Alfano, Marco, Lenzitti, Biagio, Taibi, Davide and Helfert, Markus (2019) Provision of tailored health information for patient empowerment: an initial study. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech '19). ACM, pp. 213-220. ISBN 9781450371490
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Abstract
Search of “right” health information by patients/citizens is an
important step towards their empowerment. The number of health
information seekers on the Internet is steadily increasing over the
years so it is crucial to understand their information needs and the
challenges they face during the search process. However, generic
search engines do not make any distinction among the users and
overload them with the amount of information. Moreover, specific
search engines/sites mostly work on medical literature and are
built by hand. This paper analyses the possibility of providing the
user with tailored web information by exploiting the web semantic
capabilities and, in particular, those of schema.org and its healthlifesci extension. After presenting a short review of the main user
requirements when searching for health information on the
Internet, an analysis of schema.org and its health-lifesci extension
is shown to understand the main properties and semantic
capabilities in the health/medical domain. Finally, an initial
mapping among user requirements and schema.org elements is
presented in order to provide expert and non-expert user
categories with web pages that satisfy their specific requirements.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Additional Information: | Funding: This work was partially supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 754489 and by Science Foundation Ireland grant 13/RC/2094 with a co-fund of the European Regional Development Fund through the Southern & Eastern Regional Operational Programme to Lero - the Irish Software Research Centre (www.lero.ie). Cite as: Marco Alfano, Biagio Lenzitti, Davide Taibi, and Markus Helfert. 2019. Provision of Tailored Health Information for Patient Empowerment: An Initial Study. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 213–220. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3345252.3345301 |
Keywords: | Patient Empowerment; Health Information Seeking; User Requirements; Structured Data on the Web; schema.org; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Innovation Value Institute, IVI |
Item ID: | 14248 |
Identification Number: | 10.1145/3345252.3345301 |
Depositing User: | Markus Helfert |
Date Deposited: | 24 Mar 2021 15:39 |
Publisher: | ACM |
Refereed: | Yes |
Funders: | European Union Horizon 2020 programme, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), European Regional Development Fund |
Related URLs: | |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/14248 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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