Sociability aspects in e-health community: A review

Abdullah, Nurhayati; Zakaria, Nor Azazi

doi:10.1109/itsim.2010.5561576

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“…Social interactions in Tele-home-care should not be limited to interactions between healthcare service providers and patients. Involvement of relatives and colleagues is crucial as well for encouragement of better lifestyle at home (Abdullah and Zakaria, 2010). However, direct physical interactions may not always be possible due to location and timing constraints.…”

Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

EHEALTH SMART HOME ENVIRONMENT SERVICE PLATFORM - Enabling Remote Monitoring and Service Composition through Social Media

Trinugroho

Reichert

Fensli

2012

Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics

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Demographic changes with the growth of elderly populations implies a need of developing efficient technology tools in order for the patients to stay in their own home for as long time as possible feeling safe and secured, and where the medical follow up can be achieved by remote home monitoring equipment. The lack of actual international standards has the consequence of proprietary solutions being used by vendors, making interoperability difficult. On the other hand, social media has become an integral part of modern society and has changed the way people interact with one another. It can potentially be extended to support well-being at home as well. In this paper we argue that social media have the potential to play an important role in remote home monitoring and remote service composition for provisioning health-care-related services in the future. An overview of a proposed platform based on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm for interoperability between different devices is also presented.

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Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

EHEALTH SMART HOME ENVIRONMENT SERVICE PLATFORM - Enabling Remote Monitoring and Service Composition through Social Media

Trinugroho

Reichert

Fensli

2012

Proceedings of the International Conference on Health Informatics

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“…At present, the most common forms of social behavior in OCH are seeking and sharing personal experience, opinions and answers, and providing support and empathy [21]. The increasing interest in Internet and SN have made more people inquire about health-related information via virtual environments, seek out advice, exchange experiences and support from online peer networks [22]. With the role of the Internet as a platform for SN, typified by the growing interest in sites like Wikipedia, Facebook and MySpace, we can envisage more consumers seeking health-related information and advice from online peer networks [21].…”

Section: Serious Games and Health Gamesmentioning

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“…Websites can provide information to users but e-health communities are more to personal resources which allow users to get more like face-to-face situation where members in the group can interact with others who shared similar problems. "The Wellness Community, which provides "cancer support, education and hope" (http://www.thewellnesscommunity.org/mmlcommunity.a spx), is another example of an e-health community that provides emotional support, care and a forum for people in the community to share the same health concerns as the cancer survivors [22]. Healthcare consumers' social networks play a key role in their progress through healthcare journeys, and are vital sources of advice, recommendations, empathy and support.…”

Section: Serious Games and Health Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

An approach about health games to social network environment

Pinho

Paredes

Zagalo

2011

2011 IEEE 1st International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health (SeGAH)

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Abstract:The need for contact, sharing and socializing is part of human nature, so that the community's role is vital to the survival of the species. With the development of Information and Communication Technologies and their influence on society and everyday life, led the search for new ways to build relationships and create communities among people, creating virtual communities; turn social networks emerge as new forms of association that respond to more complex understanding of human interaction in a way that the wider community; these to promote your main goal, more integrated into the games as a tool of socialization. The impact of current games at various levels, as the social and economic development, and its applicability in various fields, it becomes important to analyze the contribution of the community. It is intended in this article, a description of the factors that motivate this research to a later stage to develop the proposed objectives: to analyze the new social reality and develop a model that allows adapting the health games to social games in order to foster the creation / sustainability of communities based on social networks, aiming to raise awareness of health issues, increasing knowledge and sharing of experiences of members of communities.

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Challenges of Health Games in the Social Network Environment

Paredes

Pinho

Zagalo

2012

Games for Health Journal

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Virtual communities and their benefits have been widely exploited to support patients, caregivers, families, and healthcare providers. The complexity of the social organization evolved the concept of virtual community to social networks, exploring the establishment of ties and relations between people. These technological platforms provide a way to keep up with one's connections network, through a set of communication and interaction tools. Games, as social interactive technologies, have great potential, ensuring a supportive community and thereby reducing social isolation. Serious social health games bring forward several research challenges. This article examines the potential benefits of the triad "health-serious games-social networks" and discusses some research challenges and opportunities of the liaison of serious health games and social networks.

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Sociability aspects in e-health community: A review

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

EHEALTH SMART HOME ENVIRONMENT SERVICE PLATFORM - Enabling Remote Monitoring and Service Composition through Social Media

EHEALTH SMART HOME ENVIRONMENT SERVICE PLATFORM - Enabling Remote Monitoring and Service Composition through Social Media

An approach about health games to social network environment

Challenges of Health Games in the Social Network Environment

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