[AISWorld] CFP Health Informatics Workshop at iConference 2018

Lionel Robert lprobert at umich.edu
Fri Dec 29 07:10:37 EST 2017


2018 iConference <http://ischools.org/the-iconference/>, Sunday, March 25 –
Wednesday, March 28, 2018, Sheffield, UK

*Towards Meaningful Engagement: Challenges and Opportunities to
Facilitating Information Flow and Use to Support Health and Wellness
<http://ischools.org/the-iconference/program/workshops/#workshop8>  – *Sunday,
March 25, 2018, 13:30 to 17:30


*Organizers:*Charles Senteio, PhD, MSW, MBA
Assistant Professor, Rutgers University School of Communication &
Information
Department of Library and Information Science, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Christine T. Wolf, JD, PhD
Research Staff Member, IBM Research
Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA

Despite rapid advances in health information-gathering technologies
barriers persist between patients or health consumers and health care
providers in not only *sharing* health information, but also in
facilitating *valuable engagement and use* of health information. We will
hold a half-day workshop at iConference 2018 to bring together a diverse
range of participants from around the world to identify barriers to, and
opportunities for, information sharing to support health and wellness. We
focus on three workshop themes (health informatics; data analytics; and
user experience design) to discuss the ongoing challenges in this area. We
are interested in using this workshop to provide an arena for discussions
about how to increase patient engagement through information use, given the
rapid advances in health technologies, the diverse stakeholders implicated
in the health context, and the ongoing challenges of designing for
engagement.

The workshop is organized around *three themes*:

   1. *Clinical Care Delivery* – identifying facilitators of information
   flow and information needs at the point of care with a particular emphasis
   on emerging technology;
   2. *Data Analytics* – considering questions that arise from
   incorporating information gleaned from multiple and disparate data streams
   (e.g., technical feasibility; utility and quality of data sources;
   limitations of partial and incomplete data; risk of algorithmic bias);
   3. *User Experience Design* – considering the unique design challenges
   of increasing meaningful engagement and information flow in the health
   context, given the complexity of health and wellness information (e.g.,
   challenges of health literacy and numeracy) as well as designing user
   experience given the considerable diversity of users (e.g., providers,
   patients, caregivers).

All interested researchers, graduate students, clinicians, and information
science professionals are invited to submit a position paper (1200 word
limit) in which they describe the topic they propose to discuss and how it
relates to one or more of the three workshop themes. Interested individuals
should *submit their proposa*l to HealthInformatics.iConf2018 at senteio.com
 by *January 21, 2018 11:59pm GMT*. Position papers should clearly indicate
applicability to *one or more of the three* workshop themes and should
include the following *three sections*:

   1. *Topic/Project*: indicate if the proposal describes a research
   project or practitioner experience. If proposal is part of a research
   project describe the topic and context, include methods and stage of the
   project. If the proposal describes practitioner experience, discuss
   relevancy to the workshop in context of the work.
   2. *Tie to Themes*: state how the proposal relates to one or more of the
   workshop themes
   3. *Goals*: state what you hope to get out of the workshop, indicate if
   there are other themes you would like to interface with in group breakouts.


Download
<http://charlessenteio.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/iConf-2018-Health-Informatics-Workshop_Call-For-Proposals.pdf>
the
full Call for Proposals.

Best regards,

Lionel


*New Paper(s): Robots are Here...:) *

You, S., Ye, T., Robert, L. P. (2017). *Team Potency and Ethnic Diversity
in Robot-Supported Dyadic Teams*, *Proceedings of the 38th International
Conference on Information Systems* (*ICIS 2017*), Dec 10-13, Seoul, Korea.
Link to copy provided by the author http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138124.

You, S. and Robert, L. P. (accepted in 2017). *Emotional Attachment,
Performance, and Viability in Teams Collaborating with Embodied Physical
Action (EPA) Robots*, *Journal of the Association for Information Systems*,
(*JAIS*), link to the preprint version http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/136918.

You, S. and Robert, L. P. (2017). *Teaming Up with Robots: An IMOI
(Inputs-Mediators-Outputs-Inputs) Framework of Human-Robot Teamwork*,
International Journal of Robotic Engineering, (*IJRE*), 2(3), link to the
preprint version http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138192.

*Robert, L. P.* (2017). *The Growing Problem of Humanizing Robots*,
*International
Robotics & Automation Journal,* (*IRAJ*), 3(1), Article 43,
http://dx.doi.org/10.15406/iratj.2017.03.00043, link to the author's copy
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/138018.


Lionel P. Robert Jr.
Associate Professor
School of Information <https://www.si.umich.edu/people/lionel-robert>
Core Faculty, Robotics Institute <https://robotics.umich.edu/core-faculty/>
Director of MAVRIC <https://mavric.si.umich.edu>
Co-Director of SIT Lab
University of Michigan
Email: lprobert at umich.edu
Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/lionelrobert/
MAVRIC: https://mavric.si.umich.edu



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