[chisigmail] Call for Abstracts: HCSNet Workshop on Social Technologies Applications for Health and Medicine, August 20-21 2009, Melbourne

[Duncan.Stevenson at csiro.au]

HCSNet Workshop on Social Technologies Applications for Health and Medicine
Thurs/Friday, August 20-21 2009, Melbourne (Australia)
http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/3103

Call for Submissions and Participation

Description

A great deal of research supports the belief that social interactions affect
people's health in various ways. Online communities have added a relatively
new dimension to the lives of many people. This workshop aims to bring together
a group of researchers and practitioners from medical, social and information
technology communities to understand how social technologies might be used to
support health and health initiatives: e.g. supporting people, their families
and their communities in managing health; building and supporting communities
of health workers and medical practitioners for improved communication and
information sharing; allowing communities of health stakeholders (policy makers,
practitioners, the public) to develop effective health-related policies and
initiatives.

We intend this workshop to be a place to foster communication across the
relevant disciplines in order to design and develop effective tools and user
experience  to support online health communities.

This workshop will be held close (in time) to CollabTech 2009 (The Fifth
International Conference on Collaboration Technologies 2009), which is being
held in Sydney, August 12-14, 2009 (http://www.collabtech.org/).   This will
provide opportunities for participants (especially from overseas) to attend
both events to exchange ideas and experiences.
Audience
We hope to attract a multidisciplinary range of researchers and practitioners
from the medical, social and information technology communities working in
areas such as health, social science, and online communities related to health.

Issues of interest may include:
* support for patients vs. support for carers
* tools for developing online communities
* designing effective user experience for online patient communities
* strategies for building online health communities and developing long-term
engagement
* motivating information-sharing, content development, and contribution to policy
* health education and policy development: developing trusted content
* tailoring health information
* methods/techniques to provide motivational support
* trust, ethics, and related issues in online health-related communities

Event Format

The workshop will be held over two days, on Thursday August 20th and
Friday August 21st, 2009, in the Melbourne area (precise location to be determined).
The workshop will include invited speakers (including a HCSNet-supported
international presenter), presentations from participants and interested parties,
workshopping and development of ideas, and plenty of time for discussion.
Submission instructions are given below.

Event Outcomes

We hope the workshop will help the community to build a collective
understanding about online health and medical communities: from the health
perspective, what support can a social network provide; from the social
network community, how can they provide that support; overall, how can
such systems be deployed, evaluated and adopted. We also hope that the
workshop will build bridges across the communities (health and social
networks), and even generate a sustained interest and community around this
area. We envisage this workshop to be the first of a series.

Submission Format

Interested participants are invited to submit a position statements
(about 300 words) describing their interest in the area of health/medical
online communities, along with a short biography.

Submission is via the online submission page:
http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/node/add/submission/3103.

Note that to make a submission (or to qualify for free attendance) you need to
sign up to the HCSNet community 2 months before the event (it's free!); you can
register for HCSNet at (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/user/register).

Submissions deadline:  10th July, 2009

Publication

Submitted abstracts will be published online and also distributed to participants.
We are planning to solicit long articles after the workshop to capture the work in
workshop proceedings.

Registration Information

Registration for the workshop is free for HCSNet members that have signed up to HCSNet
2 months in advance of the event. For non-HCSNet members registration is $50 per day.
For members and non-members please follow the link below to register once registration
has opened.

Registration deadline: Friday 31st July 2009

Travel Grants

HCSNet will fund a number of travel grants to help cover the costs of travel and
accommodation for participants from outside the Melbourne area. HCSNet has also
approved a Student Support Grant to enable students to participate. The provision of
a submission as described above is a prerequisite for funding. If not all participants
can be covered, funding grants will be allocated based on the relevance of your abstract
to the workshop theme; also, students and early career researchers (in HCSNet terms,
those who have received their PhDs in the last fifteen years) will have priority.

Please ensure that you indicate at time of submission if you wish to be considered for a travel grant.

Important Dates
* Submissions deadline: Friday 10th July 2009
* Notification re: travel grants: Monday 27th July 2009
* Registration deadline:  Friday 31st July 2009
* Workshop: Thursday August 20th to Friday August 21st, 2009

Organisers

Dr Lawrence Cavedon, RMIT University and NICTA
Dr Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO ICT Centre
Dr Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre

Further information

Queries regarding the workshop can be sent to Nathalie Colineau at Nathalie.Colineau [AT] csiro.au.
Contact Lawrence Cavedon, at lawrence.cavedon [AT] rmit.edu.au   for queries related to HCSNet.

About HCSNet

HCSNet (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au) is the ARC Research Network in Human Communication Science,
and promotes interdisciplinary research in speech, language, and sonics.

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Nathalie Colineau
Senior Research Scientist
CSIRO - ICT Centre
Locked Bag 17, North Ryde 1670 NSW

Physical Address:
CSIRO - ICT Centre
Building E6B Macquarie University
North Ryde 2113 NSW
Australia
phone: (+61) 2 9325 3151
Fax:    (+61) 2 9325 3200
http://ict.csiro.au/staff/Nathalie.Colineau/index.php

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