From Laura.Bellinger at beaumont.org Wed Jul 13 09:40:36 2016 From: Laura.Bellinger at beaumont.org (Bellinger, Laura) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:40:36 +0000 Subject: [Carolinas_asist] Your Email storage is almost full. Message-ID: Your email account has used 23.7 GB (95%) of 25 GB. You will be unable to send and receive messages if you do not reset your account storage space to a higher limit. Click to reset and validate your account. Mail Desk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From swainham at msn.com Wed Jul 20 15:57:22 2016 From: swainham at msn.com (Deborah Swain) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:57:22 -0400 Subject: [Carolinas_asist] ASIST Webinar Invitation Message-ID: (pardon any duplicate posts) Greetings, friends in the Carolinas ASIS&T chapter: As we look to Fall semester and the 2016-17 school year, please share any suggestions for CC: ASIST programs or events. Best of luck to everyone going to Copenhagen! Meanwhile, I look forward to presenting a Webinar for ASIS&T this Friday, July 22 at noon. I hope you can attend. I will be discussing Health Informatics tools and usability studies. Sponsored by SIG-HLTH (Health Special Interest Group) Please feel free to share information with colleagues and students. Details are below. Webinars are free to ASIS&T members and $15 to non-members. Archived at www.asis.org later, I believe. Have a cool summer whenever and wherever possible. Best wishes, Deborah -- Preparing Health Informatics Tools for Usability Study Research Information science has a supportive user-orientation and technology research background that make working in usability or human factors seem natural. In addition, human-computer interactions have been studied by IS for years. Is the user experience effective? What are the issues? Are search results useful? Cognitive psychology and ergonomics give us methods to use in researching usability. The ASIST (American Society for Information Science and Technology)?s Special Interest Group (SIG) on Health (HLTH) is sponsoring a webinar on July 22, 2016 on ?PreparingHealth Informatics Tools for Usability Study Research.? For information on GoToMeeting links and registration, go to: https://www.asist.org/events/webinars/preparing-health-informatics-tools-for-usability-study-research/. It is a lunchtime webinar starting at noon ET. (Free to ASIS&T members; $15 for non-members.) Dr. Deborah Swain, Associate Professor, North Carolina Central University (NCCU), School of Library and Information Sciences, will share information on usability studies in health informatics from 2014-2016 that looked at diabetes, heart disease, and migraine headaches. Findings are being collected for improving the designs of decision support and expert system prototypes. Student, consultant, and faculty projects can use open source or educational software to build similar tools for health assessment without diagnosing?which is not our role. User responses have been informative in pilot projects. Building the back-end data analytics will be subject-based and may improve the distribution of health information. This webinar will describe research with graduate students and early proposals for front-end tools to improve decision making when searching for health information. There is a need for focus and decision support in searching large medical and health care databases, PUB MED, the web, and big data stores or warehouses. Why not a front end to search tools that helps the user determine healthcare areas of personal interest to search? If we provide a front-end tool, is it usable and well designed for the user experience? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: