[Carolinas_asist] ASIST Webinar Invitation

[Deborah Swain]

(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 
 
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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? 
  		 	   		  
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