Health

Within the context of Web Science, papers coded with ‘health’ may involve the use of health data to study the spread of epidemics.  Telemedicine and online health provision is an additional feature of health in relation to Web Science. Another increasing trend, is the use of health websites facilitating online self-diagnosis of health conditions.

Related Publications:

• [WebSci2016] Duwaraka Murugadas, Sergej Sizov - Do it yourself diagnosis: a study on acquiring health-related information online
• [WebSci2017] Matheus Araujo, Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber, Fabricio Benevenuto - Using Facebook Ads Audiences for Global Lifestyle Disease Surveillance: Promises and Limitations
• [WebSci2017] James P. McCusker, Sabbir M. Rashid, Zhicheng Liang, Yue Liu, Katherine Chastain, Paulo Pinheiro, Jeanette A. Stingone, Deborah L. McGuinness - Broad, Interdisciplinary Science In Tela: An Exposure and Child Health Ontology
• [WebSci2014] Daniel Kershaw, Matthew Rowe, Patrick Stacey - Towards tracking and analysing regional alcohol consumption patterns in the UK through the use of social media
• [WebSci2015] Matthew S. Weber, Hai Nguyen - Big Data?: Big Issues Degradation in Longitudinal Data and Implications for Social Sciences
• [WebSci2015] Josh Introne, Sean Goggins - Taming a Menagerie of Heavy Tails with Skew Path Analysis
• [WebSci2015] Rebecca Nash - Considering a Wider Web?: Employing Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis in Exploration of Multiple Online Spaces
• [WebSci2015] Mengfan Tang, Pranav Agrawal, Ramesh Jain - Habits vs Environment: What Really Causes Asthma?
• [WebSci2012] Long Cheng, Lei Zhang, Jinchuan Wang - A Study of Human Flesh Search with Epidemic Models
• [WebSci2012] Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Avare Stewart - Tracking Twitter for Epidemic Intelligence
• [WebSci2012] Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Avar´ e Stewart - Tracking Twitter for Epidemic Intelligence
• [WebSci2012] Lisa Sugiura, Catherine Pope, Craig Webber - Buying unlicensed slimming drugs from the Web: a virtual ethnography
• [WebSci2013] Markel Vigo, Simon Harper - Considering People with Disabilities as ¨ Uberusers for Eliciting Generalisable Coping Strategies on the Web
• [WebSci2013] Munmun De Choudhury, Scott Counts, Eric Horvitz - Social Media as a Measurement Tool of Depression in Populations
• [WebSci2013] Elizabeth Sillence, Claire Hardy, Pam Briggs - Why don’t we trust health websites that help us help each other? An analysis of online peer-to-peer healthcare
• [WebSci2011] Janaína Gomide, Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr, Fabrício Benevenuto, Virgílio Almeida, Fernanda Ferraz, Mauro Teixeira - Dengue surveillance based on a computational model of spatio-temporal locality of Twitter.