Virtual Commnities in Health Care: The Case of "krebsgemeinschaft.de"
Journal
ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin
ISSN
2372-7403
ISSN-Digital
2372-739X
Type
newspaper article
Date Issued
2002-12-01
Author(s)
Research Team
iw6-init
Abstract
This paper focuses on the process of designing, implementing and evaluating a community platform for cancer patients. Following an introduction to the situation of cancer patients in Germany we summarize our findings on cancer patients' demands for trustworthy information as well as their need for interaction with peers in similar situations. On this basis we describe the process of translating socio-technical needs into system requirements and the steps undertaken to develop a functioning community platform for cancer patients. We combine a generic iterative process model for systems' development with elements of prototyping towards an engineering process model for community platforms for cancer patients. We then describe the evaluation framework and first results.
Language
English
Keywords
Community engineering
web-based system development
user involvement
requirement engineering
website design
cancer patients
health care
virtual communities in health care
evaluation framework
CCC
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
No
Publisher
ACM
Publisher place
New York, NY
Volume
23
Number
3
Start page
18
End page
23
Pages
6
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
219249
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