BibTeX

@inProceedings{eklund-2013-challenges-189167,
	title        = {On Challenges with Mobile E-health – Lessons from a Game-theoretic Perspective},
	abstract     = {Health portals play an important role in today’s health care, and the increased mobility places demands on the portals to provide as accurate and few suggestions as possible. Often the information seekers may be in distress, lacking medical knowledge and expressing themselves in ways that make it difficult for the portal to interpret the seekers’ needs. This raises the question on how portal providers may be able both to better model, or describe, the user behaviour and to predict the impact of changes in search algorithms to address these challenges.
This paper highlights some possibilities and benefits of a theoretic framework, based on existing works on game-theoretic treatments of information retrieval and communication, to allow for both descriptive and predictive analysis of internet-based health communication. This is especially important in the context of increased mobility, demanding more accurate and fewer interactions. We also elaborate on how one of the fundamental results of game theory on equilibria may be used as a basis for improved information search. Possibly counter-intuitive, this is done not by tweaking the portal, but instead by trying to change the seekers’ behaviour towards passing more diversifying queries.},
	booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management, CIKM'13},
	author       = {Eklund, Ann-Marie},
	year         = {2013},
	ISBN         = {978-1-4503-2263-8},
	pages        = {1249--1252 },
}

@inProceedings{kokkinakis-eklund-2013-query-189552,
	title        = {Query Logs as a Corpus.},
	abstract     = {This paper provides a detailed description of a large Swedish health-related query log corpus and explores means to derive useful statistics, their distributions and analytics from its content across several dimensions. Information acquisition from query logs can be useful for several purposes and potential types of users, such as terminologists, infodemiologists / epidemiologists, medical data and web analysts, specialists in NLP technologies such as information retrieval and text mining but also public officials in health and safety organizations.},
	booktitle    = {Corpus Linguistics 2013 : abstract book. Lancaster: UCREL},
	editor       = {Andrew Hardie and Robbie Love},
	author       = {Kokkinakis, Dimitrios and Eklund, Ann-Marie},
	year         = {2013},
	pages        = {329},
}

@inProceedings{eklund-2013-mobility-189169,
	title        = {Mobility and health information searches - a Swedish perspective},
	abstract     = {Today the first point of contact between a patient and health care is often an internet health portal - not a human. There is also a trend towards increased use of mobile devices for internet searching. We present a study of the use of mobile vs non-mobile devices when accessing the main Swedish official health portal. Our findings indicate that there is a difference in not only when people search for health information, but also the type of information searched for using different devices. We conclude that further analysis is needed to understand these differences, and consequently that the same portal solution may not suit both mobile and non-mobile health information seekers.},
	booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 14th world congress on medical and  health informatics, MEDINFO 2013},
	author       = {Eklund, Ann-Marie},
	year         = {2013},
	volume       = {192},
	ISBN         = {978-1-61499-288-2},
	pages        = {1079},
}