Information-Seeking, Finding Identity: Exploring the Role of Online Health Information in Illness Experience

Published in Companion of the 2022 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2022

Recommended citation: Patel, D., Pendse, S., De Choudhury, M., Dsane, S., Kruzan, K. P., Kumar, N., ... & Warner, M. (2022, November). Information-Seeking, Finding Identity: Exploring the Role of Online Health Information in Illness Experience. In Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 263-266). https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10161231/

This workshop aims to explore the different methods researchers have used to understand online information-seeking journeys and to identify how the internet is, or can be, used to help users make sense of, and give meaning to, their experiences. Through convening a methodologically diverse set of researchers, we hope to generate a foundation and cohesive field of inquiry and community within HCI.

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Recommended citation: Patel, D., Pendse, S., De Choudhury, M., Dsane, S., Kruzan, K. P., Kumar, N., … & Warner, M. (2022, November). Information-Seeking, Finding Identity: Exploring the Role of Online Health Information in Illness Experience. In Companion Publication of the 2022 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 263-266).