Bio statement

PhD in Human Factors current research areas: - Human-Computer Interaction in Health Informatics - Medical Decision Making - Risk Communication, Information Visualization

Conferences

Attended Medicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 to Thursday, September 4, 2008
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Attended Medicine 2.0'09 (Toronto, Canada)
Thursday, September 17, 2009 to Friday, September 18, 2009
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Is registered to attend Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)
Saturday, September 15, 2012 to Sunday, September 16, 2012
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Accepted Abstracts

Medicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada)

Not every site needs a wiki: A conceptual framework for health Websites
Holly Witteman*, Laura O'Grady

Introduction In the early days of the World Wide Web, a Website was a Website was a Website. Sites facilitated information exchange in the form of text, images and hyperlinks and, for the most part, differed from each other only in content and aesthetic design features [1]. As the Web and its associated technology evolved, exchanges became more complex, incorporating new functions such as commerce, which enabled users to purchase items or services via the Web, and new features such as gues...

Medicine 2.0'09 (Toronto, Canada)

Apomediation and Women's Choices of Birth Place and Attendants
Holly Witteman*, Sarah Whyte, Jacqueline Bender*, Michelle Janutka, Erica Sutton, Laura O'grady, Kate Sellen, Morgan Von Tunzelmann, Carolynn Prior, Murray Enkin, Kirstin Borgerson, Nadine Wathen

Background: Many women use online communities to discuss their pregnancies and plans for childbirth. Knowledge shared and created within these groups may shape or reinforce opinions about birth place (home, hospital, birth center) and attendants (midwife, obstetrician, family physician, unassisted birth) within the broader social context of contested birth philosophies. Objective: In this study, we sought to explore the relationship between apomediation in online pregnancy communities and ...

Medicine 2.0'12 (Boston, USA)

A View of Online Communities Across Stages of Life: Current Research and Future Trends (Panel)
Jackie L. Bender*, Holly O Witteman*, Osman Hassan Ahmed*, Michael Massimi*

Online communities are virtual social spaces where people come together to share information and support, learn and collaborate with others, promote products or particular views, seek entertainment or simply to find company. When they first emerged in the 1980s, they were supported by mailing list and message board software built on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet. With the evolution of the participatory web at the turn of the century, online communities now form rapidly around and acr...

Full Paper Publications

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Risk Estimates From an Online Risk Calculator Are More Believable and Recalled Better When Expressed as Integers
Holly O Witteman, Brian J Zikmund-Fisher, Erika A Waters, Teresa Gavaruzzi, Angela Fagerlin
J Med Internet Res 2011;13(3):e54

Cool but Counterproductive: Interactive, Web-Based Risk Communications Can Backfire
Brian J Zikmund-Fisher, Mark Dickson, Holly O Witteman
J Med Internet Res 2011;13(3):e60

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Bender

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Enkin

Osman
Ahmed

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