Engineering a virtual community for breast cancer patients

Authors:
Yvonne Arnold;Miriam Daum;Helmut Krcmar
Affiliations:
Information Systems Department (I 17), Technische Universitat Munchen Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching bei Munchen 85748, Germany.;Information Systems Department (I 17), Technische Universitat Munchen Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching bei Munchen 85748, Germany.;Information Systems Department (I 17), Technische Universitat Munchen Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching bei Munchen 85748, Germany
Venue:
International Journal of Web Based Communities
Year:
2005

Citing 7
Cited 1

A spiral model of software development and enhancement

Software risk management
The dynamics of mass interaction

CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
User population and user contributions to virtual publics: a systems model

GROUP '99 Proceedings of the international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty

Online Communities: Designing Usability and Supporting Socialbilty
Entwicklung Mobiler Virtueller Gemeinschaften im Gesundheitsbereich

Mobile and Collaborative Business 2002, Proceedings zur Teilkonferenz der Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik 2002
Membership Size, Communication Activity, and Sustainability: A Resource-Based Model of Online Social Structures

Information Systems Research
Trust in Virtual Healthcare Communities: Design and Implementation of Trust-Enabling Functionalities

HICSS '04 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'04) - Track 7 - Volume 7

Power and support from the net: usability and sociability on an internet-based rehabilitation course for people with multiple sclerosis

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

There are several challenges in the field of community engineering in the health care domain: to achieve the greatest congruency between the patients' needs and the services of the platform, potential users need to get involved in the development process and an evaluation of the conceptualised product is necessary.