- Social Media in Health Education
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
- Personal Information Management and User Behavior
University of Kentucky
2015
University of Utah
2015
Background: Compared to traditional methods of participant recruitment, online crowdsourcing platforms provide a fast and low-cost alternative. Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is large well-known service. It has developed into the leading platform for recruitment. Objective: To explore application health informatics research, specifically testing medical pictographs. Methods: A set pictographs created cardiovascular hospital discharge instructions was tested recognition. This illustrations...
Introduction: Several studies have reported that illustrations may improve patient comprehension of health communications. However, developing effective remains a challenge. To discharge instructions with illustrations, we developed computer application (Glyph) automatically converts text to pictures using natural language processing and graphics techniques.Methods: We evaluated set pictographs created for cardiovascular through recognition testing, examined illustration approaches work...