HDL 2003: Healthcare Digital Libraries Workshop 2003

 

to be held in conjunction with ECDL 2003

 

 

21st August 2003, Trondheim, Norway

 

Workshop Chairs:

Patty Kostkova, Institute of Health Sciences, City University, London, UK

Anne Adams, UCL Interaction Centre, UCL, London, UK

 

 

 

Call for Papers 

 

 

Workshop Aims and Objectives: Discussion and Community Building

 

 

The objective of this workshop is to provide an informal forum for researchers from academia, industry and health care institutions to present their work on digital libraries in healthcare, share their experience and discuss mutual technical and user-centred interests in order to bridge the gap between academic research and industrial and real-world project needs.

Academic researchers can often provide technically brilliant solutions to theoretical problems with no applicability to the real-world systems. Real-world health care project decision makers are not involved in cutting-edge research to see how new inventions could serve the needs of real projects. User-centred research should bridge this gap but the application of this within the healthcare domain has been limited.  This workshop is aiming to bridge this gap by providing digital library researchers an opportunity to discuss and collaborate with colleagues working on real-world healthcare projects. In particular, it will focus on information management in health-care digital libraries, health care information provision on the Internet, searching and Web crawling, personalization aspects and end-user evaluation and needs for information in digital libraries.

The presentations are not expected to be directly related to existing healthcare applications but should address technical or implementation issues that need to be solved in real health care systems. By attracting researchers and decision makers from academia, industry and health care institutions, this workshop will be a unique event providing a forum for sharing both technical user-centred interests enabling post-workshop collaboration.

 

 

Topics of the Workshop: Application and User-centred Themes

 

 

The workshop will focus on two themes but is not restricted to:

 

Application Theme
  • Knowledge Management in Healthcare DL - dynamic hyper-linking, annotation, health care ontologies, coding standards, communication standards, quality tagging and quality of service, distribution issues, scalability, metadata, middleware, data exchange formats, XML, RDF, Semantic Web, Web services
  • Agent technology in health care digital libraries– Intelligent Agents, Learning User Profiles, CMAS, coordination, context and location aware agents in health care
  • Web Crawling and the Search – document clustering, search engines, context search, concept-based search, information retrieval, semantic interoperability, knowledge discovery
  • Personification and customisation – profiles, customisation of controlled vocabulary, GUI and the search engine, alert agents.
  • Using digital Libraries in Building online communities – chat rooms, moderated discussion groups, structured online argumentation protocols

 

User-Centred Theme
  • User Evaluation of Healthcare DL – content evaluation, usability and acceptability studies, GUI acceptability, qualitative and quantitative evaluation studies, user attitude towards the knowledge, studies of changes of user attitude with respect to digital libraries.
  • Case studies identifying real-world health care digital library needs, Healthcare DL applications and their implementation
  • User perceived healthcare security issues – trust, privacy, information collaboration, authentication, trading and collaboration issues, conflict resolution, decision making with partial or imperfect information.

 

 

Paper Submission

 

 

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research results or work-in-progress papers relevant to the workshop call. Submitted papers will be evaluated by the technical committee for originality, significance, technical and medical soundness and clarity of exposition. However, an important evaluation criteria will be relevance to existing healthcare systems and the diversity of authors’ backgrounds allowing a fruitful discussion at the workshop. As the objective of the event is to stir discussion between the academic and healthcare communities, submissions from healthcare practitioners are especially welcomed. 

 

Papers should follow the ACM format  (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html) and should be no longer that 6 pages including all graphics, bibliography and figures. Publishing of the workshop proceedings as a special issue in a major international journal is being negotiated.

 

Submissions should be sent to the workshop chairs Patty Kostkova (patty@soi.city.ac.uk) and Anne Adams (a.adams@cs.ucl.ac.uk) by June 12th, 2003.

 

 

Workshop Chairs Contacts

 

 

Patty Kostkova, Institute of Health Sciences, The City University, London, UK. Email: patty@soi.city.ac.uk

 

Anne Adams, UCL Interaction Centre, UCL, London, UK. Email: a.adams@cs.ucl.ac.uk

 

 

Programme Committee

 

 

Patty Kostkova, The City University, London, UK

Anne Adams, UCL, London, UK

Ann Blandford, UCL, London, UK

Rob Procter, University of Edinburgh, UK

Donna Bergmark, Cornell University, USA

Elke Duncker, Middlesex University, UK

Tony Rose, Cancer Research, UK

Michael L. Nelson, Old Dominion University, USA

Johan Bollen, Old Dominion University, USA

Simon de Lusignan, St George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK

Alexa McCray, National Library of Medicine, USA

 

 

 

Important Dates

 

 

Submission Date:  12th, June 2003  EXTENDED DEADLINE: 22nd, June 2003     

Notification Date: 11th July 2003

Camera Ready Date: 25th July, 2003

Workshop Date: 21st August, 2003

 

For more information, please contact Patty (patty@soi.city.ac.uk) and/or Anne (a.adams@cs.ucl.ac.uk)

Looking forward to your submissions J