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Community-Based Social Media for Low-Income Pediatric Asthma Patients

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Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology (ICHIT 2012)

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The social support has shown positive influence on self-management of chronic illness. With the advance of technology, there have been researches on the role of Social Media in healthcare. In this paper, we propose a community-based Social Media system, called Asthma411 for low-income children with asthma. Asthma411 is based on Short Message System (SMS) of cell phone because it is relatively inexpensive and it is ubiquitous. Because it is a community-based social media, it is tightly coupled with the real world. Though the traditional social media can share only general information for healthcare, Asthma411 allows people to watch the children with asthma and report their symptoms in real time, and makes it possible for people around the children to manage or help the children in asthma exacerbation. Due to the features of being ubiquitous, real time monitoring and caring of the children with asthma, Asthma411 is an advanced and proactive social media for chronic healthcare.

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  1. Computer Engineering, Mokpo National University, Jeonnam, South Korea

    Jongmyung Choi

  2. School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Rosa I. Arriaga

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Hannam University, 70 Hannamro, Daedeuk-gu, Daejeon, Korea

    Geuk Lee

  2. Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

    Daniel Howard

  3. University of Warsaw and Infobright Inc., Poland

    Dominik Ślęzak

  4. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sang JI University, Wonju, Kangwon, Korea

    You Sik Hong

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Choi, J., Arriaga, R.I. (2012). Community-Based Social Media for Low-Income Pediatric Asthma Patients. In: Lee, G., Howard, D., Ślęzak, D., Hong, Y.S. (eds) Convergence and Hybrid Information Technology. ICHIT 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 310. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32692-9_27

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