Electronic Healthcare. Third International Conference, eHealth 2010, Casablanca, Morocco, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers

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Evaluation of a Semantic Web Application for Collaborative Knowledge Building in the Dementia Domain

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-23635-8_8,
        author={Helena Lindgren and Peter Winnberg},
        title={Evaluation of a Semantic Web Application for Collaborative Knowledge Building in the Dementia Domain},
        proceedings={Electronic Healthcare. Third International Conference, eHealth 2010, Casablanca, Morocco, December 13-15, 2010, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={E-HEALTH},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={Evaluation clinical practice guidelines clinical decision support system personalization knowledge modeling semantic web dementia},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-23635-8_8}
    }
    
  • Helena Lindgren
    Peter Winnberg
    Year: 2012
    Evaluation of a Semantic Web Application for Collaborative Knowledge Building in the Dementia Domain
    E-HEALTH
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23635-8_8
Helena Lindgren1,*, Peter Winnberg1,*
  • 1: Umeå University
*Contact email: helena@cs.umu.se, pw@cs.umu.se

Abstract

This paper presents the results from a qualitative evaluation study of the semantic web application ACKTUS-dementia, developed for the purpose of supporting a distributed collaborative knowledge engineering process. The main purpose of the study was to investigate whether the functionalities used for the purpose are intuitive and to what extent expert physicians are able to use the system for the purpose intended. The experts were observed when executing tasks and interviews were conducted to investigate issues and attitudes concerning integrating contextual knowledge to enrich the knowledge in the application. Results indicate that the system fulfils its purpose and is useful for capturing sources of possible misinterpretations, possible alternative interpretations and ambiguities in the domain knowledge. There was also an interest expressed to extend the system to include contextual knowledge for the international collegiums to share as a continuing medical education apart from supporting patient-centric assessments.