Health Communities as Permissible Space: Supporting Negotiation to Balance Asymmetries

Health communities as permissible space: supporting negotiation to balance asymmetries

Online communities provide promising opportunities to support patientprofessional negotiations that address the asymmetries characterizing health services. Health Communities as Permissible Space 2 This study addresses the lack of in-depth understanding of these negotiations, what constitutes successful negotiation outcomes, and the potential impact of negotiation on offline health behaviors. A...

Supporting Knowledge Negotiation

Negotiation is an essential component of collaboration: By means of knowledge negotiation, a group of knowledge workers or collaborative learners determines what knowledge they have constructed together and accepted as a group. We develop the concept of “knowledge negotiation” as an important aspect of knowledge building and knowledge management, and then adapt CSCW support for negotiation to C...

Supporting Peer-to-Peer User Communities

The paper describes a design of a peer-to-peer system which is being developed currently to support file and service (help, advise) sharing in research groups and groups of learners. The design addresses some non-technical problems in the deployment of P2P systems, such as coping with free riders, creating closely-knit groups of users sharing common interests and trust. It describes a user mode...

Resilience for public health Supporting transformation in people and communities

Co-clustering directed graphs to discover asymmetries and directional communities.

In directed graphs, relationships are asymmetric and these asymmetries contain essential structural information about the graph. Directed relationships lead to a new type of clustering that is not feasible in undirected graphs. We propose a spectral co-clustering algorithm called di-sim for asymmetry discovery and directional clustering. A Stochastic co-Blockmodel is introduced to show favorabl...