Call for Abstracts

Information Science Trends: Health Information Behavior (June 8-10, 2020)

The ASIS&T European Chapter is excited to organize and lead this online event with you together!

We invite you to the online research and networking event on Health Information Behavior on June 8-10, 2020, 3 pm - 6 pm (CEST; Berlin time). For each day we will have one keynote followed by short online talks.

We invite all interested colleagues - researchers, practitioners, students - to submit extended abstracts to be published at Zenodo, an online repository for research outputs, and present their topic in an online talk (15 minutes).  

We are excited to organize and lead this online event with you together!

The event is part of the series on Information Science Trends. The events focus on a current research topic introduced by invited speakers from research and industry. 

Our first event concerned Search Engines and Information Retrieval and took place in Hamburg in April 2019.

These events will provide networking space to energetically share ideas and interests from the different fields of information science and related disciplines. During the time of Covid-19, let us hold together and network online.

List of Topics (Health Information Behavior):

This event focuses on Health Information Behavior and accepts submissions on practical projects, research or practical case studies, conceptional ideas. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• health information-seeking, health information use 
• health information literacy
• health information disclosure
• conducting health information research online
• open health data

Invited Speakers

• Diane Pennington: Health (mis)information behaviour in the Covid-19 era'
• Inez Bailey: Health literacy in practice in Ireland
• Christiane Grünloh: My Work Tool” versus “My Body, My Data”: Conflicting stakeholder perspectives on digital data access

Submission Guidelines

• Please submit your extended abstract (500 up to 1,000 words including references) in English. 
• Submission page: Click here
• Submissions are due on: May 8, 2020
• Extended Deadline: May 11, 2020
• All abstracts will be peer-reviewed. 
• Reference-Style: APA
• Template: Here is the link.

All submissions will be published with a CC-BY 4.0 International License at Zenodo repository if you provide us your consent.

Cannot Give a Talk but Want to Attend?

Participation is not restricted to those presenting. If you do not want to present your work, you may want to join and listen to the talks.

In this case, please register via: https://associationforinformationscienceandtechnologyasist.growthzoneapp.com/ap/Events/Register/9p9e7nkp 

Organizer

This event will be organized by the officers of the ASIS&T European Chapter.

Publication

All submissions will be published with a CC-BY 4.0 International License at Zenodo repository if you provide us your consent.

Contact

We are happy to answer any questions regarding this event.

Please send an email to: asist.europeanchapter@gmail.com.