| DEVELOPING COMMUNITY-PLATFORMS FOR CANCER PATIENTS-THE COSMOS-PROJECT. (2009) | |||||||||||||||
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| Online communities can –theoretically- be described as a solution for meeting cancer patients information and interaction needs. But how can such a platform for cancer patients be designed, implemented and introduced practically? Investigating this lies at the heart of the COSMOS 1-Project. In order to gain insight into the situation of cancer patients we have conducted several field studies. On the basis of the identified information and interaction needs we have derived requirements for user centric socio technical system design for cancer patients. Since already existing offers on the European/non-English-speaking internet have not met these prerequisites we have started to develop and implement a virtual community for cancer patients. Hereby two topics are of special interest. First, how can a community platform for this target group be built systematically or in other words how should a process model look like for the development and the introduction and second, what specifications has a possible technical infrastructure to meet in order to fit the needs of the cancer patients. Future subjects like ubiquitous community access, new possibilities of user identification and location related services are also of special interest since they might allow real anytime-anyplace access to the community platform as well as new, value-adding services to community members. But | |||||||||||||||
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