Computational Predictors in Online Social Deliberations

Computational Analysis of Collective Intelligence – Towards Automatic Detection of Rationales in Online Deliberations

The Use of Text Similarity and Sentiment Analysis to Examine Rationales in the Large-Scale Online Deliberations

To overcome the increasingly time consuming and potentially challenging identification of key points and the associated rationales in large-scale online deliberations, we propose a computational linguistics method that has the potential of facilitating this process of reading and evaluating the text. Our approach is novel in how we determine the sentiment of a rationale at the sentence level an...

Supporting Social Deliberative Skills Online: The Effects of Reflective Scaffolding Tools

We investigate supporting higher quality deliberations in online contexts by supporting what we call "social deliberative skills," including perspective-taking, meta-dialog, and reflecting on one's biases. We report on an experiment with college students engaged in online dialogues about controversial topics, using discussion forum software with "reflective tools" designed to support social del...

Measuring online health information seeking skills and its related factors in a middle-aged population

Background: Internet is an important source of online health information seeking. Middle-aged people, may face more health-threatening challenges if they lack seeking skills. Therefore, the evaluation of seeking skills on health information in middle-aged people needs to be further studied. Objectives: The purpose of this paper was to examine the Online Health Information-Seeking Skills (OHISS...

Predictors of Covid-19 Preventive Behaviors in Iranian Population over 15 Years Old: An Application of Health Belief Model

Background and purpose: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by the new corona virus. The aim of this study was to determine the predictors of COVID-19 prevention behaviors in an Iranian population based on the health belief model. Materials and methods: This descriptive analytical (cross-sectional) study was performed in 1020 people older than 15 years of age in...