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Internet Searching Behaviors Of Low Literacy Breast Cancer Survivors, Francisco D. Iacobelli, Ginger L. Dragon, Giselle Mazur, Judy Guitelman
Internet Searching Behaviors Of Low Literacy Breast Cancer Survivors, Francisco D. Iacobelli, Ginger L. Dragon, Giselle Mazur, Judy Guitelman
Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium
Internet searching is a popular tool for patients to find health-related information. However, low literacy individuals are at a disadvantage with respect to their ability to evaluate online health information. When using common web search engines to find health information, behaviors such as misspelling, misappropriation of words and incomplete search queries can result in inadequate results and misleading information. The goal of this research is to understand the search strategies and common mistakes that low-literacy Latina breast cancer survivors exhibit when searching for information online in order to inform future information seeking interfaces. To explore search behaviors online we asked …
Integrating Problem Solving, Coding, Mathematics, And Pedagogy, John F. Erickson
Integrating Problem Solving, Coding, Mathematics, And Pedagogy, John F. Erickson
Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium
We present a case study illustrating an integrated approach to the teaching of problem solving, computation, and mathematics. This approach combines ideas from Polya, Ross, and Moore about mathematical pedagogy with a heavy dose of computer assisted calculation in the spirit of experimental mathematics facilitated by the rapid prototyping environment of Mathematica which is ideal for an exploratory approach to learning. Essentially, students learn math and programming the same way mathematicians do research and we believe that this can scale all the way from grammar school to graduate school. To be more specific, we start with an elementary recreational math …
Guiding Us Throughout A Sea Of Data - A Survey On Recommender Systems And Its Privacy Challenges, Xiwei Wang, Marcelo O. Sztainberg
Guiding Us Throughout A Sea Of Data - A Survey On Recommender Systems And Its Privacy Challenges, Xiwei Wang, Marcelo O. Sztainberg
Faculty Research and Creative Activities Symposium
Over the past decades, the Internet has served as the backbone connecting people to others, places and things. With the sheer volume of information generated everyday, people can feel overwhelmed when having to make a selection among the multiple options that normally come up after a search or application request. For example, when searching for news articles regarding a particular topic, the search engine will present a number of results to you. When looking for some product on shopping websites, there are usually several pages of results that match the keywords. It can be very challenging for people to find …