A Web-based multimedia diabetes mellitus education tool for school nurses

Author

Zhang, Zhongfei ; Knudson, Paul E. ; Weinstock, Ruth S. ; Meyer, Suzanne

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

146

Lastpage

151

Abstract

Presents a Web-based diabetes mellitus education program for school nurses, called WebDiamen. Compared with existing systems for medical education using computer-assisted technologies, WebDiamen exhibits the advantages of a powerful browsing capability, a friendly GUI, an individualized presentation schedule tailored to each user based on their special browsing interests, powerful online processing and annotation capabilities, and powerful querying capabilities. The system is being evaluated for school nurses in Onondaga County, NY, USA

Keywords

biomedical education; courseware; graphical user interfaces; health care; information resources; medical computing; multimedia computing; CAI; GUI; Onondaga County, NY, USA; WebDiamen; World Wide Web-based educational program; annotation; browsing capability; computer-assisted medical education; diabetes mellitus; individualized presentation schedule; multimedia education tool; online processing; querying capabilities; school nurses; user interests; Computer science; Computer science education; Diabetes; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Educational technology; Graphical user interfaces; Medical services; Multimedia databases; Pediatrics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2001. CBMS 2001. Proceedings. 14th IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Bethesda, MD

ISSN

1063-7125

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1004-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2001.941712

Filename

941712