Title: Engineering a virtual community for breast cancer patients

Authors: Yvonne Arnold, Miriam Daum, Helmut Krcmar

Addresses: Information Systems Department (I 17), Technische Universitat Munchen Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching bei Munchen 85748, Germany. ' Information Systems Department (I 17), Technische Universitat Munchen Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching bei Munchen 85748, Germany. ' Information Systems Department (I 17), Technische Universitat Munchen Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching bei Munchen 85748, Germany

Abstract: There are several challenges in the field of community engineering in the health care domain: to achieve the greatest congruency between the patients| needs and the services of the platform, potential users need to get involved in the development process and an evaluation of the conceptualised product is necessary.

Keywords: healthcare communities; community engineering; community evaluation; web-based communities; breast cancer patients; online communities.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2005.006060

International Journal of Web Based Communities, 2005 Vol.1 No.2, pp.150 - 162

Published online: 30 Jan 2005 *

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