TrueHealth 2023: Workshop on Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing ICWSM Limassol, Cyprus, June 5, 2023 |
Conference website | https://truehealth.disco.unimib.it/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=truehealth2023 |
Submission deadline | March 27, 2023 |
In recent years, people have increasingly referred to the Web and social media as sources of information about health-related problems and solutions, as confirmed by the U.S. Pew Research Center, and other European and international studies. Although, on the one hand, these platforms favor easier and more direct access to information sources by users without the intermediation of experts, on the other hand, it is precisely such democratization of health information that constitutes a potential danger for people. As we have seen especially in the last period, linked to the pandemic, the proliferation of false information, conspiracy theories, and unreliable remedies risk compromising the health not only of individuals but that of the community as a whole.
From this perspective, it becomes necessary to study and propose technological solutions to help users come into contact with genuine information, especially in a critical domain such as health, for social well-being.
To this end, it is essential to promote research of an interdisciplinary nature, involving computer scientists, physicians, lawyers, and communication experts who can address the problem of health misinformation from different points of view by combining their expertise.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- We welcome Long (8 pages) and Short (4 pages) papers - excluding references (11 pages max with references and ethics statement). The Long and Short papers will be published in ICWSM Workshop proceedings (http://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/).
List of Topics
- Consumer Health Search (CHS) and genuine information access;
- Assessing the genuineness of Online Health Information (OHI);
- Debunking health misinformation;
- Fake news/rumors and healthcare;
- Measures, evaluation methods, and datasets for health misinformation detection;
- Health misinformation detection;
- Health literacy and information genuineness;
- Fact-checking in Online Health Information (OHI);
- Misinformation and public opinion on health;
- Relationship between access to non-genuine information and danger to public health;
- Relationship between psychological characteristics and perceptions of health misinformation;
- Techniques for accessing and retrieving genuine Online Health Information (OHI).
Committees
Program Committee
- Lorraine Goeuriot, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
- Sanda Harabagiu, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
- Liadh Kelly, Maynooth University, Ireland
- Dongwon Lee, Penn State: The Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Italy
- Michael Sirivianos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
- Angelo Spognardi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Bei Yu, Syracuse University, USA
- Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Organizing committee
- Gabriella Pasi (Full Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Rishabh Upadhyay (Research Fellow), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
- Marco Viviani (Associate Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Venue
The workshop will be held in ICWSM 2023, the 17th International Conference on Web and Social Media, Limassol, Cyprus
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to marco.viviani@unimib.it