Israel

• Yisrael Parmet Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer - Sheva

  In our research we aim to assess the feasibility of using social media data to promote wellbeing of chronically ill patients, by providing them with personalized recommendations for healthy lifestyles based on the wisdom of the crowd. We develop a model for mining social networks to construct a recommender system suggesting lifestyle changes based on the experience described in patients’ posts. We seek to leverage posts describing a patient’s daily activities and their influence on her wellbeing for characterizing different treatments and understanding what works for whom. Currently, we use Twitter and IBD to demonstrate our approach. Our group of researchers are experts in statistics and data analysis, social media and network analysis.

• Itai Sharon Migal - Galilee Research Institute, Qiryat Shemona

• Noam Shental The Open University of Israel, Raanana