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Title:
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DESIGNING, IMPLEMENTING AND TESTING MULTIUSERVIRTUAL COMMUNITY WITH MS-PATIENS |
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Author(s):
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Anssi Jääskeläinen , Kari Heikkinen |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-35-5 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen) |
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Year:
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2007 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Multiple sclerosis, Virtual community, Multi-User, Activating, Regular exercising |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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229 |
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Last Page:
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236 |
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Language:
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English |
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Cover:
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Lives of the MS-patients can be lonesome and therefore we present in this paper a web-based virtual community for MSpatients
with professional-, and peer support by meaning of promoting independent physical and mental practicing as part
of occupational therapy. The virtual community called Activator is built on actual user and organisational needs and was
tested by two different pilot groups consist of actual MS-patients. MS-disease cause variable symptoms and it made them
a challenging target group, the results although, shows that the developed Activator fills every one of the major goals and
the users in the pilot groups seems to like the idea and the current implementation satisfied the management personals
too. |
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