Biographical Sketch for Bo Xie

http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~boxie/

Teaching

l Older Adults’ Information Needs, Behaviors, and Resources

l Health Informatics

l Information Management

Research Interests

Health informatics; older adults' learning and use of computers and the Internet; computer literacy; lifelong learning; civic engagement; volunteering; social relationships; social support; online communities; health and well-being

Education

l Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York

Science and Technology Studies (STS)

Ph.D.: May 2006

l Peking University, Beijing, China

Psychology

M.S.: 1998

l West China University of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Medicine

B. Med. Sci.: 1995

Grants, Awards, & Scholarships

l A 3-year Early Career Development Award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services; July 2009-June 2012 ($387,541). Project title: Meeting older adults’ health information needs through peer computer training: An innovative public library approach to lifelong learning and volunteering in later life.

l Seed Grant from the Maryland Population Research Center, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, under Grant # 2 R24 HD4104; Spring 2009 ($15,000)

l Outreach Award by the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, under NO1-LM-6-3502, July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2009 ($40,000, with one year no-cost extension)

l Community Partners Program Grant by the University of Maryland, College Park; Fall 2007 ($4,600)

l Selected to participate in the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging Summer Institute on Aging Research, Queenstown, Maryland, July 14-20, 2007

l General Research Board Faculty Summer Research Grant by the University of Maryland, College Park; Summer 2007 ($8,750)

l Pilot student research grant through the Center for Research and Education on Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE), NIH/National Institute on Aging grant (#1P01AG17211); Sept. 2005 – May 2006 ($5,000)

l Honorable Mention in the 2005 Margaret Clark Award graduate student paper competition for the outstanding paper in anthropology and gerontology

l Herman Bouma Award from the Foundation for Gerontechnology, 2005 (EURO 1,000)

l Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Program in Science, Technology, and Society (SES-0431373); Aug. 2004 – Jul. 2006 ($12,000, with one year no-cost extension)

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

l Xie, B. (2009). Older adults' health information wants in the Internet age: Implications for patient-provider relationships. Journal of Health Communication, 14(6), 510-524.

l Xie, B., & Bugg, J. M. (2009). Public library computer training for older adults to access high-quality Internet health information. Library & Information Science Research, 31, 155-162.

l Alpay, L., Verhoef, J., Xie, B., Te’eni, D., & Zwetsloot-Schonk, J. H. M. (2009). Current challenge in consumer health informatics: Bridging the gap between access to information and information understanding. Biomedical Informatics Insights, 2, 1-10 [Full text available at: http://www.la-press.com/article.php?article_id=1390].

l Jaeger, P. T., & Xie, B. (2009). Developing online community accessibility guidelines for persons with disabilities and older adults. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 20, 55-63.

l Piper, D., Palmer, S., & Xie, B. (2009). Services to older adults: Preliminary findings from three Maryland public libraries. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 50(2), 107-118.

l Xie, B. (2008). The mutual shaping of online and offline social relationships. Information Research, 13(3), paper350. [Full text available at: http://InformationR.net/ir/313-353/paper350.html].

l Xie, B. (2008). Multimodal Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Support among Older Chinese. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(3), 728-750. [Full text available at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/119414163/PDFSTART]

l Xie, B. (2008). Civic engagement among older Chinese Internet users. Journal of Applied Gerontology. 27(4), 424-445.

l Kazmer, M. M., & Xie, B. (2008). Qualitative interviewing in Internet studies: playing with the media, playing with the method. Information, Communication and Society, 11(2), 115-136.

l Xie, B., & Jaeger, P. T. (2008). Computer Training Programs for Older Adults at the Public Library. Public Libraries. 47(5), 42-49.

l Xie, B., & Jaeger, P. T. (2008). Older adults and political participation on the Internet: A cross-cultural comparison of the United States and China. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 23, 1-15.

l Xie, B. (2007). Using the Internet for offline relationship formation. Social Science Computer Review, 25(3), 396-404.

l Xie, B. (2007). Information technology education for older adults as a continuing peer-learning process: A Chinese case study. Educational Gerontology, 33(5), 429-450.

l Xie, B. (2007). Older Chinese, the Internet, and well-being. Care Management Journals: Journal of Long Term Home Health Care, 8(1), 33-38.

l Xie, B. (2006). Perceptions of computer learning among older Americans and older Chinese. First Monday, 11(10). [Full text available at: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1408/1326]

l Xie, B. (2003). Older adults, computers, and the Internet: Future directions. Gerontechnology, 2(4), 289-305. [Full text available at: http://www.gerontechnology.info/Journal/]

l Xie, B., & Qian, M. (2000). Phenomenological differences between shame and guilt among Chinese college students. Chinese Journal of Psychology, 32(1), 105-109.

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

l Xie, B. & Pearson, G. (in press). Usability testing by older Americans of a prototype Google map Web site to select nursing homes. To appear in the Proceedings of the 43^rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January 5-8, 2010, Hawaii.

l Paquette, S. & Xie, B. (in press). The relevance of elderly technology users in healthcare knowledge creation and innovation: a case study. To appear in the Proceedings of the 43^rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January 5-8, 2010, Hawaii.

Book Chapters

l Xie, B. (in press). Perceiving an Internet community as a “Utopia”: Beliefs, norms, and resistance among Older Chinese. In P. Zaphiris (Ed.), Social Computing and Virtual Communities. Taylor & Francis.

l Xie, B., White, A. C., Stark, C., Piper, D., & Norton, E. (in press). Serving older adult health information seekers in the Internet age: The role of public libraries. In J. C. Bertot & P. T. Jaeger (Eds.), Public Libraries and the Internet: Roles, Perspectives, and Implications. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.

l Xie, B. (2005). Getting older adults online: The experiences of SeniorNet (USA) and OldKids (China). In B. Jaeger (Ed.), Young Technologies in Old Hands - An International View on Senior Citizen’s Utilization of ICT (pp. 175-204). Copenhagen, Denmark: DJOF Publishing.

l Caporael, L., & Xie, B. (2002). Breaking time and place: Mobile technologies and reconstituted identities. In J. E. Katz (Ed.), Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology (pp. 219-231). New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.

Other Publications

· Xie, B. (2008). Older adults, health information, and the Internet. ACM Interactions, 15(4), 44-46.

Refereed Conference Presentations

l Xie, B. & Bugg, J. M. (2009). Promoting older adults’ e-health literacy: An innovative public library program. Paper to be presented at the 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), November 18-22, 2009, Atlanta, GA.

l Xie, B. & Pearson, G. (2009). Prototype Google maps Web site to select nursing homes: Usability testing by older adults. Paper to be presented at the 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), November 18-22, 2009, Atlanta, GA.

l Paquette, S. & Xie, B. (2008). Making Elderly Users Relevant in Healthcare Technological Design and Development: Lessons Learned from a Case Study of a Medical Alarm Company. Paper presented at the International Federation on Ageing (IFA) 9th Global Conference on Ageing, September 4-7, 2008, Montréal, Canada.

l Piper, D., Yerushalmi, R., Palmer, S., & Xie, B. (2008). Integrating Learning, Research, and Practice: Findings from a MLS Community Engagement Project on Public Library Services for Older Adults. Paper presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference, January 8-11, 2008, Philadelphia, PA.

l Kazmer, M. & Xie, B. (2007). Qualitative interviewing in Internet studies: Playing with the media, playing with the method. Paper presented at The Association of Internet Researchers Annual Conference, October 17-20, 2007, Vancouver, Canada.

l Xie, B. “Public Libraries as Computer Training Sites for Older Adults.” Posted at the Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), January 15-18, 2007, Seattle, Washington.

l Xie, B., & Charness, N. “Technology Use among Older and Younger Chinese: A Pilot Study.” Posted at the 59^th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), November 16-20, 2006, Dallas, TX.

l Xie, B. “Learning IT Offline with Peers: How Computer Clubs Increase Information Access for Older Adults in China and the US.” Posted at the Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), January 16-19, 2006, San Antonio, TX.

l Xie, B. “An STS Study of Older Chinese’s and Americans’ Use of the Internet.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), October 20-22, 2005, Pasadena, CA.

l Xie, B. “Older Chinese in the Information Age: The OldKids Internet Community in Shanghai, China.” Presented at the Fifth International Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology, May 25-27, 2005, Nagoya, Japan.

l Xie, B. “Growing Older in the Information Age: Identity and Internet Community in Shanghai, China.” Presented at the Fourth Annual Conference of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology (AAGE), March 4-6, 2005, University of Texas at Austin.

l Xie, B. “Growing Older in the Information Age: A Symbolic Interactionist Study of Stigma and Online Community in China and the United States.” Presented at the HumaniTech Graduate Student Conference, April 24, 2004, State University of New York at Albany.

l Xie, B, “Growing Old in the Information Age: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Older Adults’ Experiences On and Off the Internet.” Presented at the MIT-RPI-Cornell STS Graduate Student Conference, February 13-14, 2004, Troy, New York.

l Xie, B, “The Impact of Information Technology on Older Chinese: A Preliminary Study.” Posted at the International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence, December 4-6, 2003, Washington DC.

l Xie, B, “Learning IT: Seniors' Experiences in the US and China.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), October 15-18, 2003, Atlanta, Georgia.

l Xie, B, “Older People, Computers, and the Internet: A Cross-Cultural Study.” Presented at the HumaniTech Graduate Student Conference, April 26, 2003, State University of New York at Albany.

l Xie, B, “The Internet & Democracy in China.” Presented at the First Annual Graduate Webshop, June 2001, University of Maryland at College Park.

l Caporael, L, Xie B. “Breaking Time and Space: Mobile Technologies and Reconstituted Identities.” Presented at the Machines That Become Us Conference, April 18-19, 2001, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

l Hsieh, S-J, Xie B, Riley, N. “People's Republic of China: Neuropsychological Performance of Elderly, Educated Adults.” Posted at The 106^th Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA), August 14-18, 1998, San Francisco, California.

Last updated on September 9, 2009