Dr. Bo Xie¡¯s Personal Webpage

 

Current Position

(August 2006 ~ Present):

Bo Xie, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

College of Information Studies

University of Maryland

College Park, MD 20742

Office: 2117G Hornbake, South Wing

Phone: 1-301-405-8617

Email: boxie@umd.edu

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

 

 

Teaching

l  Older Adults¡¯ Information Needs, Behaviors, and Resources [Syllabus for Spring 2011]

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

l  National Institute on Aging of NIH R01 grant. Project title: Improving older adults¡¯ e-health literacy with collaborative versus individualistic computer training (1R01AG041284-01); 08/01/2011-07/31/2014. PI. $898,682.

l  University of Maryland        ADVANCE Interdisciplinary and Engaged Research Seed Grant Program. Project title: Developing effective H1N1 influenza vaccine risk communication messages to improve vaccine uptake among older adults. Co-PI. $20,000.

l  National Network of Libraries of Medicine Express Outreach Project Award, with funding from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No NO1-LM-6-3502. April 2011. PI ($6,000)

l  National Network of Libraries of Medicine Training Award, with funding from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No NO1-LM-6-3502. April 2010. PI ($1,000)

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. PI.

l  National Network of Libraries of Medicine Outreach Award with funding from the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, under NO1-LM-6-3502, July 1, 2009 ¨C June 30, 2010. PI ($40,000)

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

l  National Network of Libraries of Medicine Outreach Award, with funding from the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, under NO1-LM-6-3502, July 1, 2007 ¨C June 30, 2009. PI ($40,000, with one year no-cost extension)

l  Community Partners Program Grant by the University of Maryland, College Park; Fall 2007. PI ($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. PI ($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 ¨C 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 ¨C Jul. 2006 ($12,000, with one year no-cost extension). Co-PI.

 

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles [Click here to view Summaries]

1.    Xie, B. (in press). Improving older adults' e-health literacy through computer training using NIH online resources. Library & Information Science Research.

2.    Nan, X., Xie, B., & Madden, K. (in press). Acceptability of the H1N1 vaccine among older adults: the interplay of message framing and perceived vaccine safety and efficacy. Health Communication.

3.    Chen, Y., Wen, J., & Xie, B. (in press). ¡°I communicate with my children in the game¡±: mediated intergenerational family relationships through a social networking game. Journal of Community Informatics.

4.    Xie, B., Watkins, I., Golbeck, J., & Huang, M. (in press). Understanding and changing older adults¡¯ perceptions and learning of social media. Educational Gerontology. [Preprint full text in PDF]

5.    Xie, B. (2011). Effects of an e-health literacy intervention for older adults. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 13(4):e90. Full text: http://www.jmir.org/2011/4/e90/

6.    Xie, B. (2011). Experimenting on the impact of learning methods and information presentation channels on older adults¡¯ e-health literacy. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 62(9), 1797-1807. [Preprint full text in PDF]

7.    Xie, B. (2011). Older adults, e-health literacy, and collaborative learning: An experimental study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 62(5): 933-946 [Preprint full text in PDF]

8.    Xie, B., Druin, A., Fails, J., Massey, S., Golub, E., Franckel, S., & Schneider, K. (2010). Connecting generations: developing co-design methods for older adults and children. Behaviour & Information Technology. First published on: 15 July 2010 (iFirst). DOI: 10.1080/01449291003793793

9.    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.

10.         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. [PMCID: PMC2818317; NIHMSID: NIHMS136066; Full-text freely available in PubMed:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2818317/?tool=pubmed;
PDF:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2818317/pdf/nihms136066.pdf]

11.         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 freely available at: http://www.la-press.com/article.php?article_id=1390].

12.         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.

13.         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.

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

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

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

17.         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.

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

19.         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.

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

21.         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.

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

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

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

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

 

Papers Published in Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings [Click here to view Summaries]

 

26.         Xie, B., Yeh, T., Walsh, G., Watkins, I., & Huang, M. (2012). Co-designing an e-health tutorial for older adults. In Proceedings of iConference 2012, February 7-10, 2012, Toronto.

27.         Huang, M., Hansen, D., & Xie, B. (2012). Older adults¡¯ online health information seeking behavior. In Proceedings of iConference 2012, February 7-10, 2012, Toronto.

28.         Kules, B. & Xie, B. (2011). Older adults searching for health information in MedlinePlus ¨C an exploratory study of faceted online search interfaces. In Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). October 9-13, 2011, New Orleans, LA.

29.         Xie, B., Yeh, T., Walsh, G., Watkins, I., & Huang, M. (2011). Co-designing contextual tutorials for older adults on searching health information on the Internet. In Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). October 9-13, 2011, New Orleans, LA.

30.         T. Yeh, T. Chang, B. Xie, G. Walsh, K. Wongsuphasawat, I. Watkins, M. Huang, L. Davis, and B. Bederson. (2011). Creating contextual help for GUIs using screenshots. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), Santa Barbara, CA, October 16-19, 2011.

31.         Xie, B., Wang, M., & Feldman, R. (2011). Preferences for health information and decision-making: development of the Health Information Wants (HIW) questionnaire. In Proceedings of iConference 2011, February 8-11, 2011, Seattle. [Best Paper Award]

32.         Xie, B., Watkins, I., & Huang, M. (2011). Making Web-based multimedia health tutorials senior-friendly: design and training guidelines. In Proceedings of iConference 2011, February 8-11, 2011, Seattle.

33.         Chong, E. & Xie, B. (2011). The use of theory in social studies of Web 2.0. In Proceedings of the 44rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January 4-7, 2011, Hawaii.

34.         Xie, B., Wang, M., Feldman, R., & Zhou, L. (2010). Health information and decision-making preferences in the Internet age: a pilot study using the Health Information Wants (HIW) Questionnaire. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (pp. 610-619). November 11-12, 2010, Arlington, VA. doi:10.1145/1882992.1883090

35.         Xie, B., Watkins, I., & Huang, M. (2010). Older adults¡¯ perceptions and use of Web-based multimedia health tutorials. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM International Health Informatics Symposium (pp. 565-574). November 11-12, 2010, Arlington, VA. doi:10.1145/1882992.1883085

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

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

 

Invited Book Chapters [Click here to view Summaries]

38.         Xie, B., Huang, M., & Watkins, I. (in press). Technology and retirement life: A systematic review of the literature on older adults and social media. In M. Wang (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Retirement. Oxford University Press. [Accepted manuscript in PDF]

39.         Xie, B. (2010). Perceiving an Internet community as a ¡°Utopia¡±: Beliefs, norms, and resistance among Older Chinese. In P. Zaphiris & C. S. Ang (Ed.), Social Computing and Virtual Communities (pp. 243-262). Taylor & Francis.

40.         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.

41.         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 [Click here to view Summaries]

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

 

Refereed Conference Presentations

43.      Xie, B. (2011). A public library-based approach to improving older adults¡¯ e-health literacy. To be presented at the 64th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), November 18-22, 2011, Boston, MA.

44.      Xie, B., Wang, M., Feldman, R., & Zhou*, L. (2011). Measuring the relationship between age and preferences for health information and decision-making. To be presented at the 64th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), November 18-22, 2011, Boston, MA.

45.      Xie, B., Yeh, T., Walsh*, G., Watkins*, I., & Huang*, M. (2011). Co-designing an integrated e-tutorial tool to improve older adults' e-health literacy. To be presented at the 64th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), November 18-22, 2011, Boston, MA.

46.      Watkins, I. & Xie, B. (2011). Accessibility of health-related social media sites for older adults. To be presented at the 64th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), November 18-22, 2011, Boston, MA.

47.      Nan, X., Xie, B., & Madden, K. (2011). Acceptability of the H1N1 vaccine among older adults: the interplay of message framing and perceived vaccine safety and efficacy. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk Division). St. Louis, MO, August 11-13, 2011.

48.      Xie, B. (2010). Older adults, e-health literacy, & collaborative learning. Presented at the 2nd Annual Health Literacy Research Conference, Bethesda, Maryland, October 18-19, 2010.

49.      Xie, B., Watkins, I., & Huang, M. (2010). Older adults, health literacy, and Web-based multimedia health tutorials. Presented at the 2nd Annual Health Literacy Research Conference, Bethesda, Maryland, October 18-19, 2010.

50.      Xie, B. (2010). Improving older adults¡¯ e-health literacy through collaborative learning. Presented at The Gerontological Society of America's 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 19-23, 2010.

51.      Xie, B., Watkins, I., & Huang, M. (2010). Usability testing of Web-based multimedia health tutorials by older adults. Presented at The Gerontological Society of America's 63rd Annual Scientific Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 19-23, 2010.

52.      Xie, B. (2010). Meeting older adults' health information needs through peer computer training: an innovative public library approach to lifelong learning and volunteering in later life. Presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference, January 12-15, 2010, Boston, MA (as part of the Panel on Collaborative Approaches to Training the 21st Century LIS Workforce: Spotlight on Projects Recently Funded By IMLS).

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

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

55.      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. Presented at the International Federation on Ageing (IFA) 9th Global Conference on Ageing, September 4-7, 2008, Montr¨¦al, Canada.

56.      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. Presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Annual Conference, January 8-11, 2008, Philadelphia, PA.

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

58.      Xie, B. ¡°Public Libraries as Computer Training Sites for Older Adults.¡± Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE), January 15-18, 2007, Seattle, Washington.

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

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

61.      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.

62.      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.

63.      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.

64.      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.

65.      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.

66.      Xie, B, ¡°The Impact of Information Technology on Older Chinese: A Preliminary Study.¡± Presented at the International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence, December 4-6, 2003, Washington DC.

67.      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.

68.      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.

69.      Xie, B, ¡°The Internet & Democracy in China.¡± Presented at the First Annual Graduate Webshop, June 2001, University of Maryland at College Park.

70.      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.

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

 

Invited talks

72.      Xie, Bo. (2011). Invited talk at the 2011 UNCF Special Programs Corporation (UNCFSP) and National Library of Medicine (NLM) eHealth ACCESS Meeting for HBCUs and Community Partners. June 13, 2011. Bethesda, Maryland.

73.      Xie, B. (2010). Invited talk at the FDA Medical Device Technology Innovation Partnership (MD-TIP) Project Workshop. October 26, 2010. Silver Spring, Maryland.

74.      Xie, B. (2010). Invited talk at the Health Informatics Pulse event. October 24, 2010. Rockville, Maryland.

75.      Xie, B. (2010). Invited talk at the National Institutes of Health Workshop on Personal Motion Technologies for Healthy Independent Living. Bethesda, Maryland. June 22-24, 2010.

76.      Xie, B. (2010). Invited talk at the e-Chicago 2010 annual conference. Chicago, Illinois. May 1, 2010.

77.      Xie, B. (2010). Invited talk at the Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland. College Park, Maryland. January 27, 2010.

78.      Xie, B. (2007). Invited talk at the American Library Association ¡°Libraries, Older Adults & Technology¡± Pre-conference. Washington DC. June 22, 2007.

 

Workshops Organized:

79.      Xie, B. (2011). ¡°Consumer Health Informatics Workshop.¡± 28th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium, College Park, Maryland. May 25-26, 2011. [Click here for more information]

80.      Xie, B. & Paquette, S. (2010). Annual National Initiative for Care of the Elderly (NICE) Knowledge Exchange: Social Media for Creating Networks and Sharing Knowledge Workshop. Toronto, Canada. June 28, 2010.

81.      Xie, B. & LeRouge, C. (2010). ¡°Consumer Health Informatics Workshop.¡± 27th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium, College Park, Maryland. May 2010.

82.      Hansen, D. & Xie, B. (2009). ¡°Consumer Health Informatics Workshop.¡± 26th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium, College Park, Maryland. May 2009.

83.      Xie, B. & Hansen, D. (2008). ¡°Consumer Health Informatics Workshop.¡± 25th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium, College Park, Maryland. May 2008.

84.      Xie, B. (2007). ¡°Health Informatics in An Aging Population.¡± 24th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Lab Symposium, College Park, Maryland. May 2007.

 

 

Last updated on November 7, 2011