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

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  Outreach Award by the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, under NO1-LM-6-3502, July 1, 2009 ¨C June 30, 2010 ($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 ($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 ¨C 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 ¨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)

 

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

l  Paquette, S. & Xie, B. (2010). The relevance of elderly technology users in healthcare knowledge creation and innovation: a case study. Proceedings of the 43rd 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. (2010). Meeting older adults' health information needs through peer computer training: an innovative public library approach to lifelong learning and volunteering in later life. Paper 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).

l  Xie, B. & Bugg, J. M. (2009). Promoting older adults¡¯ e-health literacy: An innovative public library program. Paper 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 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, Montr¨¦al, 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 59th 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 106th Convention of the American Psychological Association (APA), August 14-18, 1998, San Francisco, California.

 

Last updated on January 16, 2010