Grant: Engage Grants Program

This research project with Curatio will help identify appropriate formal models for automatic semantic content labelling used for classifying social network health information from external sources and create a recommender system for providing personalized recommendations for each user, with the aim of increasing user engagement and thereby overcoming health challenges. External sources of information such as relevant and trustworthy articles, blogs, and other media content shared on diverse platforms will be included to make the Curatio platform a central point for providing information and support to the members of each Curatio community.The significance of this research is that it simplifies daily disease management by matching patients with personalized content, support and tracking from expert partner organizations. This project will help advance mobile application development and research, ideally resulting in user trials and pilot partnerships. The benefits of this project to Canada are potentially far-reaching, from demonstrating research leadership on a global stage to strengthening Canadian business presence in the worldwide market of health information sharing and private social networks.The expected outcome of this project is a prototype application that applies shared research findings from this project and provides with a substantial analysis to direct consumer deployment.