EAGER: Collaborative Research: Developing a Culturally Compelling Social Network Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention for African American College Students

这项拟议的研究将促进关于健康信息传播的科学知识，并为非裔美国女大学生社区设计适当的社交媒体工具。该项目的目标是扩大艾滋病毒预防信息的获取和利用，从而加强非洲裔美国人组织和个人应对这些社区艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病的能力。该项目将通过以下目标实现这一目标：1)描述非裔美国女大学生构建其文化/种族身份的方式；2)确定这些身份与目标用户群体使用智能健康信息技术和社交网络系统之间的关系。该研究项目将提供关于艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防教育的设计和实施的经验证据，以及与利用信息计算机技术(ICT)进行艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防教育有关的特定文化挑战。它将有助于了解目标社区如何接受以非裔美国女大学生为目标的预防艾滋病毒/艾滋病的社交网络，以及如何改进这种工具的设计，以实现最佳效果。这项研究将对目标研究社区内外的科学和健康教育产生非常深远的影响。这些智力贡献将使通信和信息研究、软件工程、普及移动设备、智能健康信息系统和可信计算的学者感兴趣。该项目将使Delta Sigma Theta联谊会的大学生成为旨在传播艾滋病毒信息的社交媒体工具的用户和参与式设计者。全国德尔塔西格玛女子联谊会是一个拥有国家和国际项目的组织，在高等教育机构中为非裔美国女性提供外展和网络联系，它将提供一种机制，接触到北卡罗来纳州立大学以外的更多大学生-从而为未来的方向和跨学科、跨机构的合作提供到北卡罗来纳州其他分会和其他分会的网络渗透。更具体地说，这项研究是为了扩大艾滋病毒预防信息的获取和利用，从而加强非裔美国人组织和个人利用创新的智能卫生信息技术应对这些社区的流行病的能力。

The proposed research will advance scientific knowledge about health information dissemination and the design of appropriate social media tools for the African American female college student community. The goal of this project is to broaden access to and utilization of HIV prevention information, thereby strengthening African American organization and individual capacity to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in these communities. The project will achieve this goal the following aims: 1) Describe the ways in which African American female college students construct their cultural/racial identities; 2) Identify the relationship between these identities and the use of smart health information technology and social networking systems by the target user group. The research project will provide empirical evidence on the design and implementation of HIV/AIDS preventive education, as well as the culturally-specific challenges related to the use of Information Computer Technology (ICT) for HIV/AIDS preventive education. It will contribute to understanding how social networks targeting African American female college students for HIV/AIDS prevention are received by the target community and how to improve the design of such tools for optimal effectiveness. This research will have very far-reaching implications for science and health education within and beyond the target research study community. These intellectual contributions will be of interest to scholars in communication and information studies, software engineering, pervasive mobile devices, and smart health information systems and trustworthy computing. The project will engage college students in the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority as both users and participatory designers of social media tools intended to disseminate HIV information. The National Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, an organization with national and international programs for outreach and networking African American women in institutes of higher education, will offer a mechanism to reach additional college students beyond the physical locale of North Carolina State University - thereby providing a network penetration to other North Carolina chapters and beyond for future direction and interdisciplinary, inter-institutional collaborations. More specifically, this research is to broaden access to and utilization of HIV prevention information, thereby strengthening African American organization and individual capacity to address the epidemic in these communities using innovative smart health information technologies.