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

拟议的研究将推进有关健康信息传播的科学知识，并为非洲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获得和利用艾滋病毒预防信息的机会，从而加强非裔美国人组织和个人在这些社区应对艾滋病毒/艾滋病流行病的能力。 该项目将通过以下目标来实现这一目标：1）描述非洲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。 该研究项目将提供有关艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防教育的设计和实施的经验证据，以及与使用信息计算机技术（ICT）进行艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防教育有关的文化挑战。 它将有助于了解目标社区如何接受针对非裔美国女大学生的艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防社交网络，以及如何改进这些工具的设计以取得最佳效果。这项研究将对目标研究群体内外的科学和健康教育产生非常深远的影响。 这些智力贡献将感兴趣的学者在通信和信息研究，软件工程，普及移动的设备，智能健康信息系统和可信计算。 该项目将使德尔塔-西格马-西塔女大学生联谊会的大学生既作为旨在传播艾滋病毒信息的社会媒体工具的用户，也作为参与性设计者。全国德尔塔-西格马-西塔女学生联谊会是一个在高等教育机构中实施推广和建立非洲裔美国妇女网络的国家和国际方案的组织，它将提供一种机制，以接触到北卡罗来纳州州立大学以外的更多大学生，从而为今后的方向和跨学科、机构间的合作提供一个网络渗透到其他北卡罗来纳州分会和更远的地方。 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，从而加强非洲裔美国人组织和个人的能力，利用创新的智能健康信息技术在这些社区应对这一流行病。

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.