Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE180101579

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE180101579

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Searching when the stakes are high: better health decisions from search engines. This project aims to help people make better health decisions from search engines by improving the information that search queries return. Google is utilised by 80 per cent of Australians to search health symptoms, despite evidence showing that many often find incorrect and unreliable health information. This project expects to provide new understanding about why and how people fail to find useful health information. Expected outcomes of this project include new models and methods for evaluating high-stakes search and new search technologies to help people find and recognise high quality information to make better health decisions. This should provide significant benefits to Australian health consumers and the healthcare system.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 08-10-2018

End Date: 31-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $346,446.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Library and Information Studies | Information Retrieval and Web Search |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Health not elsewhere classified | Electronic Information Storage and Retrieval Services

Other Keywords

Electronic Information Storage and Retrieval Services | Health not elsewhere classified | Information Retrieval and Web Search | Library and Information Studies

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