Studies in Online Data and Health

· T. Althoff, E. Horvitz, R.W. White, Psychomotor Function Measured via Online Activity Predicts Motor Vehicle Fatality Risk, Nature Digital Medicine, 2017.

· T. Althoff, E. Horvitz, R.W. White, J. Zeitzer, Population-Scale Study of Sleep and Performance, World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017). April 2017.

• E. Horvitz and R.W. White, Editorial: Making Connections: Advancing Healthcare Research via Consumer Mobile Devices. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 2017;10:e003573 (web version)
• R. W. White and E. Horvitz. Early Signs of Lung Carcinoma in Web Search Logs: Findings and Implications, JAMA Oncology, November 2016.
• J. Paparrizos, R.W. White, E. Horvitz. Detecting Devastating Diseases in Search Logs, In Proceedings of KDD 2016.

• J. Paparrizos, R.W. White, E. Horvitz. Screening for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma using Signals from Web Search Logs: Feasibility Study and Results, Journal of Oncology Practice, June 7, 2016. doi: 10.1200/JOP.2015.010504.
• M.J. Paul, R.W. White, E. Horvitz. Search and Breast Cancer: On Episodic Shifts of Attention over Life Histories of an Illness, ACM Transactions on the Web (ACM TWEB), 2016.
• E. Horvitz and D. Mulligan. Data, privacy, and the greater good, 16 July 2015, Science 349. 253-255 (2015).
• R.W. White, S. Wang, A. Pant, R. Harpaz, P. Shukla, W. Sun, W. DuMouchel, E. Horvitz. Early Identification of Adverse Drug Reactions from Search Log Data, Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 59:42–48, 2015.
• R.W. White and E. Horvitz. Belief Dynamics and Biases in Web Search. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS), In Press.
• M.J. Paul, R.W. White, E. Horvitz. Diagnoses, Decisions, and Outcomes: Web Search as Decision Support for Cancer. In Proceedings of WWW 2015.
• R.W. White, R. Harpaz, N.H. Shah, W. DuMouchel, and E. Horvitz. Toward Enhanced Pharmacovigilance using Patient-Generated Data on the Internet, Nature CPT, April 2014.
• R.W. White, N.P. Tatonetti, N. H. Shah, R.B. Altman, E. Horvitz. Web-Scale Pharmacovigilance: Listening to Signals from the Crowd. JAMIA, March 2013.
• R.W. White and E. Horvitz. Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 27(4), Article 23, November 2009, DOI 101145/1629096.1629101.
• M. Cartright, R.W. White, and E. Horvitz. Intentions and Attention in Exploratory Health Search, SIGIR 2011, Beijing, China, July 2011.
• R. White and E. Horvitz. Predicting Escalations of Medical Queries Based on Web Page Structure and Content, SIGIR 2010, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2010.
• A. Kapoor, N. Eagle, E. Horvitz. People, Quakes, and Communications: Inferences from Call Dynamics about a Seismic Event and its Influences on a Population. Proceedings of AAAI Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Development, Stanford CA, March 2010.
• R. White and E. Horvitz. Web to World: Predicting Transitions from Self-Diagnosis to the Pursuit of Local Medical Assistance in Web Search, AMIA 2010, Washington DC, November 2010.
• M. De Choudhury, S. Counts, E. Horvitz. Predicting Postpartum Changes in Emotion and Behavior via Social Media, CHI 2013, April 2013, Paris, France.
• M. De Choudhury, S. Counts, E. Horvitz. Major Life Changes and Behavioral Markers in Social Media: Case of Childbirth, CSCW 2013, February 2013, San Antonio, Texas.
• R.W. White and E. Horvitz. From Web Search to Healthcare Utilization: Privacy-Sensitive Studies from Mobile Data, JAMIA: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, June 2012, doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2011-000765.
• A. Fourney, R.W. White, E. Horvitz. Exploring Time-Dependent Concerns about Pregnancy and Childbirth from Search Logs. In Proceedings of CHI 2015.
• M.J. Paul, R.W. White, E. Horvitz. Diagnoses, Decisions, and Outcomes: Web Search as Decision Support for Cancer. In Proceedings of WWW 2015.
• Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz. Belief Dynamics and Biases in Web Search. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS).
• M. De Choudhury, S. Counts, E. Horvitz, A. Hoff. Characterizing and Predicting Postpartum Depression from Facebook Data., ICWSM 2014, Baltimore, MD, February 2014.
• S. Yang, R. White, E. Horvitz. Pursuing Insights about Healthcare Utilization via Geocoded Search Queries, SIGIR 2013, Dublin, Ireland, July 2013.
• E. Yom-Tov, R. W. White, E. Horvitz. Seeking Insights about Cycling Disorders via Anonymized Search Logs, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2014 16(2):e65.
• M. De Choudhury, M. Gamon, S. Counts, E. Horvitz. Predicting Depression via Social Media, ICWSM 2013, Boston, MA, July 2013.
• M. De Choudhury, S. Counts, E. Horvitz. Social Media as a Measurement Tool of Depression in Populations, WebSci 2013, May 2013, Paris, France.
• R. West, R.W. White, E. Horvitz, From Cookies to Cooks: Insights on Dietary Patterns via Analysis of Web Usage Logs, WWW 2013, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2013.
• Ryen W. White and E. Horvitz. Captions and Biases in Diagnostic Search, ACM Transactions on the Web (ACM TWEB), 2013.
• Ryen W. White and E. Horvitz. From Health Search to Health Care: Explorations of Intention and Utilization via Query Logs and User Surveys, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), May 2013.
• K. Radinsky and E. Horvitz. Mining the Web to Predict Future Events, WSDM 2013, Rome, February 2013.

R. White and E. Horvitz. Studies of the Onset and Persistence of Medical Concerns in Search Logs, SIGIR 2012, Portland, OR, August 2012.

• R.W. White and E. Horvitz. Experiences with Web Search on Medical Concerns and Self Diagnosis. Proceedings of AMIA 2009. San Francisco, CA, November 2009.