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Your Name and Title: Diletta Artioli, Nurse

School or Organization Name: University of Parma

Co-Presenter Name(s): Elisa Borghi, Valeria Di Marco, Federico Monaco

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Italy

Language in Which You Will Present: English

Target Audience(s): Nurses, Practitioners, Teenagers, Patients, Mothers, Parents

Short Session Description (one line): learning about healthcare categories, ontologies and technologies by the use of a database of Emojis designed for and by nurses.

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

This is a project meant to educate and disseminate the use and sharing of healthcare information, main and peculiar issues by emojis, simple symbols included in short messages for mobiles and computers.

Three italian nurses, Diletta, Elisa and Valeria -all involved in a Master course on Case/Care Management at the Department of surgical sciences of the University of Parma- applied for an internship on e-Learning and web communication. Their goal was not only to acquire skills on e-Learning and e-moderation, but to work together on a digital health literacy project.

They found out that it was possible to deal online activities such as: brainstorming, planning and collaborating. All this came possible following shared steps and methodologies to pursue objectives and results. The three of them could work asynchronously online, from different places of Italy, in different periods of the year for an innovative and joint research project to collect and publish emoji on health, in particular about nursing. An e-Learning designer expert in healthcare field, Federico, has been their mentor.

A open project about emoji code was "forked" on a social network for geeks, github (https://github.com/PUNTOZERO/emojicode.github.io), and trainees on-line are helping each other to build an archive of emoji, based on the principal diagnosis and nursing interventions, which will be published and shared under a creative Commons Licence 4.0.

All such effort to convert emojis into Open Educational Resources to inspire healthcare professionals, patients, geeks, teens, mobile users and whoever else to adopt emoji, carefully chosen or created by professionals.

It is therefore a three level project: a reflexive learning level for the three nurses themselves; a  peer-to-peer level for whoever would like to learn on the use and design of the caremojis to communicate in a short and fast way about healthcare; a third dissemination level to learn more about the healthcare sphere.

Such emojis, named caremojis, are being divided in categories (roles, instruments, diseases, symptoms...) and are going to be chosen following keen criteria of objectivity, usability, etc...

Even though emojicare will never substitute assessment reports, health records or diagnosis, they might become valid, easily shareable and fast mean to communicate about what nurses are in charge of.

An articulated dissemination project and the call for some elegible partnerships are the next steps in order to succeed in experimenting and adopting such digital solution.

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session:    https://puntozero.github.io/caremoji.html