Ting-Wei Chiang

Cornell University | CU · Information Science Program

COVID-19 has been a sustained and global crisis with a strong continual impact on daily life. Staying accurately informed about COVID-19 has been key to personal and communal safety, especially for essential workers---individuals whose jobs have required them to go into work throughout the pandemic---as their employment has exposed them to higher r...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, local news organizations have played an important role in keeping communities informed about the spread and impact of the virus. We explore how political, social media, and economic factors impacted the way local media reported on COVID-19 developments at a national scale between January 2020 and July 2021. We construc...

Background: Real-time global mental health surveillance is an urgent need for tracking the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Objective: This study aimed to use Google Trends data to investigate the impact of the pandemic on the population mental health through three keyword searches indicating the varied extent of mental distress, namel...

BACKGROUND Real-time global mental health surveillance is urgently needed for tracking the long-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to use Google Trends data to investigate the impact of the pandemic on global mental health by analyzing three keywords indicative of mental distress: “insomnia,” “depression,” and “suicid...

Background: There are numerous mobile apps for tracking work hours, but only a few of them record work hours automatically instead of relying on manual logging. No apps have been customized for medical staff, whose work schedules are highly complicated as they have both regular hours and on-call duties. Objective: The specific aims of this study...