Johnsen, Jan-Are Kolset

Biography

Dr Johnsen has a Cand Psychol degree from the University of Tromsø in 2002, and received a PhD from the University of Tromsø in 2008 under the supervision of the Department of Psychology. He has been working at the Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine since 2002.

Johnsen’s experience includes teaching courses at the Master’s Degree in Telemedicine at the Medical Faculty, University of Tromsø. These courses cover research methods/design and electronic health communication.

He is currently co-supervising 1 PhD student working on eHealth-supported behaviour change.

Projects

• Electronically mediated health communication: Use of text-based media (Phd-project, 2004-2008)
• MinHelsebiografi (2006-2007)

Publications

Peer reviewed

Johansen, M. A., Johnsen, J. -A. K., Shrestha, N., & Bellika, J. G. (2010). Symptoms from patients as the primary information source for real-time surveillance. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 160, 427-431.

Johansen, M. A., Johnsen, J. –A. K., Hartvigsen, G., Ellingsen, G., & Bellika, J. G. (2009). Bridging the gap between patients’ expectations and general practitioners’ knowledge through disease surveillance. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 150, 423-427.

Wangberg, S. C., Bergmo, T. S., & Johnsen, J. A. K. (2008). Adherence in Internet-based interventions. Patient Preference and Adherence, 2, 57–65.

Johnsen, J. –A. K. (2007). Constraints on message size in quasi-synchronous computer mediated communication: Effect on self-concept accessibility. Computers in Human Behavior, 23, 2269-2284.

Laeng, B., Mathisen, R., and Johnsen, J.A. (2007). Why do blue-eyed men prefer women with the same eye color? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 61, 371-382.

Johnsen, J. -A. K., Steinsvik, O. O., & Gammon, D. (2003). Health-care professionals’ participation in an online discussion forum: The impact on structure, content and interaction. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 22, 31-44 . 

Johnsen, J-A. K., Rosenvinge, J. H., & Gammon, D. (2002). Online group interaction and mental health: An analysis of three online discussion forums. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 43, 445-449.

Kummervold, P. E., Gammon, D., Bergvik, S., Johnsen, J-A. K., Hasvold, T., & Rosenvinge, J. H. (2002). Social support in a wired world: Use of mental health forums in Norway. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 56, 59-65.

Löhr, H., Rosenvinge, J. H., Gammon, D., & Johnsen, J. -A. K. (2002). Kan Internett hjelpe mennesker med alvorlige psykiske lidelser? Brukererfaringer i et klinisk perspektiv. Tidsskrift for norsk psykologforening, 39, 514-519

Selected other publication (book chapters, proceedings)

Johnsen, J. –A. K., & Gammon, D. (2009). Connecting with Ourselves and Others Online: Psychological Aspects of Online Health Communication. In E. V. Wilson (Ed.), Patient-Centered e-Health (pp. 26-46). Hershey, PA: IGI Global Publishing.

Johnsen, J. –A. K. (2007). Constrained text-interfaces as stressors: Measurement of perceived stress and related gender differences. Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2007, Vila Real, Portugal, 5. - 8. October.

Svendsen, G. B., Evjemo, B., & Johnsen, J. -A. K. (2006). Use of SMS in office environments. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Gammon, D., Johnsen, J. -A. K., & Wangberg, S. C. (2005). Psykisk helse på m@il. Psykologisk Tidsskrift, 8 (3), 14-17.

Evjemo, B., Svendsen, G. B., Rinde, E., & Johnsen, J. -A. K. (2004). Supporting the distributed family: The need for a conversational context. Proceedings of NordiCHI 2004 (pp. 309-312), Tampere, Finland, 23.-27. October 2004.

Svendsen, G. B., Johnsen, J. -A. K., & Evjemo, B. (2004). Do short texts imply small thoughts? An investigation of the semantic networks associated with restricted and non-restricted text production. In K. Morgan, C. A. Brebbia, J. Sanchez, and A. Voiskounsky (Eds.), Human Perspectives in the Internet Society: Culture, Psychology and Gender (pp. 127-133). WIT Press: Southampton, UK.

Svendsen, G. B., Evjemo, B., Johnsen, J. –A. K., & Bergvik, S. (2004). Listener reaction to referential form. In J. Ginzburg and E. Vallduví (Eds.), Catalog'04 - Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Dept of Translation and Philology, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 19.-21. July 2004. Available at: http://www.upf.edu/dtf/personal/enricvallduvi/catalog04/program.htm

Contact information

You can reach Jan-Are K. Johnsen at mobile telephone (+47) 414 12 887 or email jan-are.kolset.johnsen@telemed.no

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