Horeya AbouWarda

Department of Informatics
University of Zurich
Binzmuehlestrasse 14
CH-8050 Zurich

Room: BIN 2.C.10
Email: abouwarda@ifi.uzh.ch
Phone: +41 44 635 75 83
Connect: ResearchGateAcademiaLinkedIn

Work:

• Since 09/2021: Doctoral Researcher at the Information Management Research Group, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
• 07/2014 – 06/2017: Coordinator of Information Technology Department, Deanery of International Educational Programs at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt.
• 09/2012 – 06/2017: Information Technology Teacher, Deanery of International Educational Programs at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt.

Education:

• 02/2013 – 11/2016: Master of Science in Information Systems at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt.   
• 02/2009 – 09/2012: Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems at Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Egypt. 

• Social Media
• Online Communities
• Consumer Empowerment
• Digital Mental Health
• Person- and People-Centered Care

Consumer Empowerment in Online Mental Health Communities on Social Media

If you are interested in doing your bachelor/master thesis or your master's project with me in social media, online communities, or online mental health communities; or if you have any ideas for new projects - feel free to contact me.

• Fall Semester 2024: Information Management
• Spring Semester 2024: CSCW
• Fall Semester 2023: Information Management
• Fall Semester 2022: Information Management

• AbouWarda, H., Dolata, M., & Schwabe, G. (2024). How Does an Online Mental Health Community on Twitter Empower Diverse Population Levels and Groups? A Qualitative Analysis of #BipolarClub. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 26, e55965. DOI:https://doi.org/10.2196/55965
• Abou-Warda, H., Belal, N.A., El-Sonbaty, Y., & Darwish, S. (2017). A Random Forest Model for Mental Disorders Diagnostic Systems. In Hassanien, A., Shaalan, K., Gaber, T., Azar, A., & Tolba, M. (eds), Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2016. AISI 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 533, pp. 670–680. Springer, Cham. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48308-5_64