2023

1- Cost of bladder cancer in Lebanon before and after the economic collapse: a probabilistic modeling study

Elie Raad, Samar Helou, Karl Hage, Melissa Daou, Elie El Helou

International Journal for Equity in Health 2023; 22(1):77 | DOI: 10.1186/s12939-023-01885-8

2- Virtual reality for healthcare: A scoping review of commercially available applications for head-mounted displays

Samar Helou, Nour Khalil, Melissa Daou, Elie El Helou

Digital Health 2023; 9 | DOI: 10.1177/20552076231178619

2022

1- Physician eye contact in telemedicine video consultations: A cross-cultural experiment

Samar Helou, Elie El Helou, Naoko Evans, Taiki Shigematsu, Jeanine El Helou, Miki Kaneko, Ken Kiyono

International Journal of Medical Informatics 2022; 165:104825 | DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104825

2021

1- Emergency Online Learning in Low-Resource Settings: Effective Student Engagement Strategies

Victoria Abou-Khalil, Samar Helou, Eliane Khalife,  Alice MeiRong Chen, Rwitajit Majumdar, Hiroaki Ogata

Education Sciences 2021;11(1):24 | DOI: 10.3390/educsci11010024

2- Validity and reliability of an Arabic version of the Sleep Hygiene Index

Jad Costa, Samar Helou, Ghassan Sleilaty, Tarek Costa, Jeanine El Helou

Sleep Medicine 2021;80:264 | DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2021.01.040

3- Automatic Classification of Screen Gaze and Dialogue in Doctor-Patient-Computer Interactions: Computational Ethnography Algorithm Development and Validation

Samar Helou, Victoria Abou-Khalil, Riccardo Iacobucci, Elie El Helou, Ken Kiyono 

Journal of Medical Internet Research 2021;10;23(5):e25218 | DOI: 10.2196/25218

4- Vocabulary recommendation approach for forced migrants using informal language learning tools 

Victoria Abou-Khalil, Samar Helou, Mei‐Rong Alice Chen, Brendan Flanagan, Louis Lecailliez, Niels Pinkwart, Hiroaki Ogata 

Universal Access in the Information Society 2021 | DOI: 10.1007/s10209-021-00813-3 

5- Mobile sonouroflowmetry using voiding sound and volume

Elie El Helou, Joy Naba, Karim Youssef, Georges Mjaess, Ghassan Sleilaty, Samar Helou

Scientific Reports 2021;11(1):1 | DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-90659-9

2020

1- Utilitarian Redesign of Electronic Medical Record Systems

Samar Helou, Victoria Abou-Khalil, Goshiro Yamamoto, Tomohiro Kuroda

The Transactions of Human Interface Society 2020; 22(4), 361 | DOI: 10.11184/his.22.4_361

2- The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Physicians’ Use and Perception of Telehealth: The Case of Lebanon

Samar Helou, Elie El Helou, Victoria Abou-Khalil, Jad Wakim, Jeanine El Helou, Alain Daher, Charline El Hachem

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2020; 17(13):4866 | DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17134866

2019

1- Understanding the Situated Roles of Electronic Medical Record Systems to Enable Redesign: Mixed Methods Study

Samar Helou, Victoria Abou-Khalil, Goshiro Yamamoto, Eiji Kondoh, Hiroshi Tamura, Shusuke Hiragi, Osamu Sugiyama, Kazuya Okamoto, Masayuki Nambu, Tomohiro Kuroda

JMIR Hum Factors 2019; 6(3):e13812 | DOI: 10.2196/13812

2- Understanding the EMR-Related Experiences of Pregnant Japanese Women to Redesign Antenatal Care EMR Systems

Samar Helou, Victoria Abou-Khalil, Goshiro Yamamoto, Eiji Kondoh, Hiroshi Tamura, Shusuke Hiragi, Osamu Sugiyama, Kazuya Okamoto, Masayuki Nambu, Tomohiro Kuroda

Informatics 2019; 6(2), 15 | DOI: 10.3390/informatics6020015

3- Graph Databases for openEHR Clinical Repositories

Samar Helou, Shinji Kobayashi, Goshiro Yamamoto, Naoto Kume, Eiji Kondoh, Shusuke Hiragi, Kazuya Okamoto, Hiroshi Tamura, and Tomohiro Kuroda

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 2019; 20(3), 281-298 | DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2019.103955

4- Language Learning Tool for Refugees: Identifying the Language Learning Needs of Syrian Refugees Through Participatory Design

Victoria Abou-Khalil, Samar Helou, Brendan Flanagan, Niels Pinkwart, Hiroaki Ogata

Languages 2019; 4(3), 71 | DOI: 10.3390/languages4030071

5- Learning isolated polysemous words: identifying the intended meaning of language learners in informal ubiquitous language learning environments

Victoria Abou-Khalil, Samar Helou, Brendan Flanagan, Mei-Rong Alice Chen, Hiroaki Ogata

Smart Learning Environments 2019; 6(1), 13 | DOI: 10.1186/s40561-019-0095-0