Disrupted clocks make us fat: it ain't necessarily so

Make it so !

In this paper, we report on a project applying participatory design methods to include people who have experience of social exclusion (in one form or another) in designing possible technologies for e-(local)-government services. The work was part of a project for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the UK, and was concerned with ‘access tokens’ that can provide personal identification fo...

Make it so ! Jean - Luc

In this paper, we report on a project applying participatory design methods to include people who have experience of social exclusion (in one form or another) in designing possible technologies for e-(local)-government services. The work was part of a project for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the UK, and was concerned with ‘access tokens’ that can provide personal identification fo...

When our body clocks run late: does it make us depressed?

It Ain’t Necessarily So: Checking Charts for Robustness

Graphics such as statistical charts are crucial tools for communicating the essence of data, but require care in their construction: a chart for a given data set could appear to tell a range of stories, depending just on parameter values used in generating the chart. We are investigating how providing an interactive history of chart-parameter manipulations could encourage people to check the ro...

Low-dose aspirin and stroke. "It ain't necessarily so".

Most clinicians have assumed that very low doses of aspirin might be effective in preventing stroke and death in patients presenting with transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) and stroke. In fact, 325 mg/day or less are often advocated despite the large numbers of well-designed, prospective controlled studies involving stroke-threatened patients that demonstrate the effect of doses greater than 975...