Editorial: Making informed choices

Making Informed Choices about Microarray Data Analysis

This article describes the typical stages in the analysis of microarray data for nonspecialist researchers in systems biology and medicine. Particular attention is paid to significant data analysis issues that are commonly encountered among practitioners, some of which need wider airing. The issues addressed include experimental design, quality assessment, normalization, and summarization of mu...

Making informed choices in social care: the importance of accessible information.

The current policy trend is to encourage greater choice in the use of welfare services. To make informed choices, people need information. The process of finding and using information has costs for individuals in terms of effort, time and material resources. These costs are different for different people and impact on their use of information in different ways. Thus, the accessibility of inform...

Playful Mobility Choices: Motivating informed mobility decision making by applying game mechanics

Motivating people to change their mobility behaviour patterns towards more sustainable forms of mobility is one of the major challenges regarding climate change and quality of life. Recently, an increasing amount of attempts to use gamification for triggering such behavioural changes can be observed. However, little is known about the actual impact of using game elements. This contribution desc...

Can Parents Make Well - Informed School Choices ?

CrowdSurf: Empowering Informed Choices in the Web

When surfing the Internet, individuals leak personal and corporate information to third parties whose (legitimate or not) businesses revolve around the value of collected data. The implications are serious, from a person unwillingly exposing private information to an unknown third party, to a company unable to manage the flow of its information to the outside world. The point is that individual...