Getting the (right) message across: How to encourage citizens to report corruption

Getting Your Message Across to Your Users

Most models, theories and perspectives in human-computer interaction focus on users communicating with systems. The very name of our discipline illustrates how pervasive is the idea that users and systems are the only relevant parties involved in the process we want to design or investigate. For over a decade, the Semiotic Engineering Research Group (SERG) has elaborated an alternative account ...

Endocannabinoids: getting the message across.

T he endocannabinoids have emerged as important intercellular signals in the nervous system. The fatty acid amide arachidonylethanolamide (anandamide) is the prototypical endocannabinoid, i.e., an endogenous ligand of the G proteincoupled cannabinoid receptor in the brain, CB1, which binds the main psychoactive component of marijuana and other derivatives of Cannabis sativa (1). After a rise in...

How to get your message across.

Disseminating healthcare information: getting the message across.

Introduction It has been shown that there are often significant delays in incorporating clinical recommendations into routine practice. The biomedical knowledge base is expected to have doubled in size within the next 20 years; however, there is already evidence that even the existing volume of scientific information is unmanageable to those who use it (box 1). Its sources are diVuse and disorg...

Heather Joseph: Getting the message across

M any JCB readers will remember Heather Joseph (nee Dal-terio) from her time as Managing Editor of the ASCB's journal, Molecular Biology of the Cell in the late '90s. Her drive to " get people the information they need, when they need it, and in the form they want it " , has led her to the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), where she serves as Executive Director. SPA...