In good company

Good Company

This is a delightful book, and in some ways an alarming one. It deals with the special entertainment films for children, produced by Mary Field for the J. Arthur Rank Organisation between 1944 and 1950. She called the book "Good Company", because her aim was to see that for a few hours each week, children should have an opportunity of "intimacy with good example", believing that "the friends yo...

Good Publication Practice for Communicating Company-Sponsored Medical Research: GPP3.

This updated Good Publication Practice (GPP) guideline, known as GPP3, builds on earlier versions and provides recommendations for individuals and organizations that contribute to the publication of research results sponsored or supported by pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, and biotechnology companies. The recommendations are designed to help individuals and organizations maintain e...

Development and the Documentation of Indigenous Knowledge: Good Intentions in Bad Company?

Am I in Good Company? A Privacy-Protecting Protocol for Cooperating Ubiquitous Computing Devices

A portable device carries important secrets in encrypted form; to unlock it, a threshold secret sharing scheme is used, requiring the presence of several other devices. We explore the design space for the protocol through which these devices communicate wirelessly, under the additional constraint that eavesdroppers should not be able to recognize and track the user carrying these devices.

In Good Company? Perception of Movement Synchrony of a Non-Anthropomorphic Robot

Recent technological developments like cheap sensors and the decreasing costs of computational power have brought the possibility of robotic home companions within reach. In order to be accepted it is vital for these robots to be able to participate meaningfully in social interactions with their users and to make them feel comfortable during these interactions. In this study we investigated how...