Making Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help

Making Computers More Useful and More Usable

97 Useful computers which are not usable are of little help; but so are usable computers which are not useful. One of the major goals of our research is to achieve these two goals simultaneously. We claim that useful computers have to be complex systems with a rich functionality. To make these systems usable and to exploit their power, we have constructed a variety of computer-based intelligent...

Making CP-Nets (More) Useful

Preferences have been studied in philosophy, economics, psychology, and computer science and have a wide range of applications, such as e-commerce, recommender systems, decision support systems, and control of automated systems. A variety of methods have been proposed for modeling preferences. The one that I consider here is that of conditional preference networks (CP-nets). First studied by Bo...

P3P: Making Privacy Policies More Useful

M any Web sites now post privacy policies. Consumer and industry groups encourage such policies, and some jurisdictions even require them by law. Essentially, they aim to tell Web site visitors how sites will use their personal information and what privacy choices are available to them. Thus, individuals should be able to gather the information they need to use privacy-related options at the si...

Making Real-World Evidence More Useful for Decision Making.

How can the audiogram be more useful?

The Canadian Hearing and Auditory Research Translation (CHART) group is a newly formed taskforce to develop collaborative research initiatives. Initial discussions centered on diagnostic improvements for middle ear disease, auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder, tinnitus and presbycusis. Central to these discussions was the widely held view that the standard audiogram and its interpretation is ...