Strategies to promote public engagement around deprescribing

Why should we promote public engagement with science?

This introductory essay looks back on the two decades since the journal Public Understanding of Science was launched. Drawing on the invited commentaries in this special issue, we can see narratives of continuity and change around the practice and politics of public engagement with science. Public engagement would seem to be a necessary but insufficient part of opening up science and its govern...

Recalibrating Privacy Protections to Promote Patient Engagement.

n engl j med 377;16 nejm.org October 19, 2017 treatment and overestimate its likelihood for success, paving the way for later regret if the outcome is poor. Patients who choose elective procedures while in a hot state and end up with a bad outcome may be at particular risk for regret due to commission bias. Some researchers believe that the relationship of regret to either action or inertia mus...

A neurofeedback system to promote learner engagement

This report describes a series of experiments that track novice programmer’s engagement during two attention based tasks. The tasks required participants to watch a tutorial video on introductory programming and to attend to a simple maze game whilst wearing an electroencephalogram (EEG) device called the Emotiv EPOC. The EPOC’s proprietary software includes a system which tracks emotional stat...

Public engagement and government collaboration: Theories, strategies and case studies

Blogging birds: Generating narratives about reintroduced species to promote public engagement

This paper proposes the use of NLG to enhance public engagement during the course of species reintroductions. We examine whether ecological insights can be effectively communicated through blogs about satellite-tagged individuals, and whether such blogs can help create a positive perception of the species in readers’ minds, a requirement for successful reintroduction. We then discuss the implic...