Study Design Affects Participant Expectations

The HIV-Brazil Cohort Study: Design, Methods and Participant Characteristics

BACKGROUND The HIV-Brazil Cohort Study was established to analyze the effectiveness of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) and the impact of this treatment on morbidity, quality of life (QOL) and mortality. The study design, patients' profiles and characteristics of cART initiation between 2003 and 2010 were described. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Since 2003, the HIV-Brazil Cohort has...

A participant-observer study of ergonomics in engineering design: how constraints drive design process.

Too often, ergonomics is relegated to being a "post-design" evaluation, leaving ergonomists little opportunity to make significant and important design changes. One way to start attacking this problem is to study the process of design and, in particular, ergonomics in design. This article describes the findings from a four-month long participant-observer study of the relationship between ergono...

Formal Design Concept And Participant Behavior Analysis For Crowdsourcing Design

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Professors' Facebook Content Affects Students' Perceptions and Expectations

Abstract Facebook users must make choices about level of self-disclosure, and this self-disclosure can influence perceptions of the profile's author. We examined whether the specific type of self-disclosure on a professor's profile would affect students' perceptions of the professor and expectations of his classroom. We created six Facebook profiles for a fictitious male professor, each with a ...

How design affeCts wellbeing