Tailor data collection to needs

Negotiability: a metafunction to tailor access to data in groupware

Functions which control the access to data in groupware should be flexibly designed by offering different options to the end users. However, conflicts might arise among different end users in the process of selecting one of these options. To support users in finding a consentaneous solution for these conflicts, we propose a metafunction called "negotiability". We propose to define and explore t...

Priority data needs: sources of national, state, and local-level data and data collection systems.

Healthy People 2000’s Priority Area 22 is focused on the need for surveillance and data systems to measure the health status of the population and to plan, implement, describe, and evaluate public health policies and programs (1). Objective 22.1 specifically addresses the need to develop a set of health status indicators appropriate for all levels of government and establish wide use of the ind...

Antiplatelet therapy: to tailor or not to tailor?

We have all been witnessing the steep upward trend in mobile device usage and their increasing sophistication which will no doubt continue. We used to use our mobile phones to make calls and possibly to send a text message, but now we check our emails, reserve cinema tickets, and, of course, read the latest journal articles via our smartphones and tablets. At Oxford University Press, we launche...

Part Three OVERVIEW OF APPROACHES FOR COLLECTION OF MORTALITY DATA V. APPROACHES TO THE COLLECTION OF MORTALITY DATA IN THE CONTEXT OF DATA NEEDS

Tailor to Fit It

This paper is a result of research activities within wearable communications carried out at the Ericsson Norway Applied research center in collaboration with the University of Oslo. The research activities are based on the conviction that the user and usability should be in focus. The research is grounded on a field study conducted to investigate a highly mobile activity, namely bike messenger ...