Talk About Talking About Constitutional Law

What I talk about when I talk about health law.

Things to Talk About When Talking About Things

This commentary reviews the existing research literature concerning support for talking about objects in mediated communication, drawing three conclusions: (a) speech alone is often sufficient for effective conversations; (b) visual information about work objects is generally more valuable than visual information about work participants; and (c) disjoint visual perspectives can undermine commun...

What we're talking about when we talk about race.

It has been pointed out repeatedly (1,2) that reported associations between race and illness should be subject to careful scrutiny. Establishing race as an independent risk factor for a disease is even more complicated than the usually difficult task of establishing epidemiologic association. Among the usual difficulties are selection of a representative sample, collection of accurate data, ide...

D-Theory: Talking about Talking about Trees

Linguists, including computational linguists, have always been fond of talking about trees. In this paper, we outline a theory of linguistic structure which talks about talking about trees; we call this theory Description theory (D-theory). While important issues must be resolved before a complete picture of D-theory emerges (and also before we can build programs which utilize it), we believe t...

Design Talking: How Design Practitioners Talk about Design Research Methods

To support the development of TheDesignExchange – a portal to a comprehensive set of design methods applicable to a range of disciplines – we hosted a series of workshops with design students, educators and practitioners. In this paper, we summarize insights gained from the three practitioner workshops associated with early stage design methods used to: Research, Analyze and Communicate. We con...