What They Really Want Is a Caliphate! British Salafi Reactions to the Arab Spring

"So, Tell Me What Users Want, What They Really, Really Want!"

Equating users' true needs and desires with behavioural measures of 'engagement' is problematic. However, good metrics of 'true preferences' are difficult to define, as cognitive biases make people's preferences change with context and exhibit inconsistencies over time. Yet, HCI research often glosses over the philosophical and theoretical depth of what it means to infer what users really want....

[What I really want to say].

What do patients really want to know?

A 60-year-old male patient presents to his primary care physician complaining of recent fatigue. The work-up reveals iron-deficiency anaemia due to carcinoma of the ascending colon, which has extensively metastasized to the liver. Had this illness occurred in the early 1960s, when a pater-nalistic approach to medicine was at its height, the physician might have chosen to tell the patient that h...

Do Auction Bidders “Really” Want to Win the Item, or Do They Simply Want to Win?

This article describes three experiments designed to investigate the effects of competition and attachment on auction bidder behavior. For each study, in order to isolate bidders' desire to win the item from bidders’ desire to simply win the auction, we constructed survey experiments with participants divided into two groups. Both groups bid on a certificate that could be exchanged for an attra...

Female sterilisation: is it what women really want?

OBJECTIVE To audit the effectiveness of a female sterilisation counselling clinic. DESIGN A prospective, observational study of a female sterilisation counselling clinic over a 6-month period to determine the proportions of attenders keeping their appointment, proceeding to sterilisation, and attending for surgery. SETTING A hospital-based, city centre family planning clinic run by permanen...