What Visitors Want From Urban Parks: Diversity, Utility, Serendipity

Website Visitors Asking Questions Online to Lung Cancer Specialists: What Do They Want To Know?

BACKGROUND In 2003 the Dutch Lung Cancer Information Centre (Longkanker Informatie Centrum) launched a website containing information on lung cancer accessible to anyone. OBJECTIVE Our study aim was to inventorize the information needs of the visitors of this website by analyzing the questions they asked the lung cancer specialists in the websites interactive section "Ask the Physician". ME...

Benefits of Urban Parks

What patients really want from health care.

IN 2012, PERHAPS THE MOST WIDELY SCRUTINIZED SECtor of the economy in North America will be the health care industry. Politicians, policy analysts, academics, and the public share concerns about the state of health care in both the United States and Canada. However, each of these constituencies has a different perspective. Most sectors of the economy are characterized by a supply side that focu...

What the Australian CEOs want from IT

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What Users Want from Smart Environments

A large body of research has addressed many issues in smart environments, but few have taken a user-centric approach. We believe that one of the main reasons that smart environments are still largely unrealized is because research is technology-centric, with inadequate focus on users. Because everyone will use smart environments, it is important to study a variety of potential users. To help br...