What were You Thinking?

What Are You Really Thinking?

This note describes a response to the call for sonifications issued in connection with ICAD2004. The resulting piece is entitled " What are you really thinking? " 1. OVERVIEW The call for sonifications issued in connection with ICAD2004 presented a challenge to the scientific and artistic community: to convert to sound 36 channels of data (mostly electro­ encephalograms, but also heartbeat, res...

What Were They Thinking: Modeling Think Times for Performance Testing

When modeling users interacting with a system, the concept of think time will arise. Besides developing a workload model and recording scripts, a think time analysis is necessary in order to have an accurate test and appropriate system throughput. Think time is the time the user spends between tasks. Example tasks include: selecting from a menu, entering data into a text field, reviewing a list...

Examining Students’ Intended Image on Facebook: “What Were They Thinking?!”

The present article examines factors that influence why students post information on their social network profile which employers would find inappropriate. Results show that many students make a conscious attempt to portray a particular image and, as predicted, their intended image was related to whether they posted inappropriate information. Those who believed they portrayed a hardworking imag...

To an intern: what if you were the patient?

Congratulations, student doctor. You studied hard and scored well on your examinations—not only on your Medical College Admissions Test but in your organic chemistry tests as well. You mastered anatomy as well as pharmacology, neurology, and more “-ologies” than you care to remember. Now it is time to get hands-on learning experience, without being able to hide in the library, while preparing f...

What would you do if it were your kid?