Who cares? These are (not) my problems!

Who cares?

User Interfaces; Who Cares?

According to Michael Stonebraker’s experiences, if you select a group of well-known experts in database research and ask them to identify the domains where meeting use+ requirements is of primary importance and at the ‘same time more significant advances are needed and more research should be promoted, user interfaces comes out as number one in the list. This has been the case over the last dec...

Medication adherence: WHO cares?

The treatment of chronic illnesses commonly includes the long-term use of pharmacotherapy. Although these medications are effective in combating disease, their full benefits are often not realized because approximately 50% of patients do not take their medications as prescribed. Factors contributing to poor medication adherence are myriad and include those that are related to patients (eg, subo...

Chapter 1 THEIR PROBLEMS ARE MY PROBLEMS

In Multi-Agent Systems there has been quite an amount of research on how to model conflicts in (intelligent) agent architectures for example by imitating mental states and augmenting them with social notions. Nevertheless, a great deal of investigation is missing on the transition between internal and external conflicts. Arguments in favor of taking a closer look at this transition include a pr...

Health problems after spinal cord injury rehabilitation: who cares?

The main aim of the project was to improve follow-up care for persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) after clinical rehabilitation by introducing transmural care in the rehabilitation sector. After discharge from rehabilitation, persons with SCI experience many health problems in daily life, for which they would like to receive better support. We undertook the following activities: (1) a survey ...