Some Personal Observations

Ethical issues during ethnographic research in residential homes: A personal experience

Background: Ethical issues are essential components in any piece of research. In fact, they ought to be considered during designing, planning and conducting each research study particularly among the vulnerable. The aim of this paper is to describe and explain some of the ethical issues and challenges faced by a researcher who carried out a research in three Malaysian residential homes. Mate...

Some observations on the feeding of the guinea pig

Some Observations on Clostridium perfringens Strains Isolated in IRAN

On the evils of drink. Some observations--clinical and personal.

The Changing Locus of Health Data Production and Use: Patient-Generated Health Data, Observations of Daily Living, and Personal Health Information Management

Despite the growing attention of researcher, healthcare managers and policy makers, data gathering and information management practices are largely untheorized areas. In this work are presented and discussed some earlystage conceptualizations: Patient-Generated Health Data (PGHD), Observations of Daily Living (ODLs) and Personal Health Information Management (PHIM). As I shall try to demonstrat...

An Audio-Based Personal Memory Aid

We are developing a wearable device that attempts to alleviate some everyday memory problems. The “memory prosthesis” records audio and contextual information from conversations and provides a suite of retrieval tools (on both the wearable and a personal computer) to help users access forgotten memories in a timely fashion. This paper describes the wearable device, the personal-computer-based r...