I will start with a question that constantly lingers in the back of my mind as an experience designer, “how do I define what I do in a simple way?” For me, the practice of ‘experience design’ is designing for people with the objective of engaging them in positive experiences. Designing for people and engaging them requires knowing and thinking about the people who might use the specific product...

We investigate the estimation of the size of a broadcast audience. We give the Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimators for different scenarios. Using Poisson approximation we obtain upper and lower bounds for the audience size. The ML estimators has closed-form expressions, so are the bounds. We treat the problem of a malfunctioning feedback flow control, where the sender is overwhelmed by feedback ...

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medical student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, wanted a central repository for his notes. Since he was lugging his laptop to class anyway, he figured putting them on a website made sense. And though his original motivation was to enhance his education, LaPierre thought his website could also help students across Canada and in other countries, especially those in resource-poor ...

Fragmented health care services are responsible for South Africa's dismal infant and maternal mortality rates while budgets are being greedily consumed by bloated and inefficient administrations that sideline clinicians at the coalface. New Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said this to 200 doctors at Groote Schuur Hospital while sharing how he plans to turn the floundering health care ship a...

Executive Summary v Glossary of Economic Terms ix 1. Introduction 1 1.1 Background and hypotheses 1 1.2 Objectives and target audience 1 1.3 Definitions and scope 1 1.4 Structure of paper 4 2. Economics and Forestry: a Conceptual Overview 4 2.1 Introduction 4 2.2 Forestry, economics and public resource allocation 4 2.3 Recent changes in economic and forest policies 5 2.4 The development of envi...

We report on the development of a Decision Support System (DSS) to plan the best assignment for the weekly promotion space of a TV station. Each product to promote has a given target audience that is best reached at specific time periods during the week. The DSS aims to maximize the total viewing for each product within its target audience while fulfilling a set of constraints defined by the us...