A panel of experts on human computer interaction (HCI) argues about who is best placed to ‘own’ HCI and the user centred design process, The experts come from a range of private and public sector organisations, both large (like Microsoft and the NHS) and small (System Concepts). The format of the panel will be loosely based on the popular radio and TV panel game “Whose line is it anyway?”

Increased cost of tobacco cultivation is a major concern for its sustainable production in Iran. Therefore, the development of tobacco mechanized cultivation is a necessity. Given this, the driving and inhibiting factors of the development of mechanized tobacco cultivation were investigated by the Delphi technique in three rounds in Guilan Province, Iran. Nineteen experts from the Jahad Agricul...

The use of the term 'expert' occurs widely in healthcare research, in the context of national guidelines and consensus methods for the development of clinical protocols. Within consensus methods of research, especially Delphi panel techniques, the use of 'experts' is fundamental to reliability. Yet literature fails to debate the practicalities of defining 'experts' for use within Delphi panel r...

the main purpose of this descriptive–survey research was to analysis of improvement mechanism of wheat consultant engineers' project in isfahan province. the main population consisted of 87 extension experts’ and 164 of wces in isfahan province and through randomized sampling 55 samples of extension experts’ and 95 of wces were selected to answer the questionnaires. the validity of questio...

although the validity of content of program is mostly conducted with qualitative methods, this study used both qualitative and quantitative methods for the validation of content of post marriage training program provided for newly married couples. content validity is a preliminary step of obtaining authorization required to install the program in country's health care system.this mixed methodol...

This is a panel discussion of seven complex urologic cases in female urology and neurourology. Differences in diagnosis and management are discussed by this international panel of experts.

We consider a persuasion game where the decision-maker relies on a panel of biased experts. An expert’s preference is parameterized by his ideal action, or agenda. Common intuition suggests that more information is revealed if the panel includes experts with opposed agendas, because such experts will undo each other’s attempts to conceal unfavorable information. In contrast, we show that recrui...