Health communication is an essential health promotion strategy to convert scientific findings into actionable, empowering information for the public. Health communication interventions have shown positive outcomes, but many efforts have been disappointing. A key weakness is that expert-designed health communication is often overly generic and not adequately aligned with the abilities, preferenc...

nowadays, one of the main goals of each organization, person or profession is having a good image and implications associated with it, intelligence and basically a good brand. generally, political advertising and image management or management of political image has been one of the fundamental principles for democracy and modern society. planning of public image needs a careful control of infor...

this study aimed to examine key factors affecting rural female facilitators’ role in participatory rural development in tehran province. since the researchers intended to have a better insight into the facilitators’ role and employ inquiry as a learning forum for bringing about changes for all participants, they preferred to use a case study based upon an appreciative inquiry method. the study ...

By bringing together literatures of Communication for Development and Conflict Transformation, this paper provides a theoretical illustration of the impact of participatory video as a tool for overcoming hostility among groups, as well as for healing and re-connecting communities that have endured loss and suffering as a consequence of civil war and inter-communal violence. This is accompanied ...

This article aimed at finding out if participatory processes (group discussions, enactments, and others) do make a valuable contribution in communication-based project implementation/evaluation and the fight against HIV/AIDS. A case study backed by documentary analysis of evaluation reports and occasional insights from interviews stood as the main methods. To identify values, the state of benef...

In this paper we present User Participatory Sketching as a complementary approach to user requirements gathering methods. We apply the approach in an empirical study and investigate its potential benefits early in interaction design processes. The findings from a case study suggest the User Participatory Sketching approach can complement conventional user requirement gathering techniques in the...

This paper proposes User Participatory Sketching as a complementary approach to user requirements gathering methods, applies the approach in an empirical study and investigates its potential benefits in the early interaction design stage. The findings from the case study suggest the proposed “User Participatory Sketching” can complement conventional user requirement gathering techniques in the ...

Agents (specially humans) with smart devices are stemming with astounding rapidity and that may play a big role in information and communication technology apart from being used only as a mere calling devices. Inculcating the power of smart devices carried by the agents in several different applications is commonly termed as participatory sensing (PS). In this paper, for the first time a truthf...

In the course of time it has become clear that policy analysts who use traditional formal modeling techniques have limited impact on policy making regarding complex policy problems. These kinds of problems require the analyst to combine scienti®c insights with subjective knowledge resources and to improve communication between the parties involved in the policy problem. A policy analyst who tak...