People make a range of everyday decisions about how and whether to share content withdi erent people, across di erent platforms and services, during a variety of tasks. Thesesharing decisions can encompass complex preferences and a variety of access-control di-mensions. In this thesis I examine potential methods for improving sharing mechanisms bybetter understanding the everyda...

BACKGROUND Continued improvements in occupational health can only be ensured if decisions regarding the implementation and continuation of occupational health and safety interventions (OHS interventions) are based on the best available evidence. To ensure that this is the case, scientific evidence should meet the needs of decision-makers. As a first step in bridging the gap between the economic...

The objective of this study was to describe the messages about treatment decision-making on popular cancer web sites, with particular reference to gender differences. The two most popular UK based web sites for breast and prostate cancer were chosen. Qualitative and quantitative comparative content analysis of the two case study web sites were performed. Web site portrayals of treatment decisio...

Decision aids are becoming more popular and more accessible thanks to the internet and hand held computers. The question remains, however, if decision aids can be used beyond just aiding the human decision process. Can we use computers to make decisions without loosing out on some of the aspects of decision making that are important to us? The aspects that will be dealt with are; transparency, ...

Dr. Sta ord's article addresses issues that are of increasing importance and urgency: Are we prepared to deal with the advances in genetic information and, in particular, results of prenatal tests? How can we assist parents confronted with test results indicating possible genetic disorders of their babies? Can computer programs be of help to human decision makers? I am in agreement with Dr. Sta...

Can you see that justice is supposed to be blind? Abstract Decision aids are becoming more popular and more accessible thanks to the internet and hand held computers. The question remains, however, if decision aids can be used beyond just aiding the human decision process. Can we use computers to make decisions without loosing out on some of the aspects of decision making that are important to ...

In this paper, I will examine two different approaches to an experimental decision problem posed by Craig Fox and Amos Tversky. This decision problem is intended to illustrate the phenomenon called “ambiguity aversion” that is observed in decision situations under uncertainty. These situations occur when an agent is faced with a decision problem where the probabilities are not specified in adva...

Info-Gap is supposedly a new theory for decision making under severe uncertainty. Its claim to fame is that it is non-probabilistic in nature and thus offers an alternative to all current theories for decision making under uncertainty. In this short article I show that Info-Gap is neither new nor radically different from current decision theories. Specifically, I formally prove that Info-Gap’s ...

In the context of end-of-life clinical care decisions, it is true that all mentally competent patients can make these decisions for themselves. However, patients’ conditions may decline so that they become mentally incompetent in their terminal illnesses. The latter scenario is fairly common. For example, Silveira et al1 found 30% of the older adults who required decision making at the end of l...

Rationality is one of the most over-used words in economics. Behaviour can be rational, or irrational. So can decisions, preferences, beliefs, expectations, decision procedures, and knowledge. There may also be bounded rationality. And recent work in game theory has considered strategies and beliefs or expectations that are “rationalizable”. Here I propose to assess how economists use and mis-u...