Medication errors can result from administration inaccuracies at any point of care and are a major cause for concern. To develop a successful Medication Reconciliation (MR) tool, we believe it necessary to build a Work Domain Ontology (WDO) for the MR process. A WDO defines the explicit, abstract, implementation-independent description of the task by separating the task from work context, appli...

There is a need of structured information for mobile devices. They are small and they have many side applications that creates a hazardous user interfaces. Wireless Application Protocol was trying to place the things in order but the emphasis was on protocol and not on the interface level (it was some how tackled but not realy seriously). Also, we want to have an interface that is portable, dev...

Wireless access to the internet has emerged as a potential "killer application" which will demand sophisticated spoken language technology in order to realize its full potential. There are many challenges that must be met to make the "Voice Web" a reality – recognition technology, network infrastructure, new devices, and the development of new user interface paradigms. The Voice Web offers an o...

This paper presents an implementation, using the SAS System, of the “cluster scoring” method proposed by Tibshirani, Hastie, Balasubramanian, Eisen, Sherlock, Brown and Botstein (2002) for use in microarray experiments. The program is designed in a modular fashion, using SAS Macro Language, so that implementations for specific experimental cases can be added with ease. Current development accom...

Recently, a growing body of empirical research has begun to examine the practice of electronic group communication. Electronic group communication is a key process through which people can maintain communities of practice and leverage the strength of weak ties. Even though prior empirical investigations of electronic group communication have been successful at providing evidence for its effecti...

Design and testing of database engines and applications requires to construct and evaluate various alternative scenarios with respect to the database contents. To construct a scenario, existing methodology consumes space and time at least proportional to database size. This may limit the desired scenarios and/or make it infeasible to model them. In this work, we present CODD, a graphical tool t...

Theory and experiment are presented to show that an interface between two soft materials under compression can form creases, a type of bifurcation distinct from wrinkles. While creases bifurcate from a state of flat interface by a deformation localized in space and large in amplitude, wrinkles bifurcate from a state of flat interface by a deformation nonlocal in space and infinitesimal in ampli...

OBJECTIVES To explore how Australian general practitioners use pharmaceutical decision-support (PDS) systems; to determine GPs' perceptions of the deficiencies and strengths of these systems; and how they believe they can be improved. DESIGN AND SETTING Qualitative analysis of discussion from three focus groups of GPs (from one rural and two urban Divisions of General Practice) between April ...

It is proposed that games, which are designed to generate positive affect, are most successful when they facilitate flow (Csikszentmihalyi 1992). Flow is a state of concentration, deep enjoyment, and total absorption in an activity. The study of games, and a resulting understanding of flow in games can inform the design of non-leisure software for positive affect. The paper considers the ways i...