Public engagement with eHealth is generally viewed as beneficial. However, despite the potential benefits, public engagement with eHealth services remains variable. This article explores reasons for this variability through a review of published literature. A focused search, conducted in January 2009, of three bibliographic databases, MEDLINE, CINAHL and EMBASE, returned 2622 unique abstracts. ...

Research and deployment of public interactive displays is moving from laboratory environments into urban spaces and public areas (Müller et al. 2010 ). Public displays augment the activities in the space around them by facilitating different use cases, such as public statements (Ananny and Strohecker 2009 ; Dalsgaard and Halskov 2010 ), play and performance (O’Hara et al. 2008 ; Hosio et al. 20...

One of the challenges in developing public displays for urban settings is that the seductiveness for passers-by can quickly wear off. People often spend only a short time at the displays, and then rarely return. Two reasons might contribute to this: the content in the display, and the possibilities for interaction with the display, either solo or in groups. In this paper, we seek to understand ...

EuroStemCell is a large and growing network of organizations and individuals focused on public engagement with stem cells and regenerative medicine - a fluid and contested domain, where scientific, political, ethical, legal and societal perspectives intersect. Rooted in the European stem cell research community, this project has developed collaborative and innovative approaches to information p...

This tutorial paper details experiences of four public engagement projects that have communicated acoustic science to lay audiences using web experiments. Recent developments in personal computers, the Internet and software platforms offers new and exciting opportunities for engaging publics because technologies routinely allow the reproduction of sound. The projects are psychoacoustic experime...