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Why Do People Adopt, or Reject, Smartphone Password Managers?
People use weak passwords for a variety of reasons, the most prescient of these being memory load and inconvenience. The motivation to choose weak passwords is even more compelling on Smartphones because entering complex passwords is particularly time consuming and arduous on small devices. Many of the memory- and inconvenience-related issues can be ameliorated by using a password manager app. Such an app can generate, remember and automatically supply passwords to websites and other apps on the phone. Given this potential, it is unfortunate that these applications have not enjoyed widespread adoption. We carried out a study to find out why this was so, to investigate factors that impeded or encouraged password manager adoption. We found that a number of factors mediated during all three phases of adoption: searching, deciding and trialling. The studyâs findings will help us to market these tools more effectively in order to encourage future adoption of password managers
Size Acceptance: A Discursive Analysis of Online Blogs
This document is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Fat Studies on 25 May 2018, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2018.1473704. Under embargo until 25 May 2019.Dominant discourses of âfatnessâ and âfat peopleâ have implications for physical and mental health. Although alternative discourses such as âsize acceptanceâ exist, there has been little consideration of the ways in which these alternative arguments (and speakers) may be positioned to be heard. Using a discursive thematic analysis, the authors demonstrate that size acceptance online bloggers have created a community online that enables them to persuasively provide alternative claims to âexpertise,â which positions their views as credible and legitimate alternatives to those of more established authority figuresâsuch as health professionals. This has implications not only for the lived experience of fat people, but also for researchers by emphasizing the importance of exploring not just what is said, but how, if we are to understand how different articulated positions are to be persuasive.Peer reviewe
Journal Club Revisited: Teaching Evidence-Based Research and Practice to Graduate Students in a Professional Degree Program
A Journal Club can be a learning exercise that allows for the critique and pursuant analytic discussion of empirical studies, and encourages the public health, health administration, or health policy student to better understand how evidence-based research contributes to evidence-based practice. The purpose of this paper is to describe a learning exercise that implements the Journal Club to evaluate strengths and limitations of relevant research studies and their potential influence on evidence-based practice. This learning exercise was developed to increase discipline-specific knowledge and improve analytical thinking to form and communicate a well-researched and reasoned critique about current peer-reviewed research. Specifically, the exercise was designed to: (1) identify the peer-review process and its influence on evidence-based practice; (2) curate primary resources for selected health issues; (3) evaluate a published, peer-reviewed research article for its rigor and limitations with respect to reported methods, findings, and applicability to professional practice; and (4) facilitate a discussion about discipline-specific research in a concise, professional manner. At the conclusion of the exercise, graduate students, who are also working professionals, reflected on the utility of examining how evidence-based research impacts evidence-based practice. The benefits of this applied learning approach for students and the faculty instructor are discussed
Effective ways to use nonpersonal information in healthcare: report from a workshop held at University College London 15-16 April 2004
New information technologies are being introduced in the UK National Health Service as
resources for the acquisition of clinical knowledge. These are forcing working practices
to adapt and are affecting and challenging perceived roles, relationships and
expectations of patients and health professionals alike. Effective ways to use nonpersonal
information in healthcare was a two-day workshop hosted by UCL Interaction
Centre at University College London intended to provide a forum for practioners and
researchers working in the area of clinical health information delivery to come together to
discuss access to health information, and to consider how the various challenges and
opportunities relating to electronic information provision can be managed most
effectively.
For the first day of the workshop, the theme for presentations and discussion was
information provision for and access by health professionals. Talks were given by Julius
Weinberg (City University, London), Roger Slack (University of Edinburgh) and Anne
Adams (University College London). The theme for the second day was information
provision and access by patients. Presentations were given by Mig Muller (NHS Direct),
Jane Wilson (Whittington Hospital and Medi-notes), Andrew Herxheimer (University of
Oxford) and Henry Potts (University College London). On both days, delegates formed
into three groups for breakout sessions in which they discussed and reported back on:
information quality and use, social and organisational context, and user requirements
and training in relation to the respective daily theme (health practitioners/patients).
This report summerises each of the presentations and the reports by the breakout
groups
Framing audience prefigurations of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: The roles of fandom, politics and idealised intertexts
Audiences for blockbuster event-film sequels and adaptations often formulate highly developed expectations, motivations, understandings and opinions well before the films are released. A range of intertextual and paratextual influences inform these audience prefigurations, and are believed to frame subsequent audience engagement and response. In our study of prefigurative engagements with Peter Jacksonâs 2012 film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, we used Q methodology to identify five distinct subjective orientations within the filmâs global audience. As this paper illustrates, each group privileges a different set of extratextual referents â notably J.R.R. Tolkienâs original novels, Peter Jacksonâs The Lord of The Rings film trilogy, highly localised political debates relating to the filmâs production, and the previous associations of the filmâs various stars. These interpretive frames, we suggest, competed for ascendancy within public and private discourse in the lead up to The Hobbitâs international debut, effectively fragmenting and indeed polarising the filmâs prospective global audience
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