Advances in DIY Health and Wellbeing

The choice of consumer healthcare and wellbeing technologies has never been greater, and the introduction of consumer wearable technologies and inexpensive sensor kits means that developing bespoke personalized health devices is now possible. For example, there is a growing community making DIY diabetes technologies and the trend is spreading to other health areas where people want to design, customize, manufacture and disseminate their own DIY health and wellbeing technologies. Although the CHI community has started to investigate these trends, the pace that motivated open-source health 'makers' and 'hackers' are developing technologies means that there is a need to bring together researchers to discuss the HCI implications of this changing landscape

Investing Online: Concerns about the Evolving Use of the Internet as an Investment Tool in the Secondary Market Context

La croissance dramatique du commerce électronique des titres cache un grand potentiel pour les investisseurs, de même que pour l’industrie des valeurs mobilières en général. Prenant en considération ses risques particuliers, les autorités réglementaires vivent un défi important face à l’Internet en tant que nouveau moyen d’investir. Néanmoins, malgré l’évolution technologique, les objectifs fondamentaux et l’approche des autorités réglementaires restent similaires à ce qui se produit présentement. Cet article analyse l’impact de l’Internet sur le commerce des valeurs mobilières en se concentrant sur les problèmes soulevés par l’utilisation de ce nouveau moyen de communication dans le contexte du marché secondaire. Par conséquent, son objectif est de dresser le portrait des plaintes typiques des investisseurs, de même que celui des activités frauduleuses en valeurs mobilières propres au cyberespace. L’auteur fait une synthèse des développements récents en analysant l’approche des autorités réglementaires, les études doctrinales, la jurisprudence et les cas administratifs. L'auteure désire remercier la professeure Raymonde Crête pour ses précieux commentaires et conseils.The explosive growth of electronic trading holds great potential for investors, as well as for the securities industry as a whole. Taking into consideration its unique risks, securities regulators face tough challenges dealing with the Internet as a new investment tool. Nevertheless, despite a changing technological environment, the fundamental goals and approach of securities regulators can be expected to remain constant. This article examines the impact of the Internet on securities trading, focusing on the concerns raised by the use of this new medium in a secondary market context. Consequently, it aims at illustrating typical investors’ complaints and fraudulent securities schemes, which evolve in Cyberspace. The author takes a close look at the recent developments in this field, analyzing securities regulators’ approaches, doctrinal studies as well as relevant jurisprudence and administrative cases. The author would like to thank Professor Raymonde Crête for her valuable comments and advice

An aesthetics of touch: investigating the language of design relating to form

How well can designers communicate qualities of touch? This paper presents evidence that they have some capability to do so, much of which appears to have been learned, but at present make limited use of such language. Interviews with graduate designer-makers suggest that they are aware of and value the importance of touch and materiality in their work, but lack a vocabulary to fully relate to their detailed explanations of other aspects such as their intent or selection of materials. We believe that more attention should be paid to the verbal dialogue that happens in the design process, particularly as other researchers show that even making-based learning also has a strong verbal element to it. However, verbal language alone does not appear to be adequate for a comprehensive language of touch. Graduate designers-makers’ descriptive practices combined non-verbal manipulation within verbal accounts. We thus argue that haptic vocabularies do not simply describe material qualities, but rather are situated competences that physically demonstrate the presence of haptic qualities. Such competencies are more important than groups of verbal vocabularies in isolation. Design support for developing and extending haptic competences must take this wide range of considerations into account to comprehensively improve designers’ capabilities

Prospectus, July 13, 2005

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Affordances, constraints and information flows as ‘leverage points’ in design for sustainable behaviour

Copyright @ 2012 Social Science Electronic PublishingTwo of Donella Meadows' 'leverage points' for intervening in systems (1999) seem particularly pertinent to design for sustainable behaviour, in the sense that designers may have the scope to implement them in (re-)designing everyday products and services. The 'rules of the system' -- interpreted here to refer to affordances and constraints -- and the structure of information flows both offer a range of opportunities for design interventions to in fluence behaviour change, and in this paper, some of the implications and possibilities are discussed with reference to parallel concepts from within design, HCI and relevant areas of psychology

Media Preferences among Consumers: Empirical Evidence from Ghana

Advertising is at the heart of any effective marketing communication campaign since it is a cost effective tool at communicating to masses of people. However, selecting the appropriate medium or a mix to use in advertising is a difficult task because of the abundance of advertising media and channels. The advent of internet technology and the rate at which it is becoming a part of social life and purchase behaviour has presented another medium that could possibly be used in communicating to targeted audience. However, there are few relevant studies on media preference of consumers and how it relates to advertising in Ghana. This study was aimed at assessing consumers’ preference for both traditional and contemporary media used in advertising to determine how gender differences and seasonality affect consumers’ usage of these media. 100 fully completed structured questionnaires were used to seek responses. By employing the Mann-Whitney U test and the Wilcoxon signed ranks tests, it was revealed that although there were no significant differences in media preference with regards to gender, seasonality had a significant impact on the usage frequency of the traditional media. Only internet was not significantly affected by seasonal changes. Therefore, advertisers need to be wary of how seasonal changes affect the number of respondents who will receive the message being communicated on the traditional media. Keywords: Advertising, Mann-Whitney U test, Wilcoxon Signed Ranks test and consumer media preference

Sun & moon

Discusses the production of the artist\u27s film