What do healthcare providers think of patients who use the Internet?: An exploratory study

The Internet is a technology that is influencing multiple human factors (i.e. cognitive and social). Adults who seek information on the Internet about their health conditions are becoming more common. Providers have been wary of patient information searches, fearing that, at worst, conflicting information may provoke confrontation and doubt and, at best, the information is trivial or already well known to the provider. For this exploratory study a survey was conducted that investigates trends in healthcare provider information technology use and information seeking opinions. This survey was followed by a highly structured interview of n=21 providers. The researcher shows two provider strategies by which patients information seeking can be used to strengthen the professional clinical relationship

Session for interaction and engagement: personal infrastructures of distributed scientific collaboration

This session for interaction and engagement (SIE) is designed to involve participants in depicting (a) their own arrangements of digital resources that support their own research and (b) imagining alternative arrangements, new resources, and other practices. As such, this SIE is partly a session on sharing contemporary practices and arrangements in digitally-enabled scientific practice, and partly a session on imagining possible future practices and arrangements. The organizers of this session are keen to study the work of social scientists and smaller-scale science. The infrastructure of social scientists is remarkably different than the cyberinfrastructure of natural, physical, and biological scientists. Rather than having access to larger-scale computational resources directed at investigating certain problems or natural phenomena, social scientists perform a cobbling together of multiple consumer software solutions for storage, analysis, collaboration, and other common scientific practices. Distributed social scientists collaborating on research problems use consumer software to develop their own infrastructure that is continuously standardized and stabilized as the group conducts research

Medication-related cognitive artifacts used by older adults with heart failure

OBJECTIVE: To use a human factors perspective to examine how older adult patients with heart failure use cognitive artifacts for medication management. METHODS: We performed a secondary analysis of data collected from 30 patients and 14 informal caregivers enrolled in a larger study of heart failure self-care. Data included photographs, observation notes, interviews, video recordings, medical record data, and surveys. These data were analyzed using an iterative content analysis. RESULTS: Findings revealed that medication management was complex, inseparable from other patient activities, distributed across people, time, and place, and complicated by knowledge gaps. We identified fifteen types of cognitive artifacts including medical devices, pillboxes, medication lists, and electronic personal health records used for: 1) measurement/evaluation; 2) tracking/communication; 3) organization/administration; and 4) information/sensemaking. These artifacts were characterized by fit and misfit with the patient's sociotechnical system and demonstrated both advantages and disadvantages. We found that patients often modified or "finished the design" of existing artifacts and relied on "assemblages" of artifacts, routines, and actors to accomplish their self-care goals. CONCLUSIONS: Cognitive artifacts are useful but sometimes are poorly designed or are not used optimally. If appropriately designed for usability and acceptance, paper-based and computer-based information technologies can improve medication management for individuals living with chronic illness. These technologies can be designed for use by patients, caregivers, and clinicians; should support collaboration and communication between these individuals; can be coupled with home-based and wearable sensor technology; and must fit their users' needs, limitations, abilities, tasks, routines, and contexts of use

The non-dipolar magnetic fields of accreting T Tauri stars

Models of magnetospheric accretion on to classical T Tauri stars often assume that stellar magnetic fields are simple dipoles. Recently published surface magnetograms of BP Tau and V2129 Oph have shown, however, that their fields are more complex. The magnetic field of V2129 Oph was found to be predominantly octupolar. For BP Tau the magnetic energy was shared mainly between the dipole and octupole field components, with the dipole component being almost four times as strong as that of V2129 Oph. From the published surface maps of the photospheric magnetic fields we extrapolate the coronal fields of both stars, and compare the resulting field structures with that of a dipole. We consider different models where the disc is truncated at, or well-within, the Keplerian corotation radius. We find that although the structure of the surface magnetic field is particularly complex for both stars, the geometry of the larger scale field, along which accretion is occurring, is somewhat simpler. However, the larger scale field is distorted close to the star by the stronger field regions, with the net effect being that the fractional open flux through the stellar surface is less than would be expected with a dipole magnetic field model. Finally, we estimate the disc truncation radius, assuming that this occurs where the magnetic torque from the stellar magnetosphere is comparable to the viscous torque in the disc.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures. Figures are reduced resolutio

Contemporary Issues of Open Data in Information Systems Research: Considerations and Recommendations

Researchers, governments, and funding agencies are calling on research disciplines to embrace open data—data that anyone can access and use. They have done so based on the premise that research efforts can draw and generate several benefits from open data because it might provide further insight and enable individuals to replicate and extend current knowledge in different contexts. These potential benefits, coupled with a global push towards open data policies, bring open data into the agenda of research disciplines, which includes information systems (IS). In this paper, we respond to these developments as follows. We outline themes in the ongoing discussion around open data in the IS discipline. The themes fall into two clusters: 1) the motivation for open data includes themes of mandated sharing, benefits to the research process, extending the life of research data, and career impact; and 2) the implementation of open data includes themes of governance, socio-technical system, standards, data quality, and ethical considerations. In this paper, we outline the findings from a pre-ICIS 2016 workshop on the topic of open data. The workshop discussion confirmed themes and identified issues that require attention in terms of the approaches that IS researchers currently use. The IS discipline offers a unique knowledge base, tools, and methods that can advance open data across disciplines. Based on our findings, we provide suggestions on how IS researchers can drive the open data conversation. Further, we provide advice for adopting and establishing procedures and guidelines for archiving, evaluating, and using open data

Using Ethnography of Email to Understand Distributed Scientific Collaborations

In this brief poster abstract we explore the finding from previous research that distributed teams collaborating on research use email to an overwhelming degree. This email is the source of collaboration and one of the central documents in the practice of doing science. We present an early idea of email focused ethnography and using visualizations to assist in the qualitative exploration of analyzing email communications. Of interest is the utility of different visualizations to inform follow up interviews of longitudinal fieldwork and data collection. Two such visualizations are presented and described. Along with the benefits of the techniques we describe some of the challenges.ye

Concert recording 2013-04-25

[Track 01]. Excerpts from The water music / G.F. Handel, transcribed by L. Martinet -- [Track 02]. Villanelle / Paul Dukas -- [Track 03]. Nocturne / Reinhold Gliere -- [Track 04]. Concerto no. 1. Allegro moderato / Franz Strauss -- [Track 05]. Horn-lokk (1972) / Sigurd Berge -- [Track 06]. Sonata for horn in F. Massig bewegt / Paul Hindemith -- [Track 07]. Killer tango / Sonny Kompanek -- [Track 08]. Fantasy (1979) / Ronald LoPresti -- [Track 09]. Sextet for horns (1967) / Gregory Kerkorian