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Posts Tagged ‘ collaboration ’

From VCR to PVR: A retrospective on interface design and affordance

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December 28, 2011

Recently I found some written instructions I had prepared several years ago to help my parents program their VCR. It took me three pages to write out the steps to record a program.  Where applicable each step included a hand drawn representation of the button the VCR (and/or the remote) to ensure clarity and...
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Physician schedule thyself

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November 10, 2011

Accidents happen. Often when we are tired, overwhelmed with too much information and too much to do we make mistakes. Many of us work long hours, interacting with complex machinery and in noisy environments. Few of us, however, are required to work 36 or more hours in a row, with little or no sleep....
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Journals: you can’t publish without us so please work with us

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September 30, 2011

A couple of great posts from other bloggers on the peer review process, journal publishing and the open access movement: Peers, review your actions by Michael Taylor on September 29th, 2011 Access to scientific publications should be a fundamental right by petermr on September 30th, 2011 I’m excited that others are sharing their thoughts...
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Technology, the knowledge economy and how academia should respond

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September 17, 2011
Technology, the knowledge economy and how academia should respond

We need not look far for examples of the massive change the Internet has brought upon us. Take the music industry for example. Like water finding the path of least resistance people started to find ways to create and exchange copies of songs for free. There has been much speculation as to why this...
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Data Part 2 – When you can’t collect it, find it elsewhere. And get the patients involved.

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September 8, 2011
Data Part 2 – When you can’t collect it, find it elsewhere. And get the patients involved.

Another way to obtain data for use in research studies is to find sources in which it has already been collected. There are many organizations that record data either for their own purposes or as their mandate. Obtaining data in the former circumstance may be difficult due to privacy issues. However, Statistics Canada as...
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Data: harder to find and share than one might think

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July 22, 2011
Data: harder to find and share than one might think

A first person account of conducting a research study, from conceptualization, collecting the data through to publication.
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The crowdsourcing of tagging: a form of sensemaking

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June 4, 2011

Peter Wylie recently wrote, “As the Internet continues to accumulate more and more information, it becomes increasingly difficult to sort and prioritize that information in a way that provides optimal relevance for each individual user”. In this post Peter also describes Blekko, a search engine that requests users to rank the relevance of their...
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Two steps forward (open source, open access), one step back (open data)

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May 29, 2011

For many years the open source (shareware, freeware) movement has flourished. Linux is considered, “one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration”. Repositories such as www.shareware.com and www.tucows.com provide a centralized distribution method for individual programmers to increase the reach of their product. The open access movement in academia...
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Patients’ Association of Canada

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February 26, 2011


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Wikipedia and education: fear or foresight?

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December 11, 2010

Since it was first cited by a student in an academic paper controversy over the accuracy, validity, truth or shall we say ‘correctness’ of Wikipedia has been debated. Before the widespread availability of information on the Internet we were relegated to what was available to us through schools, the library and media such as...
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