On the way to Colombia I started to read this book in order to review it - more on that to follow. I've only read four chapters so far and it is a fascinating read. A collection of essays each deals with a particular HTML tag and each so far provides new insights for me and resources.
When I came across the invitation for reviewers I read through the index. HTML 5 was not there so I thought the book might suffer from the rate of change in the interval from original conception to publication. Well HTML 5 is not in the index (just HTML), but it is in the text. Drupal and Ruby on Rails also get a mention.
Of particular interest is chapter 4 'alt' by Colleen A. Reilly which combines accessibility and definitions of disability.
I'll start writing the review soon for the Journal of Community Informatics trying to be more concise than previous efforts (I volunteered to learn too). As for W2tQ I've already found several interesting quotes too, such as the example below. This struck me because it's possible to describe h2cm as a keyword collage ...
<A> evokes collagist writings, "interesting networks that open up a conceptual map" McLuhan (258).
Indeed, collage often is the focus of this type of educational/digital education or writing that asks students to merge texts and ideas. <A>, as a social space, though, is not a collage. As a network, <A> builds relationships while also becoming relationships. To enact a pedagogy of <A>, I have to imagine a social software logic as opposed to connection or merging among things. That logic is not bound to a specific platform, such as the Web, but instead informs institutional practices through the generation of large-scale spaces.p.61.
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Most typical face in the world revealed (amid deep irony)
National Geographic Magazine has revealed what the most typical human on the planet looks like.…There is a deep irony here (since we are talking about 'skin') in that as the global demographics flow across the decades to alter this typical face, there is a growing proportion of the population who hope that health and social care delivery is not typical and a 'composite'.
They hope that health, nursing and social care is truly personal and individual - taking in their preferences, needs and priorities.
Having said that though - would it be progress if everyone could expect at least to receive what is deemed a 'standard' level of basic nursing care that is in a way 'typical'?
more to follow - more will follow - are we ready?
Monday, February 28, 2011
'Health coaching': One application for the Health Care Domains Model?
The following message from Helen Erickson (Univ. of Texas) was received through the Modeling and Role Modeling mail list MRM-L at LISTS.UFL.EDU. It is the patient education aspect of the post that is of interest to me as it highlights why I continue to champion Hodges' model near and far.
'Coaching' (in its various forms) is a potential application for h2cm which can be used explicitly by explaining the model to the (potential!) patient / carer, or implicitly used by the health care professional as an aide memoire - a conceptual framework.
More to follow as I referred to the matter of health care delivery vs. health education in my presentation and the delegates raised the question of applications of Hodges' came up in Paipa last week.
Good afternoon,
Some of you know that the healthcare bill signed last year (HR3590) includes a section aimed at revamping the healthcare system from a disease model to a health promotion, disease prevention. Section 4001 particularly addresses care for those on Medicaid and Medicare. A national advisory committee is being named to study this, make recommendations, etc (see Section 4001). Among the representatives of specific groups (orientation to health care) being named to the advisory group is the "health coach".
STTI and ICN put out a manual on coaching a year or so ago, coupled with a short CE test. When I read the manual and took the test (it took about 10 minutes total), I discounted the movement, thinking that it was just another way to define what we call MRM. The only difference is that it requires some specific strategies and skills, most of which I've discussed with you through the years, e.g. contracting, The other difference will be determined by what happens at the national scene. It is possible that "coaching" will be reimbursed. Many think that it will, thus the national group out of Harvard, the University of MN, and others are meeting, talking, defining the construct, etc.
As Chair of American Holistic Nurses' Certification Corporation, I have been drawn back to the topic repeatedly. Most recently, AHNCC has decided to actively explore certifying nurses who practice holistic health coaching, i.e.certifying a holistic health nurse coach. I have added a poll to the ahncc website, eager to learn if nurses are interested in the movement, etc. if you are interested in the website or want to express your position on health coaching, please visit ahncc.org.
Hope to hear from you,
Best to all,
Helen
'Coaching' (in its various forms) is a potential application for h2cm which can be used explicitly by explaining the model to the (potential!) patient / carer, or implicitly used by the health care professional as an aide memoire - a conceptual framework.
More to follow as I referred to the matter of health care delivery vs. health education in my presentation and the delegates raised the question of applications of Hodges' came up in Paipa last week.
<->
Good afternoon,
Some of you know that the healthcare bill signed last year (HR3590) includes a section aimed at revamping the healthcare system from a disease model to a health promotion, disease prevention. Section 4001 particularly addresses care for those on Medicaid and Medicare. A national advisory committee is being named to study this, make recommendations, etc (see Section 4001). Among the representatives of specific groups (orientation to health care) being named to the advisory group is the "health coach".
STTI and ICN put out a manual on coaching a year or so ago, coupled with a short CE test. When I read the manual and took the test (it took about 10 minutes total), I discounted the movement, thinking that it was just another way to define what we call MRM. The only difference is that it requires some specific strategies and skills, most of which I've discussed with you through the years, e.g. contracting, The other difference will be determined by what happens at the national scene. It is possible that "coaching" will be reimbursed. Many think that it will, thus the national group out of Harvard, the University of MN, and others are meeting, talking, defining the construct, etc.
As Chair of American Holistic Nurses' Certification Corporation, I have been drawn back to the topic repeatedly. Most recently, AHNCC has decided to actively explore certifying nurses who practice holistic health coaching, i.e.certifying a holistic health nurse coach. I have added a poll to the ahncc website, eager to learn if nurses are interested in the movement, etc. if you are interested in the website or want to express your position on health coaching, please visit ahncc.org.
Hope to hear from you,
Best to all,
Helen
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Monday, January 24, 2011
1st Int. Congress of Nursing Models and Theories: Colombia 24th-25th Feb. 2011
I am delighted to report the news that the
Health Care Domains Model
will feature at this International conference.
In November I received an invitation to be one of the main speakers from the Grupo Gics Investigacion Team; and so next month I will be heading south to Paipa, Boyacá, Colombia.
This prospect would not be possible without the support of the conference organisers - GICS and Prof. Wilson Canon Montanez, Nursing Faculty of the University of Santander UDES (Bucaramanga-Colombia) and my employer Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Recently a group of Nursing Faculties of three major Universities in Colombia (Universidad de Santander UDES, Universidad Pedagogica y Tecnologica de Colombia UPTC y Universidad de los Llanos UNILLANOS) have come together to organize the First International Congress of Nursing Models and Theories.
This congress will be held in the city of Paipa-Colombia 24 and 25 of February, 2011:
http://www.uptc.edu.co/eventos/cong_enfermeria/index.html
I very much look forward to this trip for several reasons:
- New people to meet and things to learn.
- This invitation literally puts h2cm on the map (so I must deliver)!
- It is marvellous to see faculty and nurses in Colombia re-invigorating thought about models of nursing.
- I have never travelled this far south - how will Orion look?
Monday, January 17, 2011
Personal realities and in the media
Ordinarily I would be completely lost in tonight's Horizon - What Is Reality? at 9pm BBC2. I will be watching, but I won't be as lost as I have been.
Today I took a big step forward - sorting 'issues' that will allow me to purchase a new home. I ('we') also resolved the post-marital issue of pensions. This has proved a major reality re-orientation factor since July 2008. There is the old house to sell, but nonetheless real progress.
I am really looking forward to the NW England Drupal meet in Manchester on Friday. That's another reality to immerse oneself in - especially Drupal 7!
Today I took a big step forward - sorting 'issues' that will allow me to purchase a new home. I ('we') also resolved the post-marital issue of pensions. This has proved a major reality re-orientation factor since July 2008. There is the old house to sell, but nonetheless real progress.
I am really looking forward to the NW England Drupal meet in Manchester on Friday. That's another reality to immerse oneself in - especially Drupal 7!
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Friday, January 14, 2011
ERCIM News #84 - Intelligent and Cognitive Systems
Dear ERCIM News Reader,
ERCIM News No. 84 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/
Special Theme:
"Intelligent and Cognitive Systems"
- coordinated by: Rüdiger Dillmann and Tamim Asfour, Institute for Anthropomatics, Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, and Antonis Argyros, FORTH-ICS
- featuring the keynote "Cognitive Systems and Robotics" in the ICT Programme of the European Commission, by Hans-Georg Stork, European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate General, Unit E5 “Cognitive Systems,Interaction, Robotics.
Includes on p.20
Long-term Evaluation of a Mobile Remote Presence Robot for the Elderly
by Amedeo Cesta, Gabriella Cortellessa, Lorenza Tiberio
Next issue: April 2011 - Special Theme: "Unconventional Computing Paradigms"
Thank you for your interest in ERCIM News.
Feel free to forward this message to others who might be interested.
Best regards,
Peter Kunz
ERCIM News central editor
ERCIM News No. 84 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/
Special Theme:
"Intelligent and Cognitive Systems"
- coordinated by: Rüdiger Dillmann and Tamim Asfour, Institute for Anthropomatics, Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, and Antonis Argyros, FORTH-ICS
- featuring the keynote "Cognitive Systems and Robotics" in the ICT Programme of the European Commission, by Hans-Georg Stork, European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate General, Unit E5 “Cognitive Systems,Interaction, Robotics.
Includes on p.20
Long-term Evaluation of a Mobile Remote Presence Robot for the Elderly
by Amedeo Cesta, Gabriella Cortellessa, Lorenza Tiberio
Next issue: April 2011 - Special Theme: "Unconventional Computing Paradigms"
Thank you for your interest in ERCIM News.
Feel free to forward this message to others who might be interested.
Best regards,
Peter Kunz
ERCIM News central editor
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Help wanted: Broken links (and help upstairs)
Periodically on W2tQ I highlight the four care domain links pages, e.g.:
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2009/06/heroes-wanted-to-slay-monster-or-just.html
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2010/02/topicscape-care-domain-links-in-3d-for.html
Simon Phillips emailed me, copied below: (edited removing the actual broken links)
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Peter,
I am writing to notify you of a small issue that I have just found on one of the pages of p-jones.demon.co.uk
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/links.htm
There seems to be a number of broken links on this page. These are the links that I found were not working:
Thanks for taking the time to read this email and for creating such a useful website.
Kind regards
Simon Phillips
-----------------
Simon runs a website about stair lifts, which provides information on choosing a stair lift and a comparison table of UK stair lift manufacturers.
In response I've corrected the links. I do check them with some automated tools, but as mentioned since 1998... they have become something of a monster. Considering the total number the vast majority are valid.
Before you all dash to check and get in touch :-) which would be greatly appreciated, please note that I can't necessarily respond to all such contacts in this way - but I can see what I can do ...
Many Thanks Simon!
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2009/06/heroes-wanted-to-slay-monster-or-just.html
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2010/02/topicscape-care-domain-links-in-3d-for.html
Simon Phillips emailed me, copied below: (edited removing the actual broken links)
------------------
Peter,
I am writing to notify you of a small issue that I have just found on one of the pages of p-jones.demon.co.uk
http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/links.htm
There seems to be a number of broken links on this page. These are the links that I found were not working:
- Nat. MH Info Center Substance Abuse and MH Services Admin. (SAMHSA)
- Systematic Reviews: Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
- Advancing literacy: A review of LIFE 2006–2009 UNESCO
- Wearable Computer Lab
- Keldy Forest
Thanks for taking the time to read this email and for creating such a useful website.
Kind regards
Simon Phillips
-----------------
Simon runs a website about stair lifts, which provides information on choosing a stair lift and a comparison table of UK stair lift manufacturers.
In response I've corrected the links. I do check them with some automated tools, but as mentioned since 1998... they have become something of a monster. Considering the total number the vast majority are valid.
Before you all dash to check and get in touch :-) which would be greatly appreciated, please note that I can't necessarily respond to all such contacts in this way - but I can see what I can do ...
Many Thanks Simon!
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
2010-2011 posts, papers, studies and Drupal
Happy New Year everyone!
2010 saw 211 posts, 183 in 2009. As ever a mix of original material concerning h2cm, conferences and call for papers. Fingers x'd 2011 should run to approx 150 posts as I focus on work, studies and Drupal. The good thing for me is that all three of these can run along together and I intend to forge a union if at all possible.
At work my full-time role is clinical - nursing; Nursing Home Liaison. Increasingly we are finding what nurses on the ground have recognized for a long time. With this job comes an educational role, despite efforts to upscale the skills and knowledge of the residential care / nursing home sectors. H2cm is a gift in these quarters, in prompting and facilitating reflection, holistic and person-centred care.
Studies: On this front I'm trying to identify a research question from a bewildering mix of possibilities. Previously I've referred to the relevance and my interest in conceptual spaces:
Hodges' model: Background - Foreground and the Space Between
Next paper? Conceptual Spaces and Hodges' model
Gardenfors' book - a quote and can that be, surely not ...h2cm?
This is definitely a worthwhile focus. I'm making enquiries to try to find a mentor. Strange, or maybe not actually, that I am a nurse mentor and sign-off mentor too and here I am coughing and spluttering in need of a mentor myself to help sort the wheat from the chaff. The 10K words on conceptual spaces is now 13K.
Today is a good day for throwing numbers about, but being short of time I hate wasting it. So I've been revisiting the papers situation. ...
The co-authored h2cm and forensic nursing paper is completed with two revisions, but still needs a home.
I missed an opportunity with the h2cm and substance misuse paper. Trying to complete it in the summer of 2009 before my eye surgery I did not stick to the brief. I'm hoping a new co-author can take the 5K words and help re-frame the content from a practice and service perspective. It really is refreshing to work with other people. I look forward to providing an update here later in the Winter - Spring.
Since this summer and the posts (one and two) about the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice I've drafted a piece on h2cm and medical progress taking an informational perspective. I'm not sure if this will pass muster, but this 5K did not take too long and I enjoyed the process.
As to Drupal - I've hit the wall that has "styling" written all over it. It seems if you start with a basic theme like Zen you are rewarded with an easy to negotiate palette, that is - you do it yourself. With more complete themes you need to read and orientate yourself with somebody else's handiwork. This is the next job and then move to Drupal 7 - released on the 5th.
In October I received an invitation to present at an international nursing conference. I've submitted a presentation and have offered to do a workshop too. This was accepted. It all depends on travel and confirmation of arrangements so we will have to see. If they just wanted support with links they only needed to ask.
More to follow on all the above and wherever you are
may I wish you a very happy, healthy,
peaceful and prosperous 2011!
To follow: Line of sight, lines of insight ...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Links of interest c/o HIFA2015 list
The following links appeared in recent HIFA2015 Healthcare Information For All posts:
AuthorAID: http://www.authoraid.info/ is a global research community that provides networking, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in developing countries.
IICD - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development: http://www.iicd.org/
Education for Health: http://www.educationforhealth.net/ an Open Access Journal.
Scientific Eletronic Library Online: Scientific Eletronic Library Online
Welsh Annual Conference 2010: http://www.welshconfed.org/WelshAnnualConference2010.htm
Welsh Information Literacy Framework: http://www.library.wales.org/index.php?id=7498
PLoS journal on Neglected Tropical Diseases: http://www.plosntds.org/home.action
Knowledge 4 Health eToolkits: http://www.k4health.org/toolkits
NCBI.NCI Paper: Poor reporting and inadequate searches were apparent in systematic reviews of adverse effects http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394536
Health Speaks: pilots result in 266 new local language health articles http://blog.google.org/2010/12/health-speaks-pilots-result-in-266-new.html
ERMED: Electronic Resources in Medicine Consortium http://www.nmlermed.in/
Global Health and Prevention calendar: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec40851/index.htm
AuthorAID: http://www.authoraid.info/ is a global research community that provides networking, mentoring, resources and training for researchers in developing countries.
IICD - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development: http://www.iicd.org/
Education for Health: http://www.educationforhealth.net/ an Open Access Journal.
Scientific Eletronic Library Online: Scientific Eletronic Library Online
Welsh Annual Conference 2010: http://www.welshconfed.org/WelshAnnualConference2010.htm
Welsh Information Literacy Framework: http://www.library.wales.org/index.php?id=7498
PLoS journal on Neglected Tropical Diseases: http://www.plosntds.org/home.action
Knowledge 4 Health eToolkits: http://www.k4health.org/toolkits
NCBI.NCI Paper: Poor reporting and inadequate searches were apparent in systematic reviews of adverse effects http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18394536
Health Speaks: pilots result in 266 new local language health articles http://blog.google.org/2010/12/health-speaks-pilots-result-in-266-new.html
ERMED: Electronic Resources in Medicine Consortium http://www.nmlermed.in/
Global Health and Prevention calendar: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec40851/index.htm
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Call for Papers: 1st Int. Workshop on Pervasive Care for People with Dementia and their Carers (PCPDC-2011)
(To the webmasters of http://www.pervasivehealth.org please check the status of your site - 'attack site')
Dublin, Ireland, 23 May 2011
http://trail.ulster.ac.uk/pcpdc/
To be held in conjunction with the 5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2011
The global population of persons aged 60 and over is rising dramatically. Between 2006 and 2050, the number of people aged 60 and over will double from 650 million to 2 billion people representing 22% of humanity. One group of the ageing population that is particularly vulnerable to loss of independence is those affected by dementia. It is estimated that around 820,000 people in the UK have dementia. Recently emerging computing and assistive technology have been used to attempt to improve the quality of life for people with dementia..
The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussion on challenges and opportunities in bringing technology to support people with dementia. The workshop will feature the theme of ‘engaging people with pervasive technology’.
Research topics included in the workshop
This workshop will feature the theme of ‘engaging people with pervasive technology’ in dementia research. Researchers from academic, healthcare, industrial and third party organisations are invited to contribute. Early researchers and researchers from healthcare are particularly welcome. Research areas include, but are not limited to:
Theme 1 – What are the opportunities of pervasive care technology?
Development of pervasive ICT systems
Human computer interface design
Behaviour monitoring and activity recognition
Knowledge representation and dissemination
Data analysis and interpretation
Sensor design and application
Theme 2 – User engagement
Key issues emerging when working with people who have decreased capacity for consent
Ethical issues for implementation
Methods for engagement
Pitfalls of engaging people with dementia, their carers and intermediate users
Important dates
Submission deadline: 25th February 2011
Notification of acceptance: 25th March 2011
Camera-ready copy due: 4th April 2011
Conference / Workshop: 23rd – 26th / 23rd May 2011
Format
Submitted papers should not be longer than 4 pages in standard IEEE two-column format.
For more detailed formatting instructions please see http://www.pervasivehealth.org/?page_name=author_skit.
Accepted papers will be published online in IEEE Xplore Digital Library (to be confirmed).
Dublin, Ireland, 23 May 2011
http://trail.ulster.ac.uk/pcpdc/
To be held in conjunction with the 5th International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2011
The global population of persons aged 60 and over is rising dramatically. Between 2006 and 2050, the number of people aged 60 and over will double from 650 million to 2 billion people representing 22% of humanity. One group of the ageing population that is particularly vulnerable to loss of independence is those affected by dementia. It is estimated that around 820,000 people in the UK have dementia. Recently emerging computing and assistive technology have been used to attempt to improve the quality of life for people with dementia..
The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussion on challenges and opportunities in bringing technology to support people with dementia. The workshop will feature the theme of ‘engaging people with pervasive technology’.
Research topics included in the workshop
This workshop will feature the theme of ‘engaging people with pervasive technology’ in dementia research. Researchers from academic, healthcare, industrial and third party organisations are invited to contribute. Early researchers and researchers from healthcare are particularly welcome. Research areas include, but are not limited to:
Theme 1 – What are the opportunities of pervasive care technology?
Development of pervasive ICT systems
Human computer interface design
Behaviour monitoring and activity recognition
Knowledge representation and dissemination
Data analysis and interpretation
Sensor design and application
Theme 2 – User engagement
Key issues emerging when working with people who have decreased capacity for consent
Ethical issues for implementation
Methods for engagement
Pitfalls of engaging people with dementia, their carers and intermediate users
Important dates
Submission deadline: 25th February 2011
Notification of acceptance: 25th March 2011
Camera-ready copy due: 4th April 2011
Conference / Workshop: 23rd – 26th / 23rd May 2011
Format
Submitted papers should not be longer than 4 pages in standard IEEE two-column format.
For more detailed formatting instructions please see http://www.pervasivehealth.org/?page_name=author_skit.
Accepted papers will be published online in IEEE Xplore Digital Library (to be confirmed).
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Call for Papers - 2011 CHI Workshop on Bridging Practices, Theories, and Technologies to Support Reminiscence
CALL FOR PAPERS
CHI Workshop on Bridging Practices, Theories, and Technologies to Support Reminiscence 2011
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~danco/remchiwork/
CHI 2011 Workshop
This one-day workshop explores how HCI-related practice and research can understand and support reminiscence. The workshop has two main goals. First, we hope to bring together academics and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines, levels of experience, and approaches to studying and supporting reminiscing. Second, we hope to explore a variety of topics around current and potential uses of technology to support reminiscence, including but not limited to:
- understanding people's current practices around reminiscing;
- exploring empirical studies and theories of memory that might inform technology designs;
- presenting, critiquing, and evaluating existing technologies for reminiscence,
- considering how technology might support new reminiscing practices, and
- supporting social aspects of reminiscence.
We are particularly interested in participants from outside the CHI community to foster new perspectives and collaborations. Our plan is to conduct three short discussion-focused panels organized around participants' interests. Those discussions will ground small groups in articulating interesting directions, studies, designs, and outlines of potential grant and book proposals at the intersection of reminiscing and technology
SUBMISSION
Interested participants should mail position papers of up to 6 pages in .pdf versions of the CHI Extended Abstracts format to danco at cs.cornell.edu by January 14, 2011. Papers should clearly express how the authors' participation will further the goals of the workshop: what do authors offer and hope to gain by participating? They should also clearly, but briefly, present participating authors' backgrounds, in order to support our goals of creating a diverse group of participants.
We will notify accepted participants on or before February 11, 2001. A limited amount of funding will be available, primarily to support attendance for people from other disciplines who are not regular CHI attendees. The workshop will be held on Sunday May 8, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. Please note that at least one author of an accepted position paper must register for the workshop and for one or more days of the CHI 2011 conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Jan 14, 2011: Position papers due
- Feb 11, 2011: Notifications of participation
- Apr 1, 2011: Final versions of position papers (to be shared with other participants)
- May 8, 2011: (Sunday) The workshop! (Here's the list of all workshops.)
- May 9-12 2011: CHI itself
ORGANIZERS
- Dan Cosley, Information Science, Cornell University danco at cs.cornell.edu
- Maurice Mulvenna, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster md.mulvenna at ulster.ac.uk
- Victoria Schwanda, Information Science, Cornell University vls48 at cornell.edu
- S. Tejaswi Peesapati, Information Science, Cornell University stp53 at cornell.edu
CHI Workshop on Bridging Practices, Theories, and Technologies to Support Reminiscence 2011
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~danco/remchiwork/
CHI 2011 Workshop
This one-day workshop explores how HCI-related practice and research can understand and support reminiscence. The workshop has two main goals. First, we hope to bring together academics and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds, disciplines, levels of experience, and approaches to studying and supporting reminiscing. Second, we hope to explore a variety of topics around current and potential uses of technology to support reminiscence, including but not limited to:
- understanding people's current practices around reminiscing;
- exploring empirical studies and theories of memory that might inform technology designs;
- presenting, critiquing, and evaluating existing technologies for reminiscence,
- considering how technology might support new reminiscing practices, and
- supporting social aspects of reminiscence.
We are particularly interested in participants from outside the CHI community to foster new perspectives and collaborations. Our plan is to conduct three short discussion-focused panels organized around participants' interests. Those discussions will ground small groups in articulating interesting directions, studies, designs, and outlines of potential grant and book proposals at the intersection of reminiscing and technology
SUBMISSION
Interested participants should mail position papers of up to 6 pages in .pdf versions of the CHI Extended Abstracts format to danco at cs.cornell.edu by January 14, 2011. Papers should clearly express how the authors' participation will further the goals of the workshop: what do authors offer and hope to gain by participating? They should also clearly, but briefly, present participating authors' backgrounds, in order to support our goals of creating a diverse group of participants.
We will notify accepted participants on or before February 11, 2001. A limited amount of funding will be available, primarily to support attendance for people from other disciplines who are not regular CHI attendees. The workshop will be held on Sunday May 8, 2011 in Vancouver, Canada. Please note that at least one author of an accepted position paper must register for the workshop and for one or more days of the CHI 2011 conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Jan 14, 2011: Position papers due
- Feb 11, 2011: Notifications of participation
- Apr 1, 2011: Final versions of position papers (to be shared with other participants)
- May 8, 2011: (Sunday) The workshop! (Here's the list of all workshops.)
- May 9-12 2011: CHI itself
ORGANIZERS
- Dan Cosley, Information Science, Cornell University danco at cs.cornell.edu
- Maurice Mulvenna, School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Ulster md.mulvenna at ulster.ac.uk
- Victoria Schwanda, Information Science, Cornell University vls48 at cornell.edu
- S. Tejaswi Peesapati, Information Science, Cornell University stp53 at cornell.edu
Friday, December 3, 2010
h2cm and clinical equipoise
The past few weeks reading the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice - I've encountered the concept of equipoise: specifically the clinical form.
The Health Career - Care Domains - Model is all about 'poise'.
Medicine, health and social care constantly exercises us. We are whether or not we recognize it on a balance board. In fact if you consider that image and then factor in the complexity of health care today you realise just how much stuff (technology), how many people (subjects, agents) need to be on that same board. Who does the board belong to though? Well of course it's -
The April 2010 issue of the above journal is a fascinating read. I noticed today that some of our placement students were not aware of the recent and current position regarding health policy: that is the 'long view' of decades such as: Health of the Nation, the National Service Frameworks, Darzi ... They need to address that and I'm sure they will.
This journal issue prompts me to consider evidence based medicine anew, especially:
The past week or two I've also noticed several mentions of the need to nudge people - here and there - both in the media and in Bogdan-Lovis and Holmes-Rovner's paper and references.
More to follow - and as you step-off take care ....
Wilson, K. (2010) Evidence-based medicine. The good the bad and the ugly. A clinician's perspective. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 16, 398-400.
Bogdan-Lovis, E., Holmes-Rovner, M. (2010) Prudent evidence-fettered shared decision making. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 16, 376-381.
And for the week ahead:
One mind, many minds - ONE PLANET. One need, many needs - ONE PLANET: what price stability?
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2009/02/one-mind-many-minds-one-planet-one-need.html
The Health Career - Care Domains - Model is all about 'poise'.
The model's care domains provides the perfect workout.
Medicine, health and social care constantly exercises us. We are whether or not we recognize it on a balance board. In fact if you consider that image and then factor in the complexity of health care today you realise just how much stuff (technology), how many people (subjects, agents) need to be on that same board. Who does the board belong to though? Well of course it's -
Jo (off-balance, strengths depleted, sick (and tired), prone to relapse, bank poleaxed...) Public's !
The April 2010 issue of the above journal is a fascinating read. I noticed today that some of our placement students were not aware of the recent and current position regarding health policy: that is the 'long view' of decades such as: Health of the Nation, the National Service Frameworks, Darzi ... They need to address that and I'm sure they will.
This journal issue prompts me to consider evidence based medicine anew, especially:
- How long it's been around - some 20 years.
- Its occupying the SCIENCES domain, with its weight threatening to overbalance all (you could say it's a significant singularity).
- The realization that the Emperor is short on clothes.
- Given the above it can mature. Bogdan-Lovis and Holmes-Rovner (2010)
Equipoise is the heart of the shared decision making movement, and it embodies the problems for which patient decision aids are most often developed to explain the risks and benefits of competing alternatives. p.377.h2cm is well suited to this task on so many levels.
The past week or two I've also noticed several mentions of the need to nudge people - here and there - both in the media and in Bogdan-Lovis and Holmes-Rovner's paper and references.
More to follow - and as you step-off take care ....
Wilson, K. (2010) Evidence-based medicine. The good the bad and the ugly. A clinician's perspective. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 16, 398-400.
Bogdan-Lovis, E., Holmes-Rovner, M. (2010) Prudent evidence-fettered shared decision making. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 16, 376-381.
And for the week ahead:
One mind, many minds - ONE PLANET. One need, many needs - ONE PLANET: what price stability?
http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2009/02/one-mind-many-minds-one-planet-one-need.html
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Rhinos, evidence based medicine and 'out-reach'
It would be be marvellous to be able to introduce h2cm to the nursing, health and social care communities in Asia, especially China. According to Flag Counter just two visitors. There are the good - effective ways of doing that and the not so good. How the following measures up I'm not sure...
Working in health we are surely aware of the need to base what we do on evidence. Although nurses are not necessarily independent as the patient advocate. Advocacy is still an important part of the nursing role and one requiring specific advice in some instances.
Earlier this month a Guardian article related the ever more precarious position of the South African rhino and how claims about the curative properties of rhino horn as a medicine fuels poaching. The UK is nowhere near South Africa or China so what gives? What gives is the Planet, the tiger too and the biosphere in general. Apparently rhino horn is just compacted keratin and has no medicinal properties.
Nurses tend to be a green, ecologically minded group and the best source of change comes from within. It is never easy to change the beliefs of others, especially when your culture venerates its elders. Belief also remains a powerful factor in health. Despite this do nurses not have a duty to challenge beliefs that are wrong, to educate their communities?
What price true literacy: spiritual, 3Rs, ICT, health, environmental ....?
As we make a difference individually with patients and carers ... collectively can we extend our reach to other communities too? While there's still time - and we try not to bite our nails.
Interesting and clearly ironic in the UK that after a generation public health is to have a new service with a return to the local authorities.
Working in health we are surely aware of the need to base what we do on evidence. Although nurses are not necessarily independent as the patient advocate. Advocacy is still an important part of the nursing role and one requiring specific advice in some instances.
Earlier this month a Guardian article related the ever more precarious position of the South African rhino and how claims about the curative properties of rhino horn as a medicine fuels poaching. The UK is nowhere near South Africa or China so what gives? What gives is the Planet, the tiger too and the biosphere in general. Apparently rhino horn is just compacted keratin and has no medicinal properties.
Nurses tend to be a green, ecologically minded group and the best source of change comes from within. It is never easy to change the beliefs of others, especially when your culture venerates its elders. Belief also remains a powerful factor in health. Despite this do nurses not have a duty to challenge beliefs that are wrong, to educate their communities?
What price true literacy: spiritual, 3Rs, ICT, health, environmental ....?
There must be a way for nurses to unite on this -
across cultures, borders, digital barricades, politics, beliefs ....
As we make a difference individually with patients and carers ... collectively can we extend our reach to other communities too? While there's still time - and we try not to bite our nails.
Interesting and clearly ironic in the UK that after a generation public health is to have a new service with a return to the local authorities.
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Buller and Butterworth: Skilled nursing practice - four domains?
The health care domains model identifies four domains within health and social care and medicine. What evidence is there to support the model's inclusion of:
- plus the spiritual within and without? Steve Buller and Tony Butterworth undertook a ethnographic study in 2001 'Skilled nursing practice - a qualitative study of the elements of nursing'. With skilled nursing practice at the center (Fig. 5.) they identified:
There is some overlap, reflection arises in relating and communicating and doing the job. Overall however there is a definite correspondence between these domains and those within h2cm - the health care domains conceptual framework. I have equated being professional with the SOCIOLOGY domain as for the authors this includes being with patients, conveying confidence, handling situations, being informed. Managing and facilitating is undoubtedly POLITICAL with supervising, auditing, making sure things get done. Doing the job - is based upon planning, informing, assessing, intervening, and being confident (with equipment, procedures, manual dexterity..?).
Having been thinking and writing about h2cm for many years it is a shame that other models have benefitted from funding and gain "ward and community (research) cred" while here evidence is retrofitted. Looking at the paper just in the decade since submission and publication I wonder which elements remain local, and where other elements of the skills base (care concepts) have migrated to ethnographically?
Steve Buller, Tony Butterworth (2001) Skilled nursing practice — a qualitative study of the elements of nursing. Int. J. of Nursing Studies. 38, 4, 405-417.
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
- plus the spiritual within and without? Steve Buller and Tony Butterworth undertook a ethnographic study in 2001 'Skilled nursing practice - a qualitative study of the elements of nursing'. With skilled nursing practice at the center (Fig. 5.) they identified:
| relating and communicating | doing the job |
| being professional | managing and facilitating |
There is some overlap, reflection arises in relating and communicating and doing the job. Overall however there is a definite correspondence between these domains and those within h2cm - the health care domains conceptual framework. I have equated being professional with the SOCIOLOGY domain as for the authors this includes being with patients, conveying confidence, handling situations, being informed. Managing and facilitating is undoubtedly POLITICAL with supervising, auditing, making sure things get done. Doing the job - is based upon planning, informing, assessing, intervening, and being confident (with equipment, procedures, manual dexterity..?).
Having been thinking and writing about h2cm for many years it is a shame that other models have benefitted from funding and gain "ward and community (research) cred" while here evidence is retrofitted. Looking at the paper just in the decade since submission and publication I wonder which elements remain local, and where other elements of the skills base (care concepts) have migrated to ethnographically?
Steve Buller, Tony Butterworth (2001) Skilled nursing practice — a qualitative study of the elements of nursing. Int. J. of Nursing Studies. 38, 4, 405-417.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Wonk - and the comprehensive health record
As the future unfolds the day will emerge when a 'wonk' - that is, "someone meant to know everything" (Prospect Magazine, Dec 2010, p. 19) is realised in software (or in a termin-ological mix with some "I'll be back" hardware).
The Internet is already envisaged as a giant global graph - a vast intelligence. The health care domains model provides a framework - a graph - to capture what someone or some group of people know about a situation. Policy, practice and values are often rightly based and measured against ideals. In health (and social-) care the comprehensive health record is the ideal. Throw information technology into the mix and you have an ideal of Platonic proportions.
Can you have a complete and ongoing record and still work smart and Lean?
The Internet is already envisaged as a giant global graph - a vast intelligence. The health care domains model provides a framework - a graph - to capture what someone or some group of people know about a situation. Policy, practice and values are often rightly based and measured against ideals. In health (and social-) care the comprehensive health record is the ideal. Throw information technology into the mix and you have an ideal of Platonic proportions.
Can you have a complete and ongoing record and still work smart and Lean?
I don't wonk, do you?
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The Beauty of Diagrams: Vitruvian Man BBC Four
Tomorrow a new six part series begins on BBC Four.
Diagrams, conceptual frameworks and cognitive spaces have driven my interest in models of care and h2cm for decades:
Chronology
I also maintain a diagrams listing on the sciences domain listing, suggestions welcome.
So, really looking forward to this!
Diagrams, conceptual frameworks and cognitive spaces have driven my interest in models of care and h2cm for decades:
| 1996 | Peter attends 'Thinking with Diagrams' Colloquium, IEE, Savoy Place, London. | 18 Jan BCS-SGES et al. Professional Group C4: Digest No: 96/010 |
I also maintain a diagrams listing on the sciences domain listing, suggestions welcome.
So, really looking forward to this!
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Grand Challenges for Global Health: 15th - access to clean, clear, knowledge
Dear HIFA2015 colleagues,
The news item below is forwarded from the Global Health Council, which reports the mHealth Summit taking place this week in washington DC. It is especially good to see that Bill Gates is giving a keynote address. This suggests that the Gates Foundation may be poised to address the 15th Grand Challenge for Global Health, as proposed by international health leaders in The Lancet:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673606680501/fulltext
When HIFA2015 was in planning back in 2006, the lead author of the above paper, Dr Tikki Pang (Director of Research policy and Cooperation at WHO) said: 'HIFA2015 is an ambitious goal but it can be achieved if all stakeholders work together'. Bill and Melinda Gates are critical stakeholders. I look forward to see Bill Gates' presentation. Will the Gates Foundation take up the 15th Challenge? Will the Gates Foundation prioritise the challenge of health information for all by 2015?
Bill Gates keynote yesterday is not yet available on the web, but it will be soon at: http://mhealthsummit.org/conference/live-webcast
I hope that Bill Gates will use this opportunity to articulate a clear and specific vision from the Gates Foundation: a vision of a world where people are no longer dying for lack of access to appropriate, reliable healthcare information. With their support, there is no doubt this vision can and will be realised.
With best wishes,
Neil
HIFA2015 profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is the coordinator of the HIFA2015 campaign and co-director of the Global Healthcare Information Network. He started his career as a hospital doctor in the UK, and has clinical experience in rural Ecuador and Peru. For the last 20 years he has been committed to improving the availability of healthcare information for health workers in developing countries. He has worked with the World Health Organization, the Wellcome Trust, Medicine Digest and INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications). www.hifa2015.org neil.pakenham-walsh AT ghi-net.org
My source: www.hifa2015.org
The news item below is forwarded from the Global Health Council, which reports the mHealth Summit taking place this week in washington DC. It is especially good to see that Bill Gates is giving a keynote address. This suggests that the Gates Foundation may be poised to address the 15th Grand Challenge for Global Health, as proposed by international health leaders in The Lancet:
"The Gates Foundation identified fourteen challenges [Grand Challenges for Global Health] but a fifteenth challenge stares us plainly in the face: The 15th challenge is to ensure that everyone in the world can have access to clean, clear, knowledge - a basic human right, and a public health need as important as access to clean, clear, water, and much more easily achievable."Tikki Pang (WHO), Muir Gray (NHS, UK), and Tim Evans (WHO): 'A 15th grand challenge for global public health.' The Lancet 2006; 367:284-286.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673606680501/fulltext
When HIFA2015 was in planning back in 2006, the lead author of the above paper, Dr Tikki Pang (Director of Research policy and Cooperation at WHO) said: 'HIFA2015 is an ambitious goal but it can be achieved if all stakeholders work together'. Bill and Melinda Gates are critical stakeholders. I look forward to see Bill Gates' presentation. Will the Gates Foundation take up the 15th Challenge? Will the Gates Foundation prioritise the challenge of health information for all by 2015?
Bill Gates keynote yesterday is not yet available on the web, but it will be soon at: http://mhealthsummit.org/conference/live-webcast
I hope that Bill Gates will use this opportunity to articulate a clear and specific vision from the Gates Foundation: a vision of a world where people are no longer dying for lack of access to appropriate, reliable healthcare information. With their support, there is no doubt this vision can and will be realised.
With best wishes,
Neil
HIFA2015 profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is the coordinator of the HIFA2015 campaign and co-director of the Global Healthcare Information Network. He started his career as a hospital doctor in the UK, and has clinical experience in rural Ecuador and Peru. For the last 20 years he has been committed to improving the availability of healthcare information for health workers in developing countries. He has worked with the World Health Organization, the Wellcome Trust, Medicine Digest and INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications). www.hifa2015.org neil.pakenham-walsh AT ghi-net.org
My source: www.hifa2015.org
Friday, November 5, 2010
Information Revolution and Greater Choice and Control - webchat Nov 9
Put your questions about the Information Revolution and Greater Choice and Control direct to Andrew Lansley, Secretary of State for Health, on November 9 at 1.30pm.
People can ask questions in advance by emailing:
informationrevolution AT dh.gsi.gov.uk - or -
The webchat will be available from November 9 at www.dh.gov.uk/informationrevolution and you can watch the live Q&A on screen, ask questions and leave comments. We will also be tweeting Andrew Lansley's answers and the comments we receive. A transcript of the webchat will be available on the website after the event.
I would be grateful if you could bring this to the attention of any interested individuals or groups.
With best wishes
Anne Cooper
National Clinical Lead for Nursing
Office of the Chief Clinical Officer
NHS Connecting for Health
anne.cooper AT nhs.net
http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk
NHS Connecting for Health supports the NHS in providing better, safer care by delivering computer systems and services which improve the way patient information is stored and accessed.
Additional link:
http://conversations.dh.gov.uk/2010/10/17/home/
My source:
British Computer Society Nursing Specialist Group
People can ask questions in advance by emailing:
informationrevolution AT dh.gsi.gov.uk - or -
by Tweeting their question, using the hashtag #inforevolution.
The webchat will be available from November 9 at www.dh.gov.uk/informationrevolution and you can watch the live Q&A on screen, ask questions and leave comments. We will also be tweeting Andrew Lansley's answers and the comments we receive. A transcript of the webchat will be available on the website after the event.
I would be grateful if you could bring this to the attention of any interested individuals or groups.
With best wishes
Anne Cooper
National Clinical Lead for Nursing
Office of the Chief Clinical Officer
NHS Connecting for Health
anne.cooper AT nhs.net
http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk
NHS Connecting for Health supports the NHS in providing better, safer care by delivering computer systems and services which improve the way patient information is stored and accessed.
Additional link:
http://conversations.dh.gov.uk/2010/10/17/home/
My source:
British Computer Society Nursing Specialist Group
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
New: The Journal of Humanities and Information Systems
Dear colleagues
It is my pleasure to announce a new journal, published by IBIMA, that will cater for articles in the interdisciplinary field of Information Systems and the Humanities (JHIS). This is a call for submissions for the first edtion of JHIS.
JOURNAL DESCRIPTION
The Journal of Humanities and Information Systems (JHIS) is an international peer reviewed and applied research journal that publishes papers on the symbiotic relationship between the two disciplines of Information Systems and the Humanities. Its unique focus will be research on Humanities-enriched IS, but other Humanities-Computing papers and case studies will also be considered. All papers will be subjected to a multiple blind peer review process. Papers should contribute to the existing body of knowledge of the domain in terms of theory and/or practice.
MISSION
JHIS aims to create an international forum to discuss and evaluate studies that implement theoretical constructs borrowed from the Humanities in various aspects of Information Systems, as well as investigations regarding the application of information technology in the Humanities. The creation of
publication opportunities for research with refreshing angles, some borrowed from other sciences, is a conscious effort to share interest and useful research and to counteract rigid procedures that are "stifling the intellectual advancement of our discipline" (Shoib and Nandhakumar, 2009).
SCOPE
Topics of interest for this journal include, but are not limited to, the following list:
- Linguistics and Information Systems
- History and Information Systems
- Art and Information Systems
- Philosophy and Information Systems
- Law and Information Systems
- Hermeneutics and Information Systems
Since there still are limited publication opportunities for Information System scientists (cf. Straub, 2009:v) in comparison with some other older, well-established disciplines, new opportunities should be embraced and used in order to build our discipline. Therefore, our colleagues are invited to submit some of their research outputs to this new outlet.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS AND PEER REVIEWERS
Please let me know if you would be interested to become an associate editor or peer reviewer of JHIS.
The editors and reviewers of JHIS should be like diamond miners taking a positive view while looking for "exciting forays into new research domains" (Straub, 2009:vii). The general aim in the review processes of this new journal will be to be inclusive and developmental rather than to perform "a
modern hygiene ritual", because we agree with Wastell and MacMaster (2008:64) that "a high rejection rate implies a collective failure of scholarship not the intellectual prosperity of a field".
For more information about the journal and submissions, see:
http://www.ibimapublishing.com/journals/JHIS/jhis.html
Jan H. Kroeze, School of Computing, University of South Africa
(editor-in-chief)
My source:
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 451
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 24, No. 451
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
www.digitalhumanities.org/humanist
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Care origin(s) and open access #OAW2010
The most striking and ubiquitous presence in the health career model is its basic diagrammatic form. The image at left provides some mathematical additions and there at the center is the origin.In this respect the model (literally) draws our attention to the identification of the care problems, constraints, strengths, solutions that affect the individual with whom we are engaged. We are immediately aware that there is inevitably more than one aspect to consider.
To save repetition I am only going to refer to problems. So, the model's form highlights that there is no single origin of problems, but many. At some time a problem, for example physical, may become the priority. Then the SCIENCES domain is critical. Deprivation of liberty concerns may split the priority creating tension across the INTER-intraPERSONAL and POLITICAL domains.
As priorities are dealt with there needs to be a return to the -
origin.
The question is asked: in which care domains do the problems lie? We call this re-assessment and evaluation.
In Open Access Week the health care model is also 'open access'. Not just in terms of being a free, accessible resource available to all, but being discipline agnostic, neutral and applicable across cultures and ethnic groups. The model is also open in terms of mindset. The users of h2cm provide that and as they do open* and origin-al care unique to the individual has a chance to follow.
*Open care? Mmm...
Image source: origin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coordinate_with_Origin.svg
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