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Understanding Together: Sensemaking in Collaborative Information Seeking
"... An important aspect of collaborative information seeking (CIS) is making sense of the information found, i.e., collaborative sensemaking. We conducted an ethnographic study of the CIS practices of healthcare providers in a hospital emergency department to gain a conceptual understanding of when and ..."
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An important aspect of collaborative information seeking (CIS) is making sense of the information found, i.e., collaborative sensemaking. We conducted an ethnographic study of the CIS practices of healthcare providers in a hospital emergency department to gain a conceptual understanding of when and how collaborative sensemaking occurs during CIS activities. We present occasions and characteristics of collaborative sensemaking and design implications for collaborative information retrieval tools to support sensemaking. Author Keywords Collaborative sensemaking, collaborative information seeking, healthcare, emergency department. ACM Classification Keywords H5.m. Information interfaces and presentation: Group and organizational interfaces – computer-supported cooperative work.
The newfound credibility of qualitative research? Tales of technical essentialism and co-option
- Qualitative Health Research
, 2003
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Cottrell D: Health professionals in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams: Changing professional practice
- Journal of Interprofessional Care
"... The article draws on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded research project that aimed to investigate the reality behind the rhetoric of ‘‘joined up thinking’’. The research project was a qualitative, multi-method study involving three phases, including observation and documentary an ..."
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The article draws on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded research project that aimed to investigate the reality behind the rhetoric of ‘‘joined up thinking’’. The research project was a qualitative, multi-method study involving three phases, including observation and documentary analysis; interviews; and focus groups around decision making and knowledge sharing. The article reflects on the perspectives and experiences of health professionals and their colleagues in multi-agency teams about the impact of multi-agency teamwork on their professional knowledge and learning, and on their ways of working. Actual and potential conflicts between professionals are explored about models of understanding, about roles, identities, status and power, about information sharing, and around links with other agencies. Dilemmas of team building and of conflicting values and knowledge are exemplified from health professionals ’ accounts, using theoretical models of ‘‘communities of practice’ ’ and ‘‘activity theory’’. The article presents groups of strategies that health professionals and their colleagues in multi-agency, multi-professional teams use to overcome barriers and to strengthen team cohesion. The conclusion reflects on some implications of our findings in theory and practice for professionalism within integrated, multi-professional teams that are building new ways of working.
Investigation of staff and patients’ opinions of a proposed trial of elective single embryo transfer. Hum Reprod 2005;20
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Psychological barriers to Internet usage among older adults
- in the UK. Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine
, 2005
"... The Internet is an important tool in assisting the older population to lead independent and social lives. However, the majority of Internet users are under 55. This study investigated the following psychological barriers to Internet use by older adults: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, I ..."
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The Internet is an important tool in assisting the older population to lead independent and social lives. However, the majority of Internet users are under 55. This study investigated the following psychological barriers to Internet use by older adults: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, Internet efficacy, perceived complexity of navigation and perceived complexity of terminology. Twenty-three subjects (aged 55 – 75 years) were interviewed in the UK. The influences of age, computer and Internet experience, and training on these psychological barriers were explored. The results showed that the majority of the older adults who had a positive perception of usefulness, ease of use, and efficacy of the Internet or e-mail, used the Internet or e-mail more often. In addition, it was found that computer or Internet experience increased perceptions of ease of use and efficacy of the Internet and reduced perceived complexity of navigation. There was no difference between the two age groups (55 – 65 and 66 – 75 years) in these psychological barriers. It was concluded that increased marketing of the Internet (aimed at the older user), more simple and uniformly designed Internet pages, more user-friendly online help and error message terminology, and increased provision of training for the older user would assist uptake of the World Wide Web.
The post mortem paradox: a Delphi study of IT specialist perceptions European
- 78 R.R. (2008). IT Employment Prospects: Beyond the Dotcom Bubble, European Journal of Information Systems (2008
, 2008
"... While post mortem evaluation (PME) has long been advocated as a means of improving development practices by learning from IT project failures, few organizations conduct PMEs. The purpose of the study is to explain this discrepancy between theory and practice. This paper integrates findings from a De ..."
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While post mortem evaluation (PME) has long been advocated as a means of improving development practices by learning from IT project failures, few organizations conduct PMEs. The purpose of the study is to explain this discrepancy between theory and practice. This paper integrates findings from a Delphi study of what experienced practitioners perceive as the most important barriers to conducting PMEs with insights from organizational learning theory. The results suggest that there are critical tensions between development practices and learning contexts in many organizations, and adopting PMEs in these cases is likely to reinforce organizational learning dysfunctions rather than improve current development practices. Based on these findings, we argue that the PME literature has underestimated the limits to learning in most IT organizations and we propose to explore paradoxical thinking to help researchers frame continued inquiry into PME and to help managers overcome learning dysfunctions as they push for more widespread use of PMEs.
Climatological Summary
- Department of Commerce
, 1963
"... The effect of platelet activating factor on the motility and acrosome reaction of ram spermatozoa ..."
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The effect of platelet activating factor on the motility and acrosome reaction of ram spermatozoa
Manufacturing Social Exclusion in the Home Care Market." Canadian Public Policy XXVII(2
, 2001
"... Cet article examine comment la perspective des services de santé qui englobe les soins à domicile obscurcit l’ampleur des processus d’exclusion sociale qui se manifestent dans cette arène des politiques publiques. Une étude de femmes âgées et de femmes handicapées recevant des soins à domicile en On ..."
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Cet article examine comment la perspective des services de santé qui englobe les soins à domicile obscurcit l’ampleur des processus d’exclusion sociale qui se manifestent dans cette arène des politiques publiques. Une étude de femmes âgées et de femmes handicapées recevant des soins à domicile en Ontario révèle que les soins organisés dans la communauté génèrent et renforcent l’isolement social des usagers de ces services ainsi que leur exclusion spatiale, institutionnelle et politique. L’analyse des expériences des sujets partici-pant à cette étude met en évidence les défis à relever pour s’éloigner d’un discours de marché et d’une structure établie et pour développer une politique de soins à domicile qui parvienne à l’inclusion et à la participation des citoyens âgés et des handicapés ayant besoin d’une aide à domicile. This paper examines how the health care perspective which dominates home care obscures the broader processes of social exclusion that play out in this arena of public policy. A study of elderly women and women with disabilities receiving home care in Ontario reveals how managed community care generates and reinforces service users ’ social isolation and their spatial, institutional, and political exclusion. Analysis of study participants ’ experiences points to the challenges of moving away from a market discourse and a health framework to develop home care policy which achieves the inclusion and participation of elderly citizens and citizens with disabilities in need of assistance at home.
Understanding the Processes of Translation and Transliteration
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