BU Good Work Initiative

patient safety friendly hospital initiative: does it work in iran?

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Mixed-Initiative Interfaces for Collaborative Creative Work

Drawing on a series of projects aimed at supporting collaborative creative work, I propose that it is pertinent to explore how mixed-iniative interfaces can be developed to support, enrich, and tranform existing forms of collaborative creative work, and potentially create novel forms of collaborative creativity. I outline three questions for discussion at the workshop: How can we leverage input...

Ten principles of good interdisciplinary team work

BACKGROUND Interdisciplinary team work is increasingly prevalent, supported by policies and practices that bring care closer to the patient and challenge traditional professional boundaries. To date, there has been a great deal of emphasis on the processes of team work, and in some cases, outcomes. METHOD This study draws on two sources of knowledge to identify the attributes of a good interd...

Good computational manners: Mixed-initiative dialog in conversational agents

Polite behavior in intelligent conversational systems requires mixed-initiative dialog. AutoTutor is an intelligent tutoring system in which several of these conversational skills are implemented. This paper discusses some aspects of mixed-initiative dialog, as implemented in AutoTutor ranging from discourse markers, dialog moves and speech acts to question answering. In addition some of the st...

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