Can Methods Do Good?

Can one do good medical ethics without principles?

The criteria for determining what it is to do good medical ethics are the quality of ethical analysis and ethical justifications for decisions and actions. Justifications for decisions and actions rely on ethical principles, be they the 'famous four' or subsidiary ethical principles relevant to specific contexts. Examples from clinical ethics, research ethics and public health ethics reveal tha...

Do people ask good questions?

People ask questions in order to efficiently learn about the world. But do people ask good questions? In this work, we designed an intuitive, gamebased task that allowed people to ask natural language questions to resolve their uncertainty. Question quality was measured through Bayesian idealobserver models that considered large spaces of possible game states. During free-form question generati...

When Do Good Parameterizations Exist?

Good traceability codes do exist

Traceability codes are combinatorial objects introduced by Chor, Fiat and Naor in 1994 to be used to trace the origin of digital content in traitor tracing schemes. Let F be an alphabet set of size q and n be a positive integer. A t-traceability code is a code C ⊆ Fn which can be used to catch at least one colluder from a collusion of at most t traitors. It has been shown that t-traceability co...

Representations Can Be Good Enough

When working remotely with physical objects obvious problems of reference arise because of the lack of a mutually shared object. Systems aiming to support such work tend to be based on understandings of face-to-face interaction and frequently use video. However, video introduces new interactional problems. This paper describes a field study of remote interaction around objects that is telephone...