Communicating With Farmers About Environmental Issues

Communicating with Patients about Harms and Risks

E verything that doctors and other health workers do involves communication about the benefi ts and harms to be expected from interventions—whether they are therapeutic, diagnostic, or prophylactic. As health-care professionals, we need to share our understanding and perceptions of benefi ts and harms with patients and their families as fully as we can. We also have to share them with other pro...

Communicating with Navigation Systems about Places

The aim of this research is to investigate the initial phase of route communication with a navigation system: the specification of a route by an origin and a destination. Comparing inputting of a place description to the ways that people communicate about places with each other, we observe gaps impacting the usability and efficiency of navigation systems. From these gaps we identify future rese...

Communicating with the Public about Integrative Medicine

Communicating about screening.

People are offered a wide range of screening tests by diverse providers. For example: maternal and child health services screen for genetic conditions and developmental problems; general practitioners screen for cardiovascular risk factors; NHS programmes screen for bowel, breast, and cervical cancer; and commercial providers offer various health assessments, including body and gene scans. Prov...

Communicating generalizations about events

Habitual sentences (e.g. Bill smokes.) generalize an event over time, but how do you know when a habitual sentence is true? We develop a computational model and use this to guide experiments into the truth conditions of habitual language. In Expts. 1 & 2, we measure participants’ prior expectations about the frequency with which an event occurs and validate the predictions of the model for when...