Digital touch for remote personal communication: An emergent sociotechnical imaginary

Sociotechnical Challenges of Developing an Interoperable Personal Health Record

Objectives: To analyze sociotechnical issues involved in the process of developing an interoperable commercial Personal Health Record (PHR) in a hospital setting, and to create guidelines for future PHR implementations. Methods: This qualitative study utilized observational research and semi-structured interviews with 8 members of the hospital team, as gathered over a 28 week period of developi...

InfoFlo: a novel communication infrastructure for personal digital assistants

Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are becoming commonplace, and feature continually increasing processing and storage capabilities. Distribution of media through wireless means to these devices is becoming less expensive, but is not yet wide spread. In this paper, we describe a novel communication infrastructure to provide distribution of information to PDAs utilizing inexpensive methods; our ...

A personal digital assistant as an advanced remote control for audio/video equipment

This paper describes a personal digital assistant that is used as a catalogue and advanced remote control to browse, select and play music in a compact disc jukebox. The application has been developed as a research prototype to identify advantages and disadvantages of different interaction styles for accessing large amounts of content. The basic concept provides easy access to a personal music ...

The Personal Touch

Preference for Personal, Non-Erotic Touch

The researchers were interested in the preference for touch and how it relates to other personality characteristics because of the previous research about how touch can convey emotions and feelings. Researchers conducted a pilot study to obtain scenarios that might be beneficial to use in creating a preference for touch scale. They developed the scale and posted the scale online as well as a li...