Professional formation through personal involvement and value integration

Personal professional identity formation through interprofessional learning and early patient encounter during preclinical years

Personal professional journeys.

It’s possible that you are reading this shortly after returning from the AOTA Annual Conference and Expo in Minneapolis. For those who were not able to attend, let me tell you a little about what the experience of “conferencing” is like—at least for me, a veteran of at least 20 conferences. In my early days as an occupational therapist, I attended Conference to hear about the newest assessments...

PERSPECTIVE - Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement

Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression “telling our own stories” is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar’s personal involvement in a field. (By personal involvement in a field, I mean a scholar’s engagement in a set of mental activities that connect her t...

1 Relaxing the Taboo on Telling our Own Stories : Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement

Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression “telling our own stories” is used as a proxy for field-research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar’s personal involvement in a field. (By personal involvement in a field, I mean a scholar’s engagement in a set of mental activities that connect her t...

Live, Personal Data Integration Through UI-Oriented Computing

This paper proposes a new perspective on the problem of data integration on the Web: the one of the Surface Web. It introduces the concept of UI-oriented computing as a computing paradigm whose core ingredient are the user interfaces that build up the Surface Web, and shows how a sensible mapping of data integration tasks to user interface elements and user interactions is able to cope with dat...