Towards a more participative television

"Towards « Participative » Multinationals"

[Looking for a more participative healthcare: sharing medical decision making].

The healthcare model is shifting from a paternalistic towards a more inclusive and participative approach, such as shared decision making (SDM). SDM considers patients as autonomous and responsible agents. SDM is a therapeutic approach where healthcare providers and patients share the best evidence available to make a decision according to the values and preferences of the patient. Decision aid...

NoTube: Making Television More Personal

The NoTube European project looks at creating the future of TV, in which the TV user will be placed back in the driver’s seat by having a personalized TV experience with rich interaction possibilities. For this, new technologies like Linked Data, Semantic Web and Social Web data analysis are applied to the TV domain. The ultimate goal of the EU project NoTube is to develop an adaptive end-to-en...

Towards a New Framework for Evaluating Systemic and Participative Methods

Systems practitioners often make significant claims for the value of their methodologies and methods. However, when evidence is presented to support these claims, it is usually based solely on the practitioner’s own reflections on single case studies. Less often, practitioners set up post-intervention debriefings with project participants using questionnaires. While the latter is an improvement...

Television food advertising directed towards Bulgarian children.

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is a serious health problem worldwide with a prevalence rising to epidemic proportions. Television viewing is suspected as an important contributor and along with food advertisements significantly influence children's unhealthy dietary habits, purchase requests and adiposity. OBJECTIVES To examine the exposure of Bulgarian children to television food advertising a...