Consumers of popular desktop software have been amused, appalled, occasionally assisted, and most likely infuriated by a Planning Wizard, an Office Assistant, or other manifestation of an interventionist help apparition. If not, then they have encountered a noninterventionist form of assistance, such as a standard context-sensitive help file. These are the manifestations of years of development...

The objective of this study was to determine the effects of an Injury and Illness Prevention (IIP) program intervention on occupational safety behavior among rice farmers in Nakhon Nayok Province, Thailand. This was a quasi-experimental study in an intervention group and a control group. It was carried out in two rice farming communities, in which most people are rice farmers with similar socio...

CONTEXT Using a patient and clinician educational intervention, we successfully reduced antibiotic use for uncomplicated acute bronchitis. The impact of this intervention on patient satisfaction is not known. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether a strategy for reducing antibiotic use in acute bronchitis affects satisfaction among adult patients. DESIGN Telephone survey administered 1 to 4 weeks af...

A method for selecting and rating scientific and professional journals representing the discipline of ergonomics and human factors is proposed. The method is based upon the journal list, impact factors and citations provided by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI), and the journal list published in the Ergonomics Abstracts. Three groups of journals were distinguished. The 'ergonomics j...