Paulo Santos, University of Leeds Continued on p. 8 The last decade has seen the emergence of the new discipline of consciousness studies, which is now well established with journals (e.g. Cognition and Consciousness, Journal of Consciousness Studies), societies (ASSC, the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness), and conferences (the biennial Toward a Science of Consciousness, an...

Reducing the likelihood of human error in the use of interactive systems is increasingly important: the use of such systems is becoming widespread in applications that demand high reliability due to safety, security, financial or similar considerations. Consequently, the use of formal methods in verifying the correctness of interactive systems should also include analysis of human behaviour in ...

INTRODUCTION Patient handoffs are common during residency and are often performed with little or no training. We devised a simple intervention to improve the readiness of interns to perform handoffs. METHODS We administered a 90-minute interactive workshop during intern orientation in 2009 and 2010. It consisted of a discussion, a case presentation, and a trigger video, followed by debriefing...

The Proceedings of a one-day Workshop are described, in which publishers, publishing service providers, librarians, editors and authors met under the auspices of the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) to survey new developments in interactive scholarly publishing, and to begin to identify the necessary infrastructure for including such interactive content wit...