Individuals who discuss politics and current events in their social network also participate in civic activities. However, analytical biases make it difficult to show a causal relationship between these two phenomena. To obtain a more accurate measurement of the effect that civic talk has on civic participation, data were collected through a panel study conducted on students who were randomly a...

Ubiquitous Computing (UC) has the potential to improve many workflows in Health Care. In hospitals clinicians move around constantly between very different work places and need to have fast access to information. Consequently, classical solutions, bound to a particular location, are often inadequate for optimal support of clinical workflows. In this paper the authors report ongoing work in R&D ...