BACKGROUND In medical practice, obtaining information regarding patients' undisclosed "feelings of anxiety" or "depressive feelings" is important. The purpose of this study was to determine which interview skills are best suited for eliciting verbal indications of undisclosed feelings, for example anxiety or depressive feelings in patients. METHODS Our group videotaped 159 medical interviews ...

We develop a governance framework for open collaboration, specifically for the process of collaborative content creation. Our analysis is based on in-depth interviews with 12 active Wikipedians using the repertory grid method. The framework reflects the governance of wiki-based peer production by identifying the different structures, processes and mechanisms which guide and control the contribu...

PURPOSE Considering that noncompliance to glaucoma treatment is one of the risk factors associated with disease s progression, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate: 1) knowledge and feelings about the disease; 2) self-reported noncompliance to treatment and related factors; and 3) influence of disease in lifestyle. METHODS Interviews, with application of a semi-structured question...

Method In a qualitative study, nurses working in an accident and emergency unit were asked to participate in an interview on the last resuscitation effort that they either participated in or performed themselves. The debriefing that followed this last resuscitation effort was used to explore the quality of the debriefing that the nurses received. With random sampling on the days of the intervie...

Previous research shows that organization architecture relates to the architecture of a product under development, and recent studies compare proprietary versus open source software (OSS) as examples of integrated and distributed forms of software development, respectively. This study goes a step further to investigate the correspondence of organization and product architectures by comparing si...

The following excerpts are from an interview with Marvin Minsky which took place at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on January 23rd, 1991. The interview, which is included in its entirety as a Foreword in the book Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition (edited by Mira Balaban, Kemal Ebcioglu, and Otto Laske), is a conversation about music, its peculiar features as a ...

The authors examined the accuracy of information elicited from seventy-nine 5- to 7-year-old children about a staged event that included physical contact-touching. Four to six weeks later, children's recall for the event was assessed using an interview protocol analogous to those used in forensic investigations with children. Following the verbal interview, children were asked about touch when ...

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Open-Steps (http://www.open-steps.org/) is an initiative we, Alex Corbi (Software Developer, Spanish) and Margo Thierry (European Union Affairs/Politics Associate, French) two young Berliners, undertook to explore where Open Knowledge (OK) projects are underway and how they are being implemented in various sectors. We decided to travel the world for one year to accomplish this goal. We began in...

Connectivist massive open online courses (cMOOCs) represent an important new pedagogical approach ideally suited to the network age. However, little is known about how the learning experience afforded by cMOOCs is suited to learners with different skills, motivations, and dispositions. In this study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 29 participants on the Change11 cMOOC. These acc...