Answers to these questions can be found in new research conducted by Fahamu and the Centre for Adult Education. The study was conducted in nine Southern African countries, documenting for the first time, valuable information on the training and information needs and human rights priorities of CBOs surveyed. The survey was funded by the Foundation for Human Rights (FHR) and the Open Society Init...

This article presents the findings of a recent study which identified the image resources that professional user groups acknowledged were useful to their work processes. The information behaviors relating to images of several professional user groups-archaeologists , architects, art historians, and artists-were examined in a qualitative research study conducted in 2008-2009. Presented here are ...

Are gender issues in information needs and services really a “trend” worthy of examination in the first decade of the twenty-first century? Isn’t this a passé topic? Aren’t we well into the “post-feminist” era? As the editors of this issue, we answer these questions with a resounding “no!” Although North American society has made enormous strides in the past half-century, we have yet to reach t...

Information retrieval tries to identify relevant documents for an information need. The problems that an IR system should deal with include document indexing (which tries to extract important content from a document), user needs analysis (similar to document indexing but applied to a query), and their internal representation which makes them suitable for being explicitly manipulated by the corr...

Healthy living is an increasingly important topic on the agenda of policy makers. Containment of health care cost through public health and specific prevention programs is seen as a key element of the current social-economic policies in the western world. mHealth technology holds the promise to make healthy living more effective than traditional prevention programs. As part of a broad healthy l...

in addition to attention to natural light as a renewable, costless and environment-friendly source of energy in the late 20th century, numerous studies have been conducted into the effect of natural light on human being’s soul and body and all such studies reiterate the undeniable role of natural lighting on people’s behavior, attitudes, and efficiency. however, in spite of the awareness of the...

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Introduction Problem 1. Assisting the user in clarifying and analyzing the problem and determining information needs. Problem 2. Knowing how people use and process information. Problem Assembling a package of information that enables group the user to come closer to a solution of his problem. Includes Problems 3-5.

The Consumer Health Education Institute (CHEDI) has developed a model system to improve the quality and effectiveness of patient education and health communication. Through assessment of characteristics and preferences, segmentation into groups and matching with the appropriate materials, we have demonstrated that patients and health consumers have different health information needs and prefere...

The eViP Programme has conducted a survey on the current use of virtual patients across the EU and the wider global community. A total of 216 respondents have given feedback on the current and potential future use of virtual patients, including different educational settings and scenarios within which virtual patients have been used. Data has been gathered on different business models for acces...