Creating patient-centered healthcare through ambient experience design

Added on 12 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
“Thanks to greater education and access to information, the Internet, and the growing awareness about well-being related issues, they know more and care more about their health than any generation before. So when they seek professional assistance and don’t find what they want, or feel it doesn’t meet their needs, they simply go elsewhere.” (Stefano Marzano – Philips Design) – courtesy of uxblog

Architecture of the World Wide Web, First edition

Added on 11 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
“The World Wide Web is a network-spanning information space of resources interconnected by links. This information space is the basis of, and is shared by, a number of information systems. Within each of these systems, agents (people and software) retrieve, create, display, analyze, and reason about resources. Web architecture includes the definition of the information space in terms of identification and representation of its contents, and of the protocols that support the interaction of agents in an information system making use of the space. Web architecture is influenced by social requirements and software engineering principles, leading to design choices that constrain the behavior of systems using the Web in order to achieve desired properties of the shared information space: efficiency, scalability, and the potential for indefinite growth across languages, cultures, and media. This document reflects the three bases of Web architecture: identification, interaction, and representation.” (W3C)

Buckets: Smart objects for digital libraries

Added on 11 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
“Buckets are an aggregative, intelligent construct for publishing in DLs allow the decoupling of information content from information storage and retrieval. Buckets exist within the Smart Objects and Dumb Archives model for DLs in that we ‘push down’ many of the functionalities and responsibilities traditionally associated with archives (making the archives ‘dumber’) into the buckets (making them ‘smarter’). Some of the responsibilities imbued to buckets are the enforcement of their terms and conditions, and maintenance and display of their contents.” (Michael L. Nelson) – courtesy of usablehelp

Usability and open-source software development

Added on 10 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
“Open-source is becoming an increasingly popular software development method. This paper reports a usability study of the open-source Greenstone Digital Library collection-building software. The problems highlighted by the study are analysed to identify their likely source within the social context of Greenstone’s development environment. We discuss how characteristics of open-source software development influence the usability of resulting software products. ” (David M. Nichols, Kirsten Thomson and Stuart A. Yeates – Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand)

The humanism of media ecology: Keynote address delivered at the inaugural media ecology association convention

Added on 9 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
“As far as I can tell, the new media have made us into a nation of information junkies; that is to say, our 170-year efforts have turned information into a form of garbage. My own answer to the question concerning access to information is that, at least for now, the speed, volume, and variety of available information serve as a distraction and a moral deficit; we are deluded into thinking that the serious social problems of our time would be solved if only we had more information, and still more information.” (Neil Postman – Media Ecology Association) – courtesy of vanderwal

Stuart Weibel interviews Tim Berners-Lee

Added on 9 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
“The benefit of the Web is proportional to the number of connections – links – to related information. Just as the Web evolved rapidly as people recognized this and acted independently to launch Web servers, this same network effect will bring people together around common semantic standards as they come to realize the enhanced value of their data and information in the context of a truly Semantic Web.” (Online Computer Literacy Center) – courtesy of peter van dijck

The intranet gets serious: If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – Part 4/4

Added on 7 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
“Intranets don’t self-organize. Without planned, centralized information architectures and clearly defined published processes, they become unproductive. Intranets often have applications that either don’t work properly, are too difficult to learn, or have no clear business benefit. Applications, like content, must be able to establish a clear return on investment.” (Gerry McGovern)

Humanity will survive information deluge

Added on 7 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
Q&A with Sir Arthur C. Clarke: “The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information ñ in the sense of raw data ñ is not knowledge; that knowledge is not wisdom; and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.” (Nalaka Gunawardene – OneWorld South Asia)

Expert forum for knowledge presentation: Resources for communication & Forum for discussion, planning, and collaboration

Added on 4 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
“Our goal is to provide a structured forum to define common goals, formulate strategies, and develop collaborative action leading to improving the performance of communications and developing an agreed upon knowledge base that serves and defines the field.” (International Institute for Information Design) – courtesy of karel van der waarde

When good design => bad product

Added on 3 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
“When you come up with improved designs, take it upon yourself to test how they work. Formulate your own test plan and try them out under a variety of conditions. If the engineering process is so badly broken that changing the old designs will almost certainly make things worse, back off on how much you want to change in each release and work with your engineers to do more informal QA testing before the release is assembled.” (Bruce Tognazzini – AskTog) – courtesy of vanderwal

Skip this rant and read Shirky

Added on 3 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
“If this all sounds like the Mother of all Migraines, you’re spot on. Probably too challenging for most of us, even if our content management systems suddenly sprouted new code to adequately support metadata management. And even if we could get everyone in our organizations – or, in the case of the Semantic Web, every web publisher on the planet – to share the same ‘world views’ as expressed by metadata.” (Louis Rosenfeld)

News page designer

Added on 3 December 2003 Peter Bogaards
“(…) there aren’t many places to see news design happening throughout the world. Many areas of the country don’t have easy access to newspapers from around the world or even the United States. Consequently many of us are working in somewhat of a vacuum. Your participation helps create a community for all news designers from all geographic areas and from all levels of experience.” (About NPD)