About Stuart G. Hall

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GHandI is halfway through

News on the UK’s prinicipal shift handover research on the Centre for HCI Design, City University’s nice (no pun intended) looking blog:

“The GHandI project started in January 2007, so we are now half way through this three year EPSRC-funded project. The project team have recently completed detailed studies of clincial handover in the following settings: a general medical ward, an emergency assessment unit, a paediatric surgical ward and a paediatric acute retrieval service. The collected data is now being analysed to develop a model of handover. We have been exploring possible technologies to support handover and we are also participating in the evaluation of a handover system in a major NHS Trust in London.”

There’s also an interesting chance to put forward your own proposals for evaluating new healthcare technologies in Boston; Potential participants should submit a position paper to the organizers (rebecca.randell.1@city.ac.uk) by October 23, 2008.

“It’s amazing how the little things matter”

13 mins 57 secs into Scoble’s video interview on the new Facebook design with Facebook’s Mark Slee he asks my favourite kinda question; essentially ‘what are the small things that you guys have done, that might be unexpected, that others don’t bother to do?’ Mark looks kinda like he’s not been asked that before (15:05). Hey, ‘it’s clean and easy to use’ is the answer. But problem is that’s a generic answer, Scoble asked for something specific. So he asks again, in a different way, for what the guy is proudest of? Now a better answer. One, a better production interface which brings elements like videos and photos together for the first time in a simpler experience, and which makes it easier to share. On the consumption side the newsfeeds interface now come in different views, so they’ve taken the newsfeed interface which revolutionised the site a couple of years ago, and now allows users to interact with the feed and filter down exactly what they’re interested in. Thanks Mark. And nice to hear you use a PC.