How do people REALLY make healthcare decisions?

Thomas Goetz in Wired Magazine highlights Alexandra Carmichael and her decision tree for health decisions, along with 2 other scenarios. Alexandra is the founder of the CureTogether open source health research community. CureTogether is an innovative service that facilitates finding effective ways to address health concerns by active participation by people living with certain conditions, . . . → Read More: How do people REALLY make healthcare decisions?

Why Future Thinking needs Sensemaking

An OCAD  graduate student in the Strategic Foresight and Innovation program posted a compelling issue with innovation and design thinking in one of our online forums. The core of it read:

“I find many of us get so caught up in “future thinking” and attempts to be disruptively innovative that we forget the success of . . . → Read More: Why Future Thinking needs Sensemaking

Turning the Page: The Toronto eBooks Study

Student Experience of eBooks: How they are found, used, and (not) read

Presented at the 2009 OLA Superconference, Thursday Jan 29  10:40 a.m.

We present findings of interest to librarians from the UTL eBooks user experience study conducted in 2008 at University of Toronto Libraries. Combining research from surveys, user interaction and observation, and . . . → Read More: Turning the Page: The Toronto eBooks Study