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Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52842#.VKs2psnQrzE Author(s)     Darryl J. Mayeaux , Maxwell B. Wallace , Anne M. Young Affiliation(s) Department of Psychology, St. Bonaventure University, New York, USA . ABSTRACT For omnivores to determine whether an unfamiliar item is an appropriate food, they could rely on personal information from sampling it themselves or rely on less risky observation of whether other individuals eat the item. Availability of information about food from social companions in group-living species is one of the benefits of group life. Adults of solitary-living species, however, seem typically less likely to rely on social informatio...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=48516#.VDtOm1fHRK0 Author(s) Esther van Loon , Nelly Oudshoorn , Roland Bal Affiliation(s) Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands . University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands . Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands . ABSTRACT Designing technologies is a process that relies on multiple interactions between design and use contexts. These interactions are essential to the development and establishment of technologies. This article seeks to understand the attempts of healthcare organisations to integrate use contexts into the design of healthcare technologies following insights of the theoretical approaches of social learning and user represen...