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The new digital tools for scientific research
Whether you’re a student, researcher or engineer, you’ve probably mastered to perfection certain IT tools: PowerPoint, word processing software, electronic messaging. Other, less well known tools exist, each with a specific use. In research, as in many fields, it is important to organize one’s time and to use relevant, well-adapted tools. Do you need to organize your bibliographic search, exchange large files, or optimize your work as a team? The newcomers to help you with this are called ResearcherID, Figshare, Prezi and Sozi… Do you know them? Read on for a look at the digital tools to use for your scientific research.
The Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad
Over the past week, virtually every media outlet has offered this list of revolutionary products, in solemn celebration of the achievements of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and the legacy he has left behind. The name of any one of those devices brings to mind the image of a sleek, modern machine, just begging you to run your hands over it, and a pristine interface to match. That is exactly what Apple represents to many of us: clean lines, both physically and digitally. This celebration of simplicity, which finds support in the field of Human-computer interaction (HCI), is no accident: It has always been at the heart of Apple design, thanks to the inspired vision of Steve Jobs.
Pervasive Mobile Healthcare System Based on Cloud Computing
Before the 20th century, medical care was delivered at home, through visits from mobile family physicians who packed the necessary medical technology into a doctor’s bag. Nowadays, the lack of hospitals in rural and underserved areas, the exponential complexity of lifestyle and the increasing of chronic diseases make healthcare a serious issue. Driven by quality and cost metrics, the healthcare systems have to change radically in the near future from current healthcare professional-centric systems to distributed networked and mobile healthcare systems. In this movement, the leading part is attributed to the pervasive technologies defined in this context as « healthcare to anyone, anytime, and anywhere ». Pervasive healthcare in contrast tries to change the healthcare delivery model: from doctor-centric to patient-centric, from acute reactive to continuous preventive, from sampling to monitoring. One central challenge of a pervasive healthcare system is how to provide better healthcare services to people using limited financial and human resources
Artificial Intelligence and home automation: Putting the human (back) at the centre of technological development
How do you make a group of intelligent agents communicate in a way that artificially copies human reasoning? How do you create artificial intelligence (AI) to substitute a virtual entity for a real entity? Informatics is a universe in perpetual evolution on a number of levels, including aspects such as material, software and design. Today, informatics is opening up to a new era: an era of ambient intelligence – the human assistance – that, through home automation is slowly changing our habits and improving our daily lives, but also disrupting our societies. This certainly is a progress, but behind this lie questions on the relationship between humans and machines.
The evolution of social network practices in science
Paris metro on a weeknight and numerous heads are tilted towards a book or a Smartphone that holds their attention. Of those engaged with the latter, many are using a social network, or are busy tweeting. The emergence of social networks dates back to approximately 2004, but only since 2008 has their rapid growth reached the general public. Professional social networks have also developed in parallel, but their use remains marginal. The fairly conservative nature of the professional milieu should be kept in mind when considering this, particularly concerning the field of research, where the coffee machine remains the place of social exchange par excellence.
Working for a national Health Patient Record
France went online with the long-awaited Dossier Medical Personnel (DMP) program by opening a portal to enable physicians in five pilot regions to create Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for patients.
