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Month: August 2009

systems thinking 

Making the Invisible Visible

August 29, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 368 Views accessibility, chaos theory, design, edge of chaos, eHealth, learning, systems dynamics, systems thinking

Hurting your back really changes how you see the world, including the boundaries and assumptions of the systems we live in and design. This post looks at how a simple problem led to some complex revelations about systems thinking.

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e(un)Health

August 25, 2009August 25, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 400 Views communication, eHealth, health, ICT, information overload, information technology, psychology, systems, time poverty, wellbeing

Is the ‘e’ part of eHealth working at cross purposes with our wellbeing? The speed, volume and complexity of information online and the myriad ways we access such information may be leading to new types of illnesses and problems as it solves others.

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health promotion psychology systems thinking 

Specialized and Generalized Systems Thinking and Action

August 24, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 329 Views health promotion, psychology, social work, systems thinking, treatment

Health promotion is largely focused on large scale social systems, while counseling psychology looks at the individual. Is there a way to bring these two perspectives together and have both specialized and generalized systems thinking and action models?

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complexity emergence social media systems science 

Tr.im and Community Ownership

August 20, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 323 Views community, emergence, open source, self-organization, technology, Twitter

Why the case of a simple URL shortener’s demise and resurrection might have consequences for how we understand self-organization and community development

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behaviour change complexity eHealth emergence 

eHealth Isn’t Rocket Science…But Maybe it Should Be

August 14, 2009August 14, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 422 Views complexity, eHealth, health, innovation, self-organization, space travel, wisdom of crowds

We can learn a lot from the Ansari X-Prize for space that can be applied to the woeful problems of eHealth.

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behaviour change complexity environment food systems systems science 

The limits to individual action

August 11, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 337 Views behaviour change, coffee, complexity, environment, food, Starbucks, systems dynamics, systems thinking

The decision to order a drink is simple — with very complex potential outcomes when you look at the bigger picture

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food systems systems science 

Ideology-Free Food Systems Change

August 8, 2009August 8, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 307 Views

Food is one of my great passions. It’s nice to have one that just happens to overlap with a basic

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complexity emergence social media systems science 

Wikipedia and the Limits of Co-Creation(?)

August 7, 2009August 7, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 593 Views community, complexity, creativity, innovation, self-organization, social media, systems science, Wikipedia

Wikipedia contributions are starting to plateau in part because some of the qualities of a healthy, creative system are being eroded by changes in how posts are being edited and controlled.

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food systems health promotion psychology 

Asking the Right Question / Adding to the Organics Debate

August 3, 2009August 3, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 330 Views food systems, psychology, research, science

Is asking whether organics are healthier than conventional food the wrong question — and why the questions we ask shape the knowledge we have

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food systems health promotion public health systems science Uncategorized 

The Organic – Health debate

August 2, 2009August 2, 2009 Cameron D. Norman 415 Views food systems, health, health promotion, organics, science, social determinants of health

Focusing on nutrients in the organic-health debate is missing the point on the benefits to the environment and social determinants of health of organics.

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