Aslib Proceedings: Volume 52 Issue 9

Digital health information: case study the information kiosk

David Nicholas, Peter Williams, Paul Huntington

The published literature on consumer health kiosks is assessed to determine the impact of this relatively ‘low‐tech’ technology and to provide a context and stepping‐stone for a…

Screen‐based information design: Eforms

Alistair Ross

The study surveys and delineates the processes involved in screen‐based information design. This is specifically in relation to the creation of electronic forms and from this…

A definition of information

A.D. Madden

One difficulty faced by students on many information management courses is the lack of any attempt to teach concepts of information. Therefore, if a core module does not fit in…

What should we understand by information technology (and some hints at other issues)?

Julian Warner

Information science has been convincingly characterised as a response to developments in information and communications technologies and as part of the gestalt of the computer…