* The Markle Foundation, New York, is providing $2 million to the Advertising Council, New York, for a campaign highlighting the benefits of interactive media for children.
Dr. John Halamka, who wrote the anonymous case study (name of hospital, patient and doctors withheld), writes that hospitals have to figure a way to balance the benefits of interactive technology with the risks of distraction.
However, some research studies have reported ambiguous, inconclusive results in terms of learning benefits of interactive visualizations.
We present a framework of criteria with which we structurally analyze the benefits of interactive media communication.
As regards consent, the closely connected yet separate concern lies with the danger of exclusion from societal discourse following social exclusion from (benefits of) interactive policy-making, considering how state democracy rests upon the capacity within society to have all its individual members (able to) participate in public debate.
The role of peer meetings in this reflective process was also shown in student reports about the benefits of interactive discussions and the development of interpersonal skills.
Several studies have shown the benefits of interactive Internet portals for managing chronic conditions (asthma, 12 14 type 2 diabetes, 15 arthritis, 16 hypertension 17 and mental health 18 19), for health behaviour change 20 21 and lifestyle risk factors (physical activity, 22 smoking cessation 23 and weight loss).
Just as passive observers do not receive the full benefit of an interactive, participative world-wide web (web 2.0), individuals must be transformed from ethnocentric worldviews and myopic thinking (Self 1.0) to individuals with pluralistic worldviews and layered, nuance thinking styles (Self 2.0).
Research articles have noted the benefit of structured, interactive dialogue that allows stakeholders to better identify challenges and align priorities and action points to assure accountability for resources [ 3– 5].
55 By contrast with a recently updated Cochrane review, 36 this study found no evidence of benefit for interactive telemonitoring on any outcome examined.
