Did Mr Hodges ever say "Welcome to my World?" (i)
The source for the post:
- reminds me that Hodges' model provides a potential 'World Model'. Not just one world, but (seriously and non-trivially) several, in the form of the ...
- Nurse's
- Student's*
- Patient's
- Carer's
- Team Leader's / Managers
- and yes the team's too - the sum total of all that effort. ...
Hodges' model is applicable in assessment, planning, interventions, evaluation and review. The key of course, is as was as computers first arrived on wards and clinics: the human users of Hodges' model.
Of course, each comes with their own, hard won (see what I did there!) model, that needs extending by several intensive years of study.
Situated and person-centred, Hodges' model can assist all its users, to 'incorporate the learned dynamics of the environment', however it presents: medicine anyone? What about surgical, psychiatry, paediatrics, orthopaedics, or gynaecology? You get my drift?
Wenninghoff, N., Schwammberger, M. (2026). Interpretable World Model Imaginations as Deep Reinforcement Learning Explanation. In: Guidotti, R., Schmid, U., Longo, L. (eds) Explainable Artificial Intelligence. xAI 2025. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2578. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08327-2_7
*And not necessarily a student nurse, but possibly medical, social work, psychology, probation, ... ai!
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