Say hello to molly, Florence, and Ada-they're just a few of the helpful, smart algorithm powered chatbots taking their place in health care. Chatbots are computer programs designed to carry on a dialogue with people, assisting them via text messages,...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2019
In medical education Virtual Patients (VP) are often applied to train students in different scenarios such as recording the patient's medical history or deciding a treatment option. Usually, such interactions are predefined by software logic and data...
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Over the past 10 years, the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has increased in regard to the treatment of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). ICT support mechanisms (e.g. computers, laptops, ro...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Sep 1, 2018
OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to review the characteristics, current applications, and evaluation measures of conversational agents with unconstrained natural language input capabilities used for health-related purposes.
Journal of Nippon Medical School = Nippon Ika Daigaku zasshi
Jan 1, 2018
It is predicted that in the near future robot simulated patients (SPs) will come into use. Through the impressions of five SPs about robot SPs, we explored their vision of the future of medical education as an indicator of what ordinary citizens thin...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
Automated conversational agents built with medical applications in mind, have the potential to reduce healthcare readmissions and improve accessibility to medical knowledge. In this work, we demonstrate the development and evaluation of an automated ...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
In this study, we aimed to teach elementary school students how to practically deal with elderly people with dementia and developed and evaluated teaching materials using a communication robot called Pepper. The teaching material used the robot to mo...
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