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Abstract | ||
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When deployed on mobile devices, virtual agents have the potential to deliver advice regarding medical conditions, as well as provide a ubiquitous channel for health education and behavior change for a variety of chronic health conditions. We describe design guidelines for mobile agent dialogues to support chronic disease management, a general-purpose smartphone-based architecture for a conversational virtual agent that simulates face-to-face health counseling conversations with patients, and an initial agent implementation that provides counseling to patients with the chronic heart condition atrial fibrillation in conjunction with a mobile heart rhythm monitor that is attached to the back of the phone. Preliminary results from a randomized trial with 120 patients with atrial fibrillation indicate that the agent results in significant improvements in self-reported quality of life relative to a standard of care control group. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.1145/3267851.3267908 | 18TH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS (IVA'18) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Health, Human-centered computing, Mobile Applications, Natural language interfaces | Quality of life,Computer science,Health education,Mobile agent,Randomized controlled trial,Phone,Mobile device,Human-centered computing,Medical emergency,Multimedia,Behavior change | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 8 |
Authors | ||
6 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Timothy Bickmore | 1 | 2581 | 318.35 |
| Everlyne Kimani | 2 | 3 | 4.46 |
| Ha Trinh | 3 | 42 | 9.11 |
| Alexandra Pusateri | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Michael K. Paasche-Orlow | 5 | 45 | 6.84 |
| Jared W. Magnani | 6 | 1 | 0.71 |