Description
There is a large and growing interest in the development of automated
systems to provide health services to patients and consumers. In the last
two decades, applications informed by research in health communication
have been developed, e.g., for promoting healthy behavior and for managing
chronic diseases. While the value that these types of applications can
offer to the community in terms of cost, access, and convenience is clear,
there are still major challenges facing design of effective health communication
systems in terms of accessibility, trust, expert-to-lay knowledge translation,
and persuasiveness. It is proposed that some of these challenges can be
addressed by use of AI techniques in combination with empirically-based
theoretical frameworks from the field of health communication and related
areas. This symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of
scholars to identify possible solutions.
AI researchers are invited to submit papers on their work related to
health communication. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
• Communication interventions
• Games, conversational agents, or dialogue systems
for healthy behavior promotion
• Intelligent interactive monitoring of patient’s
environment and needs
• Intelligent interfaces supporting access to healthcare
• Patient-tailored decision support, explanation for
informed consent, and retrieval and summarization of on-line healthcare
information
• Risk communication and visualization
• Tailored access to electronic medical records
• Tailoring health information for low-literacy, low-numeracy,
or under-served audiences
• Virtual healthcare counselors
• Virtual patients for training healthcare professionals
Scholars from health communication disciplines are invited to submit
papers on the following issues as they pertain to the symposium goals:
• Health literacy
• Healthcare provider-consumer communication
• Risk communication, including written and visual
formats
• Use of behavioral, persuasion, and argumentation
theories for healthy behavior promotion.
Papers will be published through the
AAAI
Spring Symposium Report Series. Participants presenting papers will
be invited to submit expanded versions to a journal special issue on this
topic.