Interaction between healthcare providers and consumers has a central
role in consumer satisfaction and successful health outcomes. The healthcare
consumer, facing increasing responsibility for healthcare decisions, may
turn to electronic resources to supplement the information given by his
healthcare provider. Here intelligent systems can assist in retrieval and
summarization of relevant and trustworthy information, in tailoring the
information so that it is comprehensible, and in making it accessible to
computer users with disabilities. Furthermore, intelligent systems are beginning
to appear that provide virtual healthcare services to the patient: e.g.,
monitoring the patient’s health, reminding him to take his medicine, and
encouraging him to exercise or eat a healthy diet. On the health care provider’s
side, artificial intelligence can provide virtual patients for training
providers to diagnose, care for, or communicate with clients.
This symposium will focus on Virtual Healthcare Interaction (VHI): use
of Artificial Intelligence in interaction traditionally occurring between
healthcare providers and consumers. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:
• Virtual healthcare providers (e.g. medication advising,
counseling)
• Games, conversational agents, and dialogue systems
for healthy behavior promotion (e.g. STD prevention, personal exercise
trainer)
• Virtual patients for training providers to diagnose,
care for, or communicate with clients (e.g. virtual psychiatric patient)
• Decision support for healthcare clients (e.g. for
cancer treatment)
• Explanation for informed consent
• Healthcare interventions (e.g. cognitive prostheses,
speech therapy, virtual or robotic companions)
• Tailoring health information or risk communication
to patients, including low-literacy, low-numeracy, or under-served audiences
• Intelligent retrieval and summarization of healthcare
information tailored for patients
• Tailored access to medical record supporting both
providers and consumers
• Intelligent interfaces supporting access to healthcare
services for people with HCI limitations (e.g. motor, vision, hearing,
cognitive).
In addition to AI researchers, the symposium invites participants from
healthcare-related fields with an interest in these issues. The symposium
format will consist of presentations on work in-progress and mature work,
demonstrations of implemented systems, invited expert presentations, and
small group discussions.
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