Dialogue Systems for Health Communication
Papers from the 2004 AAAI Fall Symposium
Timothy Bickmore, Program Chair
Technical Report FS-04-04. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Schedule / 97
Timothy Bickmore
Detection of Neuropsychiatric States of Interest in Text / 1
Robert J. Bechtel and Louis A. Gottschalk
Some Novel Aspects of Health Communication from a Dialogue Systems Perspective / 5
Timothy Bickmore and Toni Giorgino
Talking Telemedicine: Is the Interactive Voice-Logbook Evolving into the Cornerstone of Diabetes Healthcare? / 13
L-A. Black, M. McTear, N. Black, C. McMeel, R. Harper, and M. Lemon
A Triage Information Agent (TIA) based on the IDA Technology / 18
Stan Franklin and Dan Jones
Using a Domain-Independent Reactive Planner to Implement a Medical Dialogue System / 24
Reva Freedman, Nicholas Haggin, Dessislava Nacheva, Tom Leahy, and Richard Stilson
Evaluation and Usage Patterns in the Homey Hypertension Management Dialog System / 32
Toni Giorgino, Silvana Quaglini, and Mario Stefanelli
Communication of Uncertainty in Clinical Genetics Patient Health Communication Systems / 36
Nancy Green, Tami Britt, and Karen Jirak
An Assistive Conversation Skills Training System for Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease / 44
Nancy Green, William Lawton, and Boyd Davis
E-Health as Dialogue: Communication and Quality of Cancer Care / 50
Linda Harris, Connie Dresser, and Gary L. Kreps
A Synthetic Character Application for Informed Consent / 58
Robert C. Hubal, Curry I. Guinn, Diana C. Sparrow, Evelyn J. Studer, Ruth S. Day, and Wendy A. Visscher
A Pedagogical Agent for Psychosocial Intervention on a Handheld Computer / 64
W. Lewis Johnson, Catherine LaBore, and Yuan-Chun Chiu
Integrating Public Health and Computer Science Theoretical Perspectives for Developing Tailored Health Messages / 71
Rita Kukafka, Frances Morrison, and Stephen B. Johnson
Retrofitting Synthetic Dialog Agents to Game Characters for Lifestyle Risk Training / 78
Susann Luperfoy
The Role of "Etiquette" in an Automated Medication Reminder / 88
Christopher A. Miller, Peggy Wu, and Marc Chapman
The Transonics Spoken Dialogue Translator: An Aid for English-Persian Doctor-Patient Interviews / 97
S. Narayanan, S. Ananthakrishnan, R. Belvin, E. Ettelaie, S. Gandhe, S. Ganjavi, P. G. Georgiou, C. M. Hein, S. Kadambe, K. Knight, D. Marcu, H. E. Neely, N. Srinivasamurthy, D. Traum, and D. Wang
Voice Pathology Assessment Based on a Dialogue System and Speech Analysis / 104
Richard Reilly, Rosalyn Moran, and Peter Lacy