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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Taking the time to care: empowering low health literacy hospital patients with virtual nurse agents
Ninety million Americans have inadequate health literacy, resulting in a reduced ability to read and follow directions in the healthcare environment. We describe an animated, empa...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Laura M. Pfeifer, Brian W. Ja...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
Blowing in the wind: unanchored patient information work during cancer care
Patients do considerable information work. Technologies that help patients manage health information so they can play active roles in their health-care, such as personal health re...
Predrag V. Klasnja, Andrea Civan-Hartzler, Kenton ...
CCIA
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Using Electronic Institutions for Hospitals Chronic Disease Management and Purchasing System
Use of multi-agent systems (MAS) in health-care domains is increasing. MAS is an appropriate technique for many medical domains due to the characteristics of the problems in this a...
Ashkan Musavi, Maite López-Sánchez, ...
DATE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 15 days ago
Health-care electronics The market, the challenges, the progress
— Exploding health care demands and costs of aging and stressed populations necessitate the use of more in-home monitoring and personalized health care. Electronics hold great pr...
Wolfgang Eberle, Ashwin S. Mecheri, Thi Kim Thoa N...
ATAL
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Agent-oriented context-aware platforms supporting communities of practice in health care
This paper presents and discusses the use of an agent-oriented context-aware platform to support communities of practice (CoPs) in the health care domain. Our work is based on a s...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Renata S. S. Gu...