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CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 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...
KES
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
OVACARE: A Multi-Agent System for Assistance and Health Care
This paper presents a case study in which the OVAMAH architecture is applied in order to obtain a multi-agent system (MAS) that can provide assistance and health care for Alzheimer...
Juan Francisco de Paz, Sara Rodríguez, Javi...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Towards caring machines
The perception of feeling cared for has beneficial consequences in education, psychotherapy, and medicine. Results from a longitudinal study of simulated caring by a computer are ...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Rosalind W. Picard
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The comforting presence of relational agents
In this paper we describe an on-going experiment on the calming effects of a relational agent on users following a social bonding interaction. Applications to a range of health ca...
Timothy W. Bickmore, Daniel Schulman