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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...
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months 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 9 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 2 months 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
14 years 29 days 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...