1.
Daher, Salam; Gonzalez, Laura; Hochreiter, Jason; Norouzi, Nahal; Bruder, Gerd; Welch, Gregory
Touch-Aware Intelligent Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation Conference
ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents, Sydney, Australia, 2018.
@conference{daher2018physical,
title = {Touch-Aware Intelligent Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation},
author = {Salam Daher and Laura Gonzalez and Jason Hochreiter and Nahal Norouzi and Gerd Bruder and Gregory Welch},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3267851.3267876},
doi = {10.1145/3267851.3267876},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-11-05},
urldate = {2018-11-05},
booktitle = {ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents},
pages = {99-106},
address = {Sydney, Australia},
abstract = {Conventional Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) focus primarily on the visual and auditory channels for both the agent and the interacting human: the agent displays a visual appearance and speech as output, while processing the human's verbal and non-verbal behavior as input. However, some interactions, particularly those between a patient and healthcare provider, inherently include tactile components. We introduce an Intelligent Physical-Virtual Agent (IPVA) head that occupies an appropriate physical volume; can be touched; and via human-in-the-loop control can change appearance, listen, speak, and react physiologically in response to human behavior. Compared to a traditional IVA, it provides a physical affordance, allowing for more realistic and compelling human-agent interactions. In a user study focusing on the neurological assessment of a simulated patient showing stroke symptoms, we compared the IPVA head with a high-fidelity touch-aware mannequin that has a static appearance. Various measures of the human subjects indicated greater attention, affinity for, and presence with the IPVA patient, all factors that can improve healthcare training.},
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Conventional Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) focus primarily on the visual and auditory channels for both the agent and the interacting human: the agent displays a visual appearance and speech as output, while processing the human's verbal and non-verbal behavior as input. However, some interactions, particularly those between a patient and healthcare provider, inherently include tactile components. We introduce an Intelligent Physical-Virtual Agent (IPVA) head that occupies an appropriate physical volume; can be touched; and via human-in-the-loop control can change appearance, listen, speak, and react physiologically in response to human behavior. Compared to a traditional IVA, it provides a physical affordance, allowing for more realistic and compelling human-agent interactions. In a user study focusing on the neurological assessment of a simulated patient showing stroke symptoms, we compared the IPVA head with a high-fidelity touch-aware mannequin that has a static appearance. Various measures of the human subjects indicated greater attention, affinity for, and presence with the IPVA patient, all factors that can improve healthcare training.
2.
Daher, Salam
Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation Conference
ACM Intelligent Virtual Agent, Sydney, Australia, 2018.
@conference{daher2018physical2,
title = {Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation},
author = {Salam Daher},
url = {PDF available upon request.},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-11-01},
booktitle = {ACM Intelligent Virtual Agent},
address = {Sydney, Australia},
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2018
Salam Daher, Laura Gonzalez, Jason Hochreiter, Nahal Norouzi, Gerd Bruder, Gregory Welch
Touch-Aware Intelligent Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation Conference
ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents, Sydney, Australia, 2018.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: 2018, Gerd Bruder, Gregory F Welch, Jason Hochreiter, Laura Gonzalez, Nahal Norouzi, neurological assessment, patient simulator, physical-virtual agents, pvp, Salam Daher
@conference{daher2018physical,
title = {Touch-Aware Intelligent Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation},
author = {Salam Daher and Laura Gonzalez and Jason Hochreiter and Nahal Norouzi and Gerd Bruder and Gregory Welch},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3267851.3267876},
doi = {10.1145/3267851.3267876},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-11-05},
urldate = {2018-11-05},
booktitle = {ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents},
pages = {99-106},
address = {Sydney, Australia},
abstract = {Conventional Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) focus primarily on the visual and auditory channels for both the agent and the interacting human: the agent displays a visual appearance and speech as output, while processing the human's verbal and non-verbal behavior as input. However, some interactions, particularly those between a patient and healthcare provider, inherently include tactile components. We introduce an Intelligent Physical-Virtual Agent (IPVA) head that occupies an appropriate physical volume; can be touched; and via human-in-the-loop control can change appearance, listen, speak, and react physiologically in response to human behavior. Compared to a traditional IVA, it provides a physical affordance, allowing for more realistic and compelling human-agent interactions. In a user study focusing on the neurological assessment of a simulated patient showing stroke symptoms, we compared the IPVA head with a high-fidelity touch-aware mannequin that has a static appearance. Various measures of the human subjects indicated greater attention, affinity for, and presence with the IPVA patient, all factors that can improve healthcare training.},
keywords = {2018, Gerd Bruder, Gregory F Welch, Jason Hochreiter, Laura Gonzalez, Nahal Norouzi, neurological assessment, patient simulator, physical-virtual agents, pvp, Salam Daher},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {conference}
}
Conventional Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) focus primarily on the visual and auditory channels for both the agent and the interacting human: the agent displays a visual appearance and speech as output, while processing the human's verbal and non-verbal behavior as input. However, some interactions, particularly those between a patient and healthcare provider, inherently include tactile components. We introduce an Intelligent Physical-Virtual Agent (IPVA) head that occupies an appropriate physical volume; can be touched; and via human-in-the-loop control can change appearance, listen, speak, and react physiologically in response to human behavior. Compared to a traditional IVA, it provides a physical affordance, allowing for more realistic and compelling human-agent interactions. In a user study focusing on the neurological assessment of a simulated patient showing stroke symptoms, we compared the IPVA head with a high-fidelity touch-aware mannequin that has a static appearance. Various measures of the human subjects indicated greater attention, affinity for, and presence with the IPVA patient, all factors that can improve healthcare training.
Salam Daher
Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation Conference
ACM Intelligent Virtual Agent, Sydney, Australia, 2018.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: 2018, physical-virtual agents, Salam Daher
@conference{daher2018physical2,
title = {Physical-Virtual Agents for Healthcare Simulation},
author = {Salam Daher},
url = {PDF available upon request.},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-11-01},
booktitle = {ACM Intelligent Virtual Agent},
address = {Sydney, Australia},
keywords = {2018, physical-virtual agents, Salam Daher},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {conference}
}