Dialogue Systems for Health Communication

Schedule Oct 22-24

 

 
Friday
9:00-10:30 Welcome & Introduction (Tim Bickmore) [Charts] 30
  Keynote: Experiences with Telephone-Linked Care (Rob Friedman) [Charts] 60
11:00-12:30 Session Chair: Toni Giorgino
 

Paper: A Pedagogical Agent for Psychosocial Intervention on a Handheld Computer (Lewis Johnson)

30
  Paper: Retrofitting Synthetic Dialog Agents to Game Characters for Lifestyle Risk Training (Susann Luperfoy) 30
  Paper: The Transonics Spoken Dialogue Translator: An aid for English-Persian Doctor-Patient Interviews (David Traum) 30
2:00-3:30 Demos (David Traum, Susann Luperfoy, Kevin Ludena, Tim Bickmore) 60
  Paper: Using a Domain-Independent Reactive Planner to Implement a Medical Dialogue System (Reva Freedman) 30
4:00-5:30

Session Chair: Stacy Marsella

 
 

Paper: A Triage Information Agent (TIA) based on the IDA Technology (Stan Franklin) [Charts]

30
  Paper: A Synthetic Character Application for Informed Consent (Rob Hubal) 30
  Keynote: Experiences with a Wearable Health Agent (Rosalind Picard) 30
6:00-7:00 Reception
 
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Saturday
9:00-10:30 Keynote: Experiences with HealthBuddy (Geoffrey Clapp) 60
  Paper: The Role of “Etiquette” in an Automated Medication Reminder (Peggy Wu) 30
11:00-12:30
Session Chair: Lewis Johnson
 

Paper: Communication of Uncertainty in Clinical Genetics Patient Health Communication Systems (Nancy Green) [Charts]

30
  Paper: Voice Pathology Assessment based on a Dialogue System and Speech Analysis (Rosalyn Moran) [Charts] 30
  Paper: Detection of Neuropsychiatric States of Interest in Text (Robert Bechtel) [Charts] 30
2:00-3:30 Challenge problem: Life-long engagement for chronic disease management (Bickmore) [Charts] 60
  Paper: Integrating Public Health and Computer Science Theoretical Perspectives for Developing Tailored Health Messages (Rita Kukafka) [Charts] 30
4:00-5:30

Paper: E-Health as Dialogue: Communication and Quality of Cancer Care (Linda Harris, Gary Kreps) [Charts]

30
 

Panel: What's Unique About Health Dialogue? (Moderator: Susann Luperfoy) [Charts]

60
6:00-7:30 Plenary Session (Candy Sidner presenter)
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Sunday
9:00-10:30

Session Chair: Stacy Marsella

 
 

Paper: Talking Telemedicine: Is the Interactive Voice-Logbook Evolving into the Cornerstone of Diabetes Healthcare? (Leslie-Ann Black) [Charts]

30
 

Paper: An Assistive Conversation Skills Training System for Caregivers of Persons with Alzheimer's Disease (Nancy Green) [Charts]

30
  Paper: Evaluation and Usage Patterns in the Homey Hypertension Management Dialog System (Toni Giorgino) 30
11:00-12:30 Panel: Towards a Community - Shared Tools, Corpora and Dialogue Scripts (Moderator: Neal Lesh) 60
  Wrapup (Tim Bickmore) [Charts] 30