Personal Health Management Assistant
University of Rochester
George Ferguson, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Team Biographies
What Was Accomplished
The University of Rochester team has designed a computerized “conversational assistant” to provide patients with heart disease with a “daily check-up.” Through a collaborative conversation, using speech and/or text chat, the system will help the patient share information relevant to their condition. The computer will then interpret how they are doing each day, personalize treatment recommendations based on established guidelines for heart failure patients, and collect longitudinal data to share with patients and their doctors. In building their prototype the team was able to evaluate their vision of a personal assistant that utilizes speech recognition, natural language understanding, conversational interaction, and knowledge-based task management. The team also tested the ability to upload and download interview data through the web services interface to/from the Project HealthDesign repository to document interview data and to inform subsequent interviews. The Rochester team also contributed to an initial evaluation of the adequacy of data structure for capturing observations of daily living.
Artifacts
To download any of these documents, view the 2006-08 Teams' Artifacts page.
- Source Code - Intended to be illustrative of the design and implementation of an intelligent agent like the Personal Health Management Assistant
- Project Summary - Includes Design Outline and Prototype Architecture
