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Methods, tools and technologies |
 Homey |
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Home monitoring through an intelligent dialogue system |
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Main objective |
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Tele-medicine,
Patient home monitoring,
Chronic disease,
Breast Cancer,
Hypertension,
Diabetes,
Medical guideline,
Process modelling,
Abstract task specification,
Ontology,
Semantic dictionary,
Semantic network,
User model,
Voice,
VoiceXML,
Speech,
Automatic speech recognition (ASR),
Text-to-Speech (TTS),
Spoken dialogue,
Adaptive dialogue,
Dialogue manager,
Intelligent dialogue system (IDS),
High-level dialogue specification
Web call centre,
Interactive Voice Response (IVR),
Telephone,
Multimodal,
Multimodal browser, multilingual.
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Development of speech and natural language user interfaces for clinical decision support systems.
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| summary |
The purpose of the HOMEY project is to carry out research and develop technology to be
used for deploying innovative tele-medicine services. These new services will be based on an
Intelligent Dialogue System (IDS), designed and developed to manage an
incremental dialogue between a tele-medicine system and a patient, taking into account user
needs, preferences and the time course of her/his disease. Intelligent dialogue requires the
representation of goals, intentions, and beliefs about the effectiveness of the interaction in
terms of quality of health care management. The dialogue system will require dynamic
adaptation in order to understand the patient’s medical problems and the physician’s goals,
handle misunderstandings, and carry-out argumentation regarding therapy options. In order to
support such adaptation, a representation of the medical domain knowledge, the evolution of
the disease of a specific patient, and the history of user-system interactions need to be
represented.
Multilingual demonstrators
Homey is developing dialogue demonstrators for Hypertension, Diabetes and Breast Cancer care in English
 and Italian  using the current voice-based standard, VoiceXML, for
spoken interaction.
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end date
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location |
support |
2001
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2004 |
EU |
EU Fifth Framework IST programme. |
| contact |
Website |
Massimo Bertoncini
bertonci@mail.eng.it
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http://turing.eng.it/pls/homey/homey.home
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Entry in directory: June 25 2003
Last main update: June 25 2003 |
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