SBIR Phase I: Serious Gaming Platform for Mastering the Physician-Patient Diagnostic Interview

SBIR 第一阶段：掌握医患诊断访谈的严肃游戏平台

• 批准号: 1046589
• 负责人: David Baker
• 金额: $ 14.93万
• 依托单位: IntelligentSimulations LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1046589&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Serious; Gaming; Platform

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to implement a new strategy for teaching medical students to interact with and relate to patients. Present teaching methods are labor intensive for instructors and students and limited to fixed settings. The project team will develop a serious gaming software platform that captures the human element by simulating patient responses (level of trust, topic comfort, and sense of urgency) through the use of ?intelligent, emoting avatars? (virtual patients) represented through artificial intelligence (AI) and dynamic video. The software platform replaces the passive experience of dialog tree based character interaction with the active experience of dynamic conversation. The training platform will have elements of virtual reality (interactive, immersive, and experiential) and be capable of supporting libraries of virtual patients. The innovation will enable applications to provide a new level of emotional experience for the users by achieving an emotional attachment and sense of bonding with intelligent virtual characters, capable of dynamic conversation and emotional responses based on concepts involving level of trust, topic comfort, and sense of urgency. The product will enable the student to practice and learn at their own computer on their own schedule within a ?learning environment? that is extraordinarily rich and realistic.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project will change the way medical students learn in the medical school environment. Medical school teaching methods are costly, labor intensive for instructors and students and limited to fixed settings. The project team will develop a serious gaming software platform that relies on artificial intelligence and makes use of the interactive, immersive, and experiential elements of virtual reality that have made video games so successful. They will adapt these elements to serious gaming to create an instructional technology to teach medical students to interact with and relate to patients. The student will interact with a virtual patient by entering keyboard based dialog or by using speech recognition technology. The product will enable the student to practice and learn at their own computer on their own schedule. The essentially passive experience of dialog tree based character interaction is replaced with the active experience of dynamic conversation. This technology is intended to address the problems posed by present expensive medical school teaching methods which are labor intensive for instructors and students. The technology will offer advances over traditional on-line and class-room instruction materials such as video presentations, PowerPoint and flat written formats. Over the long term, this entirely scalable technology has the potential to fundamentally enrich the educational environment for medical school teaching with a correspondingly enormous commercial profitability and societal impact.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目旨在实施一项新的策略，以教授医学生与患者互动和相关的策略。目前的教学方法对讲师和学生来说是劳动密集型的，并且仅限于固定设置。项目团队将开发一个严肃的游戏软件平台，该平台通过使用“智能，情感的化身”来模拟患者反应（信任，主题舒适和紧迫感）来捕获人类因素？ （虚拟患者）通过人工智能（AI）和动态视频代表。软件平台用动态对话的主动体验取代了基于对话树的角色互动的被动体验。培训平台将具有虚拟现实的要素（交互式，身临其境和体验式），并能够支持虚拟患者的图书馆。这项创新将使应用程序通过实现情感依恋和与智能虚拟角色结合的感觉，为用户提供新的情感体验，能够基于涉及信任水平，主题舒适和紧迫感的概念的动态对话和情感反应。该产品将使学生能够在“学习环境”中按照自己的时间表在自己的计算机上进行练习和学习？这是非常富裕和现实的。该项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将改变医学生在医学院环境中学习的方式。 医学院的教学方法是昂贵的，对于讲师和学生来说，劳动密集型，并且仅限于固定设置。项目团队将开发一个依赖人工智能的严肃游戏软件平台，并利用虚拟现实的互动，沉浸式和体验元素，这些元素使视频游戏如此成功。他们将把这些元素调整为认真的游戏，以创建一种教学技术，以教授医学生与患者互动并与之相关。学生将通过输入基于键盘的对话框或使用语音识别技术来与虚拟患者进行互动。该产品将使学生能够按照自己的时间表在自己的计算机上进行练习和学习。基于对话树的角色互动的本质被动体验被动态对话的积极体验所取代。该技术旨在解决目前昂贵的医学院教学方法所带来的问题，这些方法对讲师和学生来说是劳动密集型的问题。该技术将提供比传统的在线和课堂教学材料（例如视频演示，PowerPoint和扁平书面格式）的进步。从长远来看，这项完全可扩展的技术具有从根本上丰富医学院教学的教育环境，并具有相应的商业盈利能力和社会影响。