Advancing Medical Illustration in Patient Education Materials: from Art to Science

项目摘要/摘要 推进患者教育材料中的医学插图：从艺术到科学 尽管在医学插图的创作上花费了巨大的努力和费用，但 到目前为止，还没有对不同的插图元素和 关于患者对本应在 插图或由插图引起的病人焦虑。在这项工作中，我们将首先开发一个域 本体论系统地描述了当前使用的医学插图风格的空间。我们 然后，我将使用该本体来指导创建患者教育的公共领域语料库 展示了本体论中确定的最重要的插图区别的文档，以及 每个人都有知识测试。这个语料库将被用来进行一项涉及8100人的评估 评估不同插图风格对理解和焦虑的影响。 最后，我们将探索模拟面对面的具体化对话代理的使用 与健康提供者对话，在2D显示屏上解释患者教育文档 在沉浸式虚拟现实中，300名参与者参与了一项随机研究。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Advancing Medical Illustration in Patient Education Materials: from Art to Science Despite the enormous effort and expense spent in the creation of medical illustrations, there has been no systematic empirical evaluation to date of the impact of varying illustration elements and styles on patient comprehension of the concepts that were intended to be conveyed in the illustration or patient anxiety induced by the illustration. In this effort we will first develop a domain ontology that systematically describes the space of medical illustration styles in current use. We will then use this ontology to guide the creation of a public domain corpus of patient education documents that exhibit the most important illustration distinctions identified in the ontology, along with knowledge tests for each. This corpus will be used to conduct an evaluation involving 8,100 individuals to assess the impact of different illustration styles on comprehension and anxiety. Finally, we will explore the use of Embodied Conversational Agents that simulate face-to-face conversation with a health provider, to explain patient education documents, both on 2D displays and in immersive Virtual Reality, evaluated in a randomized study involving 300 participants.