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

项目概要/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， 到目前为止，还没有系统的经验评估不同插图元素的影响， 风格对病人的理解的概念，打算在传达的 插图或由插图引起的患者焦虑。在这项工作中，我们将首先开发一个域 本体，系统地描述了目前使用的医学插图风格的空间。我们 然后，我将使用这个本体来指导创建一个公共领域的病人教育语料库 展示本体中标识的最重要的插图区别的文档，沿着 对每个人进行知识测试。该语料库将用于进行一项涉及8100名 个人评估不同的插图风格对理解和焦虑的影响。 最后，我们将探讨模拟面对面的会话代理的使用 与健康提供者对话，解释患者教育文档，均在2D显示器上显示 沉浸式虚拟现实，在一项涉及300名参与者的随机研究中进行了评估。

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.