Developing a user-centered Audio-CASI authoring tool

描述（由申请人提供）：使用计算机对患者或研究对象进行标准化访谈，在可接受性、可靠性、准确性、数据质量以及最终的成本效益方面，对生物医学研究和临床实践都有许多潜在的好处。计算机辅助音频自我访谈（A-CASI）系统已成为社会调查（特别是药物滥用）研究领域的黄金标准，但在其他环境中尚未获得广泛接受。部分原因是，计算机化仪器的开发（除非结构或内容非常简单）是一个漫长而困难的过程，需要熟练的程序员或掌握昂贵的调查软件中的复杂脚本语言。 这项研究的总体目标是开发一种创新的软件工具（CASIA），使研究人员和临床医生能够快速有效地创建自己的任何标准化测量的自动化版本，而无需程序员或学习编程语言。这项建议的具体目标是： (1)调查CASIA（一种供非程序员使用的编写工具）在将标准访谈和问卷转换为计算机辅助个人访谈（CAPI）和计算机辅助音频自我访谈（A-CASI）系统方面的可用性。 (2)开发一个计算机辅助访谈创作的认知框架，描述与创建自动化版本的问卷、评级量表和结构化访谈有关的认知过程和知识。 (3)利用这个框架，通知以用户为中心的设计方法来修改和扩展的CASIA系统，从而提供了一套资源的创作环境，可以适应用户，任务和上下文的特点。 这种创作工具的增强可用性，认知信息和以用户为中心的设计方法的结果，将使它更有可能，A-CASI系统将被开发，实现广泛的使用，最重要的是，坚持在设置长期。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Standardized interviewing of patients or research subjects using computers has many potential benefits to both biomedical research and clinical practice in terms of acceptability, reliability, accuracy, quality of data and ultimately cost-efficiency. Computer-assisted self-interview with audio (A-CASI) systems have become the gold standard in the social survey (particularly substance abuse) research field but have not gained a widespread acceptance in other settings. This is due in part to the fact that the development of computerized instruments (unless very simple in structure or content) is a lengthy and difficult process that requires skilled programmers or the mastery of complex scripting languages within expensive survey software. The overall goal of this research is to develop an innovative software tool (CASIA) that will enable researchers and clinicians to rapidly and efficiently create their own automated versions of any standardized measure without the need for programmers or the need to learn a programming language. The specific aims of this proposal are to: (1) Investigate the usability of CASIA, an authoring tool for use by non-programmers, in the conversion of standard interviews and questionnaires into computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) and computer- assisted self-interview with audio (A-CASI) systems. (2) Develop a cognitive framework of computer-assisted interview authoring that describes the cognitive processes and knowledge pertaining to the creation of automated versions of questionnaires, rating scales and structured interviews. (3) Utilize this framework to inform a user-centered design approach to revise and extend the CASIA system thereby providing a set of resources in the authoring environment that can adapt to the characteristics of users, tasks and contexts. The enhanced usability of this authoring-tool, the result of a cognitively-informed and user-centered design approach, will make it more likely that A-CASI systems will be developed, achieve a broad usage and, most importantly, persist in settings long-term.