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eCoach: Development and Pilot Testing of a Decision Aid for Prostate Cancer - Final Report
vizHOME-A context-based home assessment: Preliminary implications for informatics.
The Virtual Patient for Improving Quality of Care in Primary Healthcare - Final Report
e3iVR: Conference on Ethics in Investigational and Interventional Uses of Immersive VR
This project supports a 2-day conference called the Ethics in Investigational and Interventional Uses of Immersive VR (e3iVR), hosted by the Living Environments Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Virtualized Homes: Tools for Better Discharge Planning
This project will demonstrate the technical feasibility and clinician and patient acceptability of linking a full-scale 3D model of a private home with an electronic health record.
Treating Comorbid Depression During Care Transitions with Relational Agents
The project will develop an Internet-accessed relational agent system, a human animation program that interacts with patients and integrates best practices from provider-patient communication theory, to deliver depression treatment to patients with congestive heart failure or chronic pulmonary disease and comorbid depression. The care will be delivered immediately following hospital discharge to improve the safety of care transitions.
Relieving Anxiety in Children Undergoing Radiation Therapy through Virtual Preparation
This project will develop RadWorld, a virtual world program to prepare children and their parents for radiation therapy.
vizHOME: A Context-Based Health Information Needs Assessment Strategy
The purpose of this project is to create a systematic way to understand and measure how household context—such as storage adequacy, lighting, and privacy affordance—influences personal health information management.
eCoach: Development and Pilot Testing of a Decision Aid for Prostate Cancer
This project piloted an embodied conversational agent to support shared decisionmaking for prostate cancer treatment and found that the tools was technically feasible however, many men preferred receiving information from their providers.
The Virtual Patient for Improving Quality of Care in Primary Healthcare
This project developed and tested the impact of a virtual patient on the clinical approach of primary care providers at a community health center serving refugee patients.
