Developing an intelligent virtual agent to stratify people with cognitive complaints: A comparison of human-patient and intelligent virtual agent-patient interaction

Dementia (London). 2020 May;19(4):1173-1188. doi: 10.1177/1471301218795238. Epub 2018 Sep 14.

Authors

Traci Walker¹, Heidi Christensen², Bahman Mirheidari², Thomas Swainston³, Casey Rutten³, Imke Mayer³, Daniel Blackburn³, Markus Reuber⁴

Affiliations

¹ Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
² Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
³ Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
⁴ Academic Neurology Unit, University of Sheffield, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK.

PMID: 30217116
DOI: 10.1177/1471301218795238

No abstract available

Keywords: automated diagnosis; communication; conversation analysis; human–computer interaction; linguistics.

MeSH terms

Aged
Decision Support Systems, Clinical*
Dementia / diagnosis*
Female
Humans
Linguistics
Male
Man-Machine Systems
Memory Disorders / diagnosis*
Middle Aged
User-Computer Interface*