Virtual Coach for Atrial Fibrillation Support
Lead PI
Abstract
When deployed on smartphones, virtual agents have the potential to deliver life-saving advice regarding emergency medical conditions, as well as provide a convenient channel for health education to improve the safety and efficacy of pharmacotherapy.
We are developing a smartphone-based virtual agent that provides counseling to patients with Atrial Fibrillation. Atrial Fibrillation is a highly prevalent heart rhythm disorder and is known to significantly increase the risk of stroke, heart failure and death. In this project, a virtual agent is deployed in conjunction with a smartphone-based heart rhythm monitor that lets patients obtain real-time diagnostic information on the status of their atrial fibrillation and determine whether immediate action may be needed.
This project is a collaboration with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Funding
NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Related Publications
- Guhl E, Althouse A, Pusateri A, Kimani E, Paasche-Orlow M, Bickmore T, Magnani J. “The Atrial Fibrillation Health Literacy Information Technology Trial: Pilot Trial of a Mobile Health App for Atrial Fibrillation”, JMIR Cardio 2020;4(1):e17162. DOI: 10.2196/17162
- Timothy W. Bickmore, Everlyne Kimani, Ha Trinh, Alexandra Pusateri, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, and Jared W. Magnani. 2018. “Managing Chronic Conditions with a Smartphone-based Conversational Virtual Agent”. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’18)”. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 119–124. DOI: 10.1145/3267851.3267908
- Guhl EN, Schlusser CL, Henault LE, Bickmore TW, Kimani E, Paasche-Orlow MK, Magnani JW. “Rationale and design of the Atrial Fibrillation health Literacy Information Technology Trial: (AF-LITT)”. Contemp Clin Trials. 2017 Nov;62:153-158. DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2017.09.005
- Magnani JW, Schlusser CL, Kimani E, Rollman BL, Paasche-Orlow MK, Bickmore TW. “The Atrial Fibrillation Health Literacy Information Technology System: Pilot Assessment”. JMIR Cardio. 2017 Jul-Dec;1(2):e7. DOI: 10.2196/cardio.8543
- Kimani, E., Bickmore, T., Trinh, H., Ring, L., Paasche-Orlow, M.K., Magnani, J.W. (2016). “A Smartphone-Based Virtual Agent for Atrial Fibrillation Education and Counseling”. In: Traum, D., Swartout, W., Khooshabeh, P., Kopp, S., Scherer, S., Leuski, A. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10011. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_11