Activating the Everyday

MAKING EVERYDAY THINGS TALK

 What if things had a voice? What if we could talk directly to things instead of using a mediating voice interface such as an Alexa or a Google Assistant? 

The project aims to explore the role of voice in human-thing interactions by allowing users to talk directly to things instead of using a mediating voice interface such as an Alexa or a Google Assistant.

Publications:

Reddy, A., Kocaballi, A. B., Nicenboim, I., Søndergaard, M. L. J., Lupetti, M. L., Key, C., . . . Strengers, Y. (2021). Making Everyday Things Talk: Speculative Conversations into The Future of Voice Interfaces at Home. In Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’21). Doi:10.1145/3411763.3450390

DIGITAL SCRIBE

Current generation electronic health records suffer a number of problems that make them inefficient and associated with poor clinical satisfaction. Digital scribes or intelligent documentation support systems, take advantage of advances in speech recognition, natural language processing and artificial intelligence, to automate the clinical documentation task currently conducted by humans. 

The project aims to develop a conversational system that listens to doctor-patient conversations during a consultation and automatically generates clinical note summaries.

Publications:

Rezazadegan, D., Berkovsky, S., Quiroz, J. C., Kocaballi, A. B., Wang, Y., Laranjo, L., & Coiera, E. (2021). Symbolic And Statistical Learning Approaches to Speech Summarization: A Scoping Review. Computer Speech and Language, 72, 17 Pages. Doi:10.1016/J.Csl.2021.101305

Quiroz, J. C., Laranjo, L., Tufanaru, C., Kocaballi, A. B., Rezazadegan, D., Berkovsky, S., & Coiera, E. (2021). Empirical Analysis of Zipf’s Law, Power Law, And Lognormal Distributions in Medical Discharge Reports. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 145, 9 Pages. Doi:10.1016/J.Ijmedinf.2020.104324

Quiroz, J. C., Laranjo, L., Kocaballi, A. B., Briatore, A., Berkovsky, S., Rezazadegan, D., & Coiera, E. (2020). Identifying Relevant Information in Medical Conversations to Summarize a Clinician-Patient Encounter. Health Informatics Journal, 26(4), 2906-2914. Doi:10.1177/1460458220951719

Quiroz, J. C., Laranjo, L., Kocaballi, A. B., Berkovsky, S., Rezazadegan, D., & Coiera, E. (2019). Challenges Of Developing a Digital Scribe To Reduce Clinical Documentation Burden. Npj Digital Medicine, 2, 6 Pages. Doi:10.1038/S41746-019-0190-1

Kocaballi, A. B., Coiera, E., Tong, H. L., White, S. J., Quiroz, J. C., Rezazadegan, F., . . . Laranjo, L. (2019). A Network Model of Activities In Primary Care Consultations. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 26(10), 1074-1082. Doi:10.1093/Jamia/Ocz046

Coiera, E., Kocaballi, A. B., Halamka, J., & Laranjo, L. (2018). The Digital Scribe. Npj Digital Medicine, 1, 5 Pages. Doi:10.1038/S41746-018-0066-9