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| Content Provider | ACM Digital Library |
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| Author | Sakpal, Raghavi |
| Abstract | Cultural Competence has emerged as an important strategy in addressing issues of racial and ethnic disparities in a diversely populated country like the United States. The challenge for health care providers is to learn how cultural factors influence patients' responses to medial issues such as healing and suffering, as well as doctor-patient relationship. My research investigates a new approach for teaching cultural competency to health care providers -- using Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA) that represents different cultures. Objective: The goal of this project is to develop and test pool of culturally diverse virtual patients (VPs), as a training tool to teach nursing students effective communication technique (display cultural sensitivity) while interacting with patients from different cultures. Methods: 1) To develop VPs -- belonging to diverse culture, age and gender. 2) Develop Agent Architecture for cultural adaptation of the virtual patients. 3) Implement VPs in a clinical setting, as a tool to teach cultural sensitivity and communication skills to medical/nursing students. |
| Starting Page | 349 |
| Ending Page | 352 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| File Format | |
| ISBN | 9781450314671 |
| DOI | 10.1145/2388676.2388754 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Publisher Date | 2012-10-22 |
| Publisher Place | New York |
| Access Restriction | Subscribed |
| Subject Keyword | Virtual patient Healthcare Cultural competency Agent architecture |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
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