CommSense

Currently funded by: The University of Virginia Engineering in Medicine Seed Pilot Program

This is a feasibility and acceptability pilot study to develop a novel software and associated algorithms (CommSense) that can: 1) be deployed on mobile devices, such as smart watches; 2) reliably capture patient-clinician interactions in a clinical setting; 3) process these communications to extract key markers of communication effectiveness/performance; and 4) ultimately provide real-time feedback to end-users to improve communication and patient health outcomes.

Publications:

Exploring the Use of Wearable Sensors and Natural Language Processing Technology to Improve Patient-Clinician Communication: Protocol for a Feasibility Study.