Personal Health Assistant

Virtual Personal Assistant

Personal digital assistant infectious diseases applications for health care professionals.

Personal digital assistants (PDAs; also known as "handheld computers," "pocket personal computers," and Palm Pilots) provide immediate access to vital and clinically relevant infectious diseases information at the point of care. Several infectious diseases applications are available that provide information on pathogens, diagnosis, medication, and treatment. In this article, 4 infectious diseas...

Personal Health Care Assistant/Companion in Virtual World

We propose to create a virtual personal health care assistant in the virtual world Second Life that accompanies the user, via an avatar, through interactions with healthcare databases answering the user's avatar's questions. This paper explores various ways to promote healthy in a virtual world environment by integrating several existing technologies.

From Personal Computer to Personal Assistant

Much of the confusion that surrounds electronic personal assistants arises from the open-ended complexity of their development. In this paper we categorise some of their more common uses before suggesting several thought-provoking extensions.

Evaluating A Personal Information Assistant

Personal Information Assistants that search on user’s behalf aim to fetch relevant documents on a regular basis. We have developed such assistant system and evaluated it using a long-term, task-oriented approach involving real users. Current evaluation methodologies are inadequate and hence have resorted to a long-term real user study. This paper describes the design and development of our syst...