Another interesting person I met at #healthfoo:
Kendra Markle hangs out at Stanford and does work on emotional automation, asking the question,"How can technology represent and convey compassion to augment the doctor-patient relationship?" It turns out that having a compassionate listener, even a computerized one, can help people improve adherence with medical treatment regimes.
An example is Carmen, an computerized person developed by Tim Bickmore at Northeastern University, which has dialogues with elderly patients and others that "build and maintain long-term, social-emotional relationships."
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