Previously submitted to: JMIR Serious Games (no longer under consideration since Oct 06, 2018)
Date Submitted: Mar 3, 2018
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An ontology-based, model-driven approach for dialogue simulation underlining communication skills in medical consultation
Background:
Communication and interpersonal skills for general practitioners in medical consultations play an important role in providing high-quality health care, and in establishing good doctor-patient relationships. Serious games are a good vector to enforce simulation exercises to develop effective communication strategies. In such games the learner plays the role of a health care provider and the patient is simulated by a computer program.
Objective:
The purpose of this study is to develop a dialogue engine that can simulate a doctor-patient dialogue during a consultation encounter process.
Methods:
We define a model of the medical consultation process and of the patient profile and use ontologies to feed a dialog engine
Results:
The proposed model is called the medical consultation process model (MCPM) and is implemented with an ontology called MSCOnto (Medical Consultation Session Ontology) and described in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) syntax. We explain the architecture and workflow of the dialogue engine and show how the engine can be set up to define different types of patient profiles, and to generate conversations depending on doctor choices.
Conclusions:
The model allows the representation of the processes and actors of a medical consultation. Processes are break down into phases, micro-sequences, dialogues session and phrases. Patient profiles and exchanged information can also be expressed. Tests have shown that the presented work lays the foundation of a system able to generate a realistic dialogue between a doctor and a patient.
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