Medical monitoring virtual human with situational awareness
AssigneeUniversity of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
InventorsGregory Welch, Gerd Bruder
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AssigneeUniversity of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
InventorsGregory Welch, Gerd Bruder
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Virtual humans exhibit behaviors associated with inputs and outputs of an autonomous control system for medical monitoring of patients. To foster the awareness and trust, the virtual humans exhibit situational awareness via apparent (e.g., rendered) behaviors based on inputs such as physiological vital signs. The virtual humans also exhibit situational control via apparent behaviors associated with outputs such as direct control of devices, functions of control, actions based on high-level goals, and the optional use of virtual versions of conventional physical controls. A dynamic virtual human who continually exhibits awareness of the system state and relevant contextual circumstances, along with the ability to directly control the system, is used to reduce negative feelings associated with the system such as uncertainty, concern, stress, or anxiety on the part of real human patients.
A computer-implemented method of automated anxiety reduction for a monitored medical patient, a computer processor generating visual attentive gesture images of virtual human having situational awareness of the physiological state of the monitored medical patient, the visual attentive gesture images generated through a display device viewable by the patient, the method comprising the steps of:
An electronic device for anxiety reduction for a monitored medical patient, the electronic device having a computer processor generating visual attentive gesture images of virtual human having situational awareness of the physiological state of the monitored medical patient through the electronic device having a display screen viewable by the patient, the electronic device comprising:
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