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Pro-active Meeting Assistants : Attention Please!
This paper gives an overview of pro-active meeting assistants, what they are and when they can be useful. We explain how to develop such assistants with respect to requirement definitions and elaborate on a set of Wizard of Oz experiments, aiming to find out in which form a meeting assistant should operate to be accepted by participants and whether the meeting effectiveness and efficiency can be improved by an assistant at all
Pro-active Meeting Assistants: Attention Please!
This paper gives an overview of pro-active meeting assistants, what they are and when they can be useful. We explain how to develop such assistants with respect to requirement definitions and elaborate on a set of Wizard of Oz experiments, aiming to find out in which form a meeting assistant should operate to be accepted by participants and whether the meeting effectiveness and efficiency can be improved by an assistant at all. This paper gives an overview of pro-active meeting assistants, what they are and when they can be useful. We explain how to develop such assistants with respect to requirement definitions and elaborate on a set of Wizard of Oz experiments, aiming to find out in which form a meeting assistant should operate to be accepted by participants and whether the meeting effectiveness and efficiency can be improved by an assistant at all
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V-ROOM: a virtual meeting system with intelligent structured summarisation
With the growth of virtual organisations and multinational companies, virtual collaboration tasks are becoming more important for employees. This paper describes the development of a virtual meeting system, called V-ROOM. An exploration of facilities required in such a system has been conducted. The findings highlighted that intelligent systems are needed, especially since information that individuals have to know and process, is vast. The survey results showed that meeting summarisation is one of the most important new features that should be added to virtual meeting systems for enterprises. This paper highlights the innovative methods employed in V-ROOM to produce relevant meeting summaries. V- ROOM's approach is compared to other methods from the literature and it is shown how the use of meta-data provided by parts of the V-ROOM system can improve the quality of summaries produced
Collaborative group support in e-Health
In critical areas such as decision making, the Collaborative
Work has an uttermost importance. Being a complex
problem, the collective decision taking is currently a popular form
of taking decisions. In this work we present the VirtualECare
project: an intelligent multi-agent system able to monitor, interact
and serve its customers (in need of care services). In developed
countries, recent census data report a sudden increase in the
elderly community together with a decrease of child birth.
This is a new reality that needs to be dealt by the health
sector, particularly by the public one. In an early stage, this
new situation appears mostly as a financial problem. The costs
involved in the health care are considerable. Thus, alternative
technological solutions that lead to straightforward solutions
should be adopted. Recently, a growing interest in combining the
advances in information society - computing, telecommunications
and presentation - to create Group Decision Support Systems
(GDSS), has been observed. It is our view that the use of the
GDSS in the health care area will pursue the achievement of
better results in terms of patients Electronically Clinical Profile
(ECP). Additionally, we believe that the best way of managing
health appointments is through the use of calendars - one
application that can manage both the physicians and patients
calendars and consequently their day schedule. Within this area,
the approaches used in the VirtualECare and iGenda projects
are presented.(undefined
An Approach to Agent-Based Service Composition and Its Application to Mobile
This paper describes an architecture model for multiagent systems that was developed in the European project LEAP (Lightweight Extensible Agent Platform). Its main feature is a set of generic services that are implemented independently of the agents and can be installed into the agents by the application developer in a flexible way. Moreover, two applications using this architecture model are described that were also developed within the LEAP project. The application domain is the support of mobile, virtual teams for the German automobile club ADAC and for British Telecommunications
Visualizations for an Explainable Planning Agent
In this paper, we report on the visualization capabilities of an Explainable
AI Planning (XAIP) agent that can support human in the loop decision making.
Imposing transparency and explainability requirements on such agents is
especially important in order to establish trust and common ground with the
end-to-end automated planning system. Visualizing the agent's internal
decision-making processes is a crucial step towards achieving this. This may
include externalizing the "brain" of the agent -- starting from its sensory
inputs, to progressively higher order decisions made by it in order to drive
its planning components. We also show how the planner can bootstrap on the
latest techniques in explainable planning to cast plan visualization as a plan
explanation problem, and thus provide concise model-based visualization of its
plans. We demonstrate these functionalities in the context of the automated
planning components of a smart assistant in an instrumented meeting space.Comment: PREVIOUSLY Mr. Jones -- Towards a Proactive Smart Room Orchestrator
(appeared in AAAI 2017 Fall Symposium on Human-Agent Groups
Evaluating The Use Of Reflective Practice Principles To Support Nurse Manager Well-Being During A Period Of Chronic Distress
The COVID-19 pandemic brought forward a crisis that the current U.S. healthcare system was not prepared for. This increased the risk for burnout of teams and individuals, including the nurse leader. Nurse managers were selected as the target audience for support because they are key clinical leaders at the unit and staff level, yet they report feeling undervalued and are at higher risk for turnover than other leaders. This project developed a program that used reflective practice principles to support nurse manager well-being during periods of chronic distress.
The curriculum was guided by the Dimensions of Leadership as framework for nurse managers to engage in reflective practices to increase Joy in Work and support well-being. It was delivered to two cohorts over a period of 13 weeks; one cohort received live training on campus, and another cohort received pre-recorded and on demand modules. Knowledge of reflective practice principles and self-reported Joy in Work was measured pre and post program participation. A program evaluation was used to assess subjective feedback.
The two cohorts were small, however, analysis demonstrated that there was statistical significance in the outcomes measured and there was an increase in both knowledge and Joy in Work. A thematic analysis of the program evaluations found that nurse managers appreciated the offering that was designed exclusively for their unique role, they enjoyed the opportunity to gather and learn with peers, and that they desired more time to engage with the facilitator and each other
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