Mario Crespo

A novel multimodal tool for telemonitoring patients with COPD

Introduction: Among factors that underlie high rates of non-participation reported in telehealth interventions are the low older users’ acceptance of information technologies and the low levels of non-compliance with therapy of chronic patients. Therefore, inclusion of potential users into design stages of assistive technologies is challenging. In this paper, the design, implementation and evaluation of a multimodal mobile application for telemonitoring chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is presented. The goal of the study was to assess the usability and feasibility of the designed tool. Methods: An iterative user-centered design methodology was applied to implement a prototype that satisfied users’ requirements. Feasibility (compliance, COPD knowledge and satisfaction) of the application was assessed in a 6-month field trial with COPD patients. Results: A usable, effective and efficient prototype was released after the development process. A high compliance (86.1%) and an increasing in COPD knowledge were achieved in the field trial. Conclusions: The findings reveal the importance of integrating usability in the design development processes to improve adherence to routine tasks and to reduce the high rates of non-participation reported in recent evaluation studies of telehealth interventions. The presented tool can help to recognize early symptoms of deterioration and to support patients in COPD self-management.

AMICA telemedicine platform: a design for management of elderly people with COPD

The aim of this work is to establish some basic methodological aspects that should not be ignored in the arduous task of the development of telemedical platforms for the efficient control and management of chronic elderly patients. Among the main methodological proposed concepts should be: an integrated market-oriented approach, a user-centered design, an evaluation-driven development and a work plan organization. This work presents the methodology applied to Autonomy, Motivation,& Individual Self Management for COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) Patients (AMICA), project funded by the European Union (EU).

Telemonitoring in AMICA: A design based on and for COPD

The aim of this work is to put forth some basic methodological aspects that are being followed in the demanding task of the development of a telemedical platform for the efficient control and management of chronic elderly patients. Among the main methodological concepts proposed there is: an integrated market-oriented approach, a user-centered design, an evaluation-driven development and a work plan organization. This work presents the methodology applied to Autonomy, Motivation & Individual Self- Management for COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) Patients (AMICA) project funded under the European Union (EU). Results from first the demonstration trial highlight the suitability of the methodology adopted.

Collaborative Dialogue Agent for COPD Self-management in AMICA: A First Insight

This work presents the dialogue interface that is being developed for the AMICA project, aimed at self-management and follow-up of patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This platform tries to overcome possible problems of interaction of patients by extending the traditional mouse and keyboard with new information-communication technologies such as natural dialogue. Since most of these patients are elderly, these technologies can help suit their users’ needs and overcome their impairment by providing more natural ways of interacting with technology. The first analyses suggest that dialogue models must be flexible enough to be adapted to requirements of natural language.

DrugNerAR: linguistic rule-based anaphora resolver for drug-drug interaction extraction in pharmacological documents

DrugNerAR, a drug anaphora resolution system is presented to address the problem of co-referring expressions in pharmacological literature. This development is part of a larger and innovative study about automatic drug-drug interaction extraction. Besides, a corpus has been developed in order to analyze the phenomena and evaluate the current approach. The system uses a set of linguistic rules inspired by Centering Theory over the analysis provided by a biomedical syntactic parser. Semantic information provided by Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is also integrated in order to improve the recognition and the resolution of nominal drug anaphors. This linguistic rule-based approach shows very promising results for the challenge of accounting for anaphoric expressions in pharmacological texts.

RETOS DE LA ESTILÍSTICA FORENSE EN EL ÁMBITO DEL DISCURSO ELECTRÓNICO DELICTIVO

Despite its benefits, Internet provides an accessible, affordable and anonymous way for the dissemination of offensive contents or hate speeches. Among their object of study Forensic Linguistics includes the authorship attribution of this type of messages. This study looks into the key methodological aspects to be considered in Authorship Attribution. The selection of the more appropriate features, the text size and how to draw conclusions from data are among them. There is still a long way to solve some of the problems related to them in this scientific field.