UIST Adjunct 2026AI-generated personas are being increasingly used for support, training and simulations. While generative AI models possess abilities to generate affect-aware responses, their embodiment into visual personas is an active area of investigation.
arXiv preprint 2026Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) is the dominant framework for aligning AI systems to human preferences. However, evaluation protocols for such data were designed for text and have not been validated for speech.
arXiv preprint 2026Depression is underdiagnosed in primary care, yet timely identification remains critical. Recorded clinical encounters, increasingly common with digital scribing technologies, present an opportunity to detect depression from naturalistic dialogue.
Neurological Research 2026**Background And Purpose**: Vascular Neurology (VN) fellowship education in CTA interpretation is critical, given the increased opportunities for tissue salvage via neurointervention. Holo-Stroke-CTA 3D visualization has already shown improved accuracy and satisfaction for vessel occlusion detection.
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 2026Attentional bias to alcohol cues is largely investigated using pictorial cues (i.e., two‐dimensional images). The addition of eye‐tracking metrics has improved these investigations yet are limited by a lack of naturalistic cues.
ACM IH 2026Community-engaged dissemination and implementation research focuses on the implementation of evidence-based interventions within clinical or community-based settings. It uses community-engaged processes or partnerships.
ACM IH 2026Designing effective interactive health systems requires rich, realistic data to inform user-centered design activities. However, accessing authentic health data introduces major barriers due to privacy rules (HIPAA, IRBs, data use agreements) governing protected health information.
ACM TOCHI 2026The one-to-one apprenticeship in many residency programs, while providing direct supervision from an assigned expert, lacks timely and diverse feedback, especially from other physicians with unique clinical tendencies. This often contributes to subpar training for high-stakes tasks with unstructured solutions, further diminishing education quality and patient safety.
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 2026Telestroke allows care irrespective of distance but has limitations in degree of immersive interaction. Augmented Reality (AR) holds promise, enabling providers and patients to interact as if in the same physical space.
IJROBP 2026Accurate contouring is essential for high-quality radiation therapy, yet variability remains common during training and beyond in clinical practice. This study qualitatively characterized contouring mistakes across different disease sites before and after site-specific clinical rotations. We hypothesized that residents would exhibit more errors pre-rotation, with improvement following rotation completion.