Virtual patients for clinical therapist skills training

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4722 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 197-210

  Kenny, Patrick ^a   Parsons, Thomas D ^a   Gratch, Jonathan ^a   Leuski, Anton ^a   Rizzo, Albert A ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Psychopathology; Virtual humans; Virtual patients

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; E-LEARNING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

ITERATIVE DESIGN; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; SKILLS TRAINING; VIRTUAL HUMANS; VIRTUAL PATIENTS;

INTELLIGENT VIRTUAL AGENTS;

EID: 37249070915     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74997-4_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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