The nonverbal structure of patient case discussions in multidisciplinary medical team meetings

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Luz, Saturnino ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Audio analysis; Dialogue segmentation; Meeting analysis; Multidisciplinary medical team meetings; Search of spontaneous speech

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ANALYSIS; AUDIO-VISUAL; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BAYESIAN CLASSIFICATION; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; MEDICAL TEAMS; MEETING ANALYSIS; PATIENT CASE; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPONTANEOUS INTERACTION; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMPETITION;

EID: 84867319404     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2328967.2328970     Document Type: Article

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