Authors:
Isac Cossa
1
;
Guilherme Campos
2
;
Pedro Sá Couto
3
and
João Lindo
4
Affiliations:
1
Higher School of Nautical Sciences, Avenida 10 de Novembro, Maputo and Mozambique
;
2
Dept. of Electronics, Telecom. and Informatics (DETI) / IEETA, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro and Portugal
;
3
Dept. of Mathematics (DMAT) / CIDMA, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal, School of Health Sciences (ESSUA) / Clinical Simul. Centre (SIMULA), University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro and Portugal
;
4
School of Health Sciences (ESSUA) / Clinical Simul. Centre (SIMULA), University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal, Centre for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS), 4200-450 Porto and Portugal
Keyword(s):
Speech Synthesis, Pre-recording, Case Study, Glasgow Coma Scale, Consciousness, Model, Markov Chain, Training, Instructor, Usability, Evaluation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Evaluation and Use of Healthcare IT
;
Health Information Systems
;
Human-Machine Interfaces
;
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Robotics and Automation
;
Software Systems in Medicine
Abstract:
This paper advocates the interest of applying speech synthesis to clinical simulation mannequins, by focussing on a particular case study of recognised practical interest (evaluation of consciousness level based on the Glasgow Coma Scale), chosen as a proof of concept. A response repository comprising 109 sentences was recorded and an application was developed in Microsoft® Visual Basic® to allow configuration of the simulation scenario, control of response generation on a low-fidelity mannequin equipped with a loudspeaker and assessment of trainee performance. The system received very positive assessment in initial user tests on a typical training setting.