The Purpose of the Workshop "Smart Bots and Agents in Healthcare Applications" will be to bring together people which have or want to get experience in designing bots or smart agents.

The short lectures are intended to give some perspective on the use of smart agents and show some practical cases.

After each lecture there will be a moderated Discussion with the Auditorium. For the Auditorium a resource-collection of the lectures will be available

As Tutorial it would be intended to be devided into two parts a 1:45 hours with a 30 minute break.

PROGRAMME:

1. Smart Bots & Agents in HealthCare Applications: Possible Spectrum
Elsner, 15 min

2. HealthBot.NET  Smart Bots for Patient Screening and Education
Berger & Elsner, 60 min
Hands on: Open-ASP Platform for Bot-Design

3. Information Exchange with peripheral Devices: Aspects & Solutions
Pretlow, 30 min
Practical Example and Demonstration of a Device

BREAK

4. Automated Speech Systems and Smart Bots: Scenarios & Evaluation
Wolf & Berger, 20 min
With Hands-On: Integration of Speechtechnology

5. A simple Agent for medical Knowledge-Management.
Berger & Elsner, 30 min
Practical Example and some Sourcecode of the Application

6. Principles and Scenarios of automated Email-Routing and Tracking
Ramming & Elsner, 20 min
Some Basic Hints and Software for Field Study

7. Economical Aspects of Software Agents: Which szenarios are feasible?
Elsner, 15 min
With Demonstration of SmartBot for Trialscreening

DISCUSSION