Grant: Engage Plus Grants Program
Simon Fraser University
$4,000.00
Personalized Communication and Conversational Design for Online Health Social Networks
FY 2018-19
Summary
Curatio is a Vancouver-based company focused on the design of mobile applications to support people facing*chronic health situations. The company's goal is to connect patients and their family with networks of people*suffering from similar situations, provide health education around the health problem, and allow users to track*their daily routines and rhythms. We are interested and focused on making that platform more intelligent and*personalized and tailored to its individual users. While all existing related solutions offer a on-size-fit-all*approach, we are interested in working with Curatio to focus on building the first social health prescription*platform. Like a medical prescription, such a technical platform should be fully intelligent and individualized.*Toward this objective, with Curatio we have developed and deployed two intelligent recommendation*components to its platform which recommends peers and content to its individual users. Curatio's ultimate*goals is to be available to all patients all around the world. One big challenge toward this goal is there are many*health conditions, it is not feasible to build and develop community and services for every single of these*conditions manually. There are two ways we can move toward this goal: 1- Develop a general-purpose*platform which can host all conditions. Examples of these are forums, Facebook pages 2- Design and develop a*personalized platform which provide scalable, sustainable and automated services and strategies. With Curatio*we aim to do the second one. In our third step (the first two being the user and content recommendation*components), we would like to create an implementation of a personalized intelligent virtual companion*(Agent) for the user. The Agent will collect information about the user and build a user model from the user*and will interact with the user through available defined action on the platform. Our hypothesis is that*personalization of the user experience in the platform will have positive impact on the engagement of the*existing users on the platform
Program
Engage Plus Grants Program
Recipient
Location
British Columbia, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
537213-2018
Name nom
DiPaola, Stephen
Department département
Interactive Arts and Technology, School of (SIAT)
Organization id
5
Institution établissement
Simon Fraser University
Province en
British Columbia
Province fr
Colombie-Britannique
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2018
Competition year année de concours
2018
Award amount
4000
Program id
EGP2
Program name en
Engage Plus Grants Program
Program name fr
Programme de subvention d'engagement partenarial Plus
Group en
Research partnerships programs
Group fr
Programmes de partenariat
Committee code
1554
Committee name en
Pacific Internal Decision Committee
Committee name fr
Comité de décision interne pour le Pacifique
Area of application code
1207
Area of application group en
Advancement of knowledge
Area of application group fr
Avancement des connaissances
Area of application en
Information, computer and communication technologies
Area of application fr
Technologie de l'information, des ordinateurs et des réseaux de communications
Research subject code
2800
Research subject group en
Artificial intelligence
Research subject group fr
Intelligence artificielle
Research subject en
Artificial intelligence (computer vision, use2603)
Research subject fr
Intelligence artificielle (vision artificielle, utiliser 2603)
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Personalized Communication and Conversational Design for Online Health Social Networks
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Curatio is a Vancouver-based company focused on the design of mobile applications to support people facing*chronic health situations. The company's goal is to connect patients and their family with networks of people*suffering from similar situations, provide health education around the health problem, and allow users to track*their daily routines and rhythms. We are interested and focused on making that platform more intelligent and*personalized and tailored to its individual users. While all existing related solutions offer a on-size-fit-all*approach, we are interested in working with Curatio to focus on building the first social health prescription*platform. Like a medical prescription, such a technical platform should be fully intelligent and individualized.*Toward this objective, with Curatio we have developed and deployed two intelligent recommendation*components to its platform which recommends peers and content to its individual users. Curatio's ultimate*goals is to be available to all patients all around the world. One big challenge toward this goal is there are many*health conditions, it is not feasible to build and develop community and services for every single of these*conditions manually. There are two ways we can move toward this goal: 1- Develop a general-purpose*platform which can host all conditions. Examples of these are forums, Facebook pages 2- Design and develop a*personalized platform which provide scalable, sustainable and automated services and strategies. With Curatio*we aim to do the second one. In our third step (the first two being the user and content recommendation*components), we would like to create an implementation of a personalized intelligent virtual companion*(Agent) for the user. The Agent will collect information about the user and build a user model from the user*and will interact with the user through available defined action on the platform. Our hypothesis is that*personalization of the user experience in the platform will have positive impact on the engagement of the*existing users on the platform
