title: MAGIC: an experimental system for generating multimedia briefings about post-bypass patient status.
abstract: We describe MAGIC, an experimental system for generating multimedia briefings about the clinical status of post-bypass patients entering a cardiac ICU. MAGIC is a distributed system whose components use knowledge-based techniques for planning and generating briefings in text, speech, and graphics. These briefings are coordinated together by reasoning with dynamically generated temporal and spatial constraints. Formative evaluation using system mock-ups with ICU nurses and residents have been used to determine the general format and content of these briefings. We present an overview of MAGIC's architecture and show what it can currently generate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dalal
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Feiner
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McKeown
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jordan
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: alSafadi
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000451:nursing; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D019212:Multimedia; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000379:methods*