title: A Comparative Analysis between Experts and Novices Interacting with a Virtual Patient with PTSD.
abstract: Virtual patients will provide a means to train the next generation of clinical residents. Interacting and engaging with virtual characters portraying standardized patients can have meaningful outcomes. As a cumulative set of data analysis, we investigate the comparison of how well novices, subjects without any clinical interviewing background, with experts, clinicians, or resident student clinicians with interviewing skills to assess if they could elicit the proper information from verbal interactions with a virtual character.
authors: Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292, USA.
authors: Patrick G
authors: PG
authors: Kenny
authors: Thomas D
authors: TD
authors: Parsons
authors: Albert
authors: A
authors: Rizzo
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic; D014584:User-Computer Interface