Ruth S. Day

Journal Article Journal of biomedical informatics · October 2006 Researchers are generally trained to administer informed consent by studying approved guidelines, but still can fail to satisfactorily answer questions from potential participants. An application using a virtual character allowed novice participants to pra ... Full text Cite

Understanding the frequency and severity of side effects: Linguistic, numeric, and visual representations

Journal Article Aaai Spring Symposium Technical Report · August 21, 2006 Side effects for prescription drugs vary in their severity and frequency of occurrence. Understanding the status of a given drug on both these dimensions is important for physicians during the prescribing process, for regulators and industry in the approva ... Cite

Comprehension of prescription drug information: Overview of a research program

Journal Article Aaai Spring Symposium Technical Report · August 21, 2006 Both patients and healthcare professionals must understand information about prescription drugs to help them use medications in a safe and effective manner. However drug information materials can be difficult to understand - they can be long, detailed, tec ... Cite

Understanding the Frequency and Severity of Side Effects: Patients vs. Medical Experts

Journal Article American Association of Artificial Intelligence · 2006 Terminology that describes side effects, used in prescription drug information literature such as the Physicians Desk Reference and patient leaflets, includes many frequency and severity terms. Decisions made by medical professionals regarding side effects ... Cite

A synthetic character application for informed consent

Journal Article Aaai Fall Symposium Technical Report · December 1, 2004 We developed an application using synthetic character technology to allow users to practice administering informed consent. The target audience for this application is health communications researchers, field interviewers, and others who administer informe ... Cite

Alternative representations

Journal Article Psychology of Learning and Motivation Advances in Research and Theory · January 1, 1988 This chapter presents approaches for studying a comprehensive view of the role of representation in human cognition. The most fundamental problem confronting cognitive psychology is the way to represent theoretically the knowledge of a person. A popular ap ... Full text Cite

Processing two dimensions of nonspeech stimuli: the auditory-phonetic distinction reconsidered.

Journal Article Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · May 1976 Nonspeech stimuli were varied along two dimensions--intensity and rise time. In a series of speeded classification tasks, subjected were asked to identify the stimuli in terms of one of these dimensions. Identification time for the dimension of rise time i ... Full text Cite

Failure of selective attention to phonetic segments in consonant-vowel syllables

Journal Article Perception Psychophysics · July 1, 1975 Subjects performed a two-choice speeded classification task that required selective attention to either the consonant or the vowel in synthetic consonant-vowel (CV) syllables. When required to attend selectively to the consonant, subjects could not ignore ... Full text Cite

Auditory evoked potentials during speech perception.

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · September 1971 Neural responses evoked by the same binaural speech signal were recorded from ten right-handed subjects during two auditory identification tasks. One task required analysis of acoustic parameters important for making a linguistic distinction, while the oth ... Full text Cite

Ruth S. Day

Selected Publications

Alternative representations of side effects

Informed consent procedures: an experimental test using a virtual character in a dialog systems training application.