The DigiCare project is funded by the European Social Fund through the Excellence Initiative of the State Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The project addresses the interactive digitalisation of study materials for nursing subjects including a semantic tutoring system and a chatbot-based interactive support. The project consortium consists of the Junior Research Group CoMSA²t which Kristina Yordanova was leading before founding the Institute for Data Science at the University of Greifswald, the Mobile Multimedia Information Systems Group, and the Practical Computer Science Group, all of them at the University of Rostock, the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases Rostock, and the University of Applied Science in Neubrandenburg. The project will continue until 2022.

Short Facts:

• Project title: Joint project DigiCare: Digital Training of Nursing and Health Management
• Sub-project at the CoMSA²t jounior research group: Development of a chatbot-based tutoring systems for students in nursing and health management subjects
• Project homepage:https://pidi.informatik.uni-rostock.de/forschung/projekte/digicare/
• Runtime: 01.07.2019 – 30.06.2022
• Sponsor:Europäischer Sozialfond ESF
• Budget: > 440.000 Euro at CoMSA²t (about 2.300.000 Euro in total)
   

Collaboration Partners:

• Practical Computer Science Group, Institute of Computer Science, University of Rostock
• Junior Research Group CoMSA²t, University of Rostock
• University of Applied Science Neubrandenburg, Department of Health, Nursing, and Management
• German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases Rostock / Greifswald
• University Library, University of Rostock

Project-related publications:

2023

• Tomasz Sosnowski, Moh'd Abuazizeh, Thomas Kirste, Kristina Yordanova. Development of a Conversational Agent for Tutoring Nursing Students to Interact with Patients. In Proceedings of the Internetional Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Corfu, Greece. 2023 [full text]

2021

• Moh’d Abuazizeh, Thomas Kirste, Kristina Yordanova. Affect-aware Conversational Agent for Intelligent Tutoring of Students in Nursing Subjects.In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Virtual conference. April 2021 [full text]
• Tomasz Sosnowski and Kristina Yordanova. Antonym Disambiguation for a German-language Conversational Intelligent Tutoring System. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Work in Progress Session). Virtual conference. March 2021 [full text]

2020

• Tomasz Sosnowski and Kristina Yordanova. A Probabilistic Conversational Agent for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Workshop Proceedings of PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference. Corfu, Greece. 2020. [full text]
• Moh’d Abuazizeh, Thomas Kirste, Kristina Yordanova. Computational State Space Model for Intelligent Tutoring of Students in Nursing Subjects. In Workshop Proceedings of PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference. Corfu, Greece. 2020. [full text]