AI-powered Healthcare: Patient Trust, Engagement, and Ethics

Tampere University (TAU)

TAMPERE

Finland

14/16

Supervision

Juho Hamari
TAU, 1st Supervisor
Alberto Santos
DTU, 2nd Supervisor

Objectives

Enhance user trust in healthcare AI by promoting understanding of healthcare processes, treatments, and their correlation with protein data. Investigate ethical concerns and perceptions related to AI-driven health apps to ensure their optimal use.

Methodology

Conduct a literature review on AI in healthcare, emphasizing patient interactions and ethics. Design and develop gamified healthcare apps using conversational AI, enabling users to interact with AI as both caregivers and patients. Evaluate user experiences with the app considering various factors, collecting feedback from 100+ diverse users over multiple days through logs, surveys, and interviews.

Required skills

The candidate should have experience in AI and human-computer interaction, with interest in healthcare applications and ethics. Skills in app design and development, preferably with conversational or gamified interfaces, are desired. Experience in user studies, including survey design, data collection, and analysis, is an advantage.

Expected Results

The project will identify optimal gameful strategies for patient engagement with healthcare AI, offer insights into user perceptions of AI in healthcare roles, and produce guidelines for creating trustworthy healthcare AI systems.

Planned Secondments

Host: DTU (A. Santos), Duration: 2 Months; When: Year 1, Goal: Learning Framework to Aid Integration and Interpretation of Proteomics Data.

Host: UKHD (I. Bludau), Duration: 1 Month; When: Year2, Goal: Interpretation of complex proteomics data.

Host: UPF (J. Garcia-Ojalvo), Duration: 1 Month; When: Year 3, Goal: Impact of antibiotic resistance in society.

Enrolment in doctoral programs

Tampere University

References

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2 PUB. Spors, V., Laato, S., Buruk, O. O., & Hamari, J. (2023). Longing to be the Mountain: A Scoping Review about Nature-Centric, Health-Minded Technologies. CHI 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581479
3 Raftopoulos, M. & Hamari, J. (2023). Human-AI Collaboration in Organisations: A Literature Review on Enabling Value Creation. ECIS 2023 Research Papers. 381. https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2023_rp/381
4 Schmidt-Kraepelin, M., Toussaint, P. A., Thiebes, S., Hamari, J., & Sunyaev, A. (2020). Archetypes of gamification: analysis of mHealth apps. JMIR mHealth and uHealth. https://doi.org/10.2196%2F19280
5 Koivisto, J., & Hamari, J. (2019). The rise of motivational information systems: A review of gamification research. Intl. journal of information management, 45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2018.10.013

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