International Journal of Educational Research . The following brief summaries describe three such applications. Each application was developed in collaboration with another laboratory. Non-compliance is typically caused by lack of understanding. For example, a patient might not follow instructions because he or she does not understand the difference between acute and prophylactic medication.
Physicians have little time to explain such concepts to patients.
A computer-based patient education system was designed at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh. The system used artificial intelligence techniques to adapt answers to individual patients. Preliminary evaluations were positive. An intelligent interactive system for delivering individualized information to patients. In particular, the US Navy has to train large numbers of radar operators for its destroyers and other war ships.