Multi-modal presentation of medical histories

Abstract

This paper describes a visualisation architecture that integrates graphical devices and natural language in a cooperative system for navigating through complex images of medical histories. We show how the addition of automatically generated natural language can be used to improve the usability of a graphical user interface and conversely how the graphical user interface can be used to specify the content of user customizable medical reports.

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