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Exploring the use of wearable sensors and natural language processing technology to improve patient-clinician communication: Protocol for a feasibility study
JMIR Research Protocols, 11(5):e37975, 2022
LeBaron, V., Boukhechba, M., Edwards, J., Flickinger, T., Ling, D. & Barnes, LE
Feasibility and acceptability testing of CommSense: A novel communication technology to enhance health equity in clinician-patient interactions
Digital Health, 2023
LeBaron, V., Flickinger, T., Ling, D., Lee, D., Edwards, J., Tewari, A., Wang, Z., Barnes, L
CommSense: A Wearable Sensing Computational Framework for Evaluating Patient-Clinician Interactions
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 2024
Wang, Z., Hassan, N., LeBaron, V., Flickinger, T., Ling, D., Edwards, J., Wu, C., Bouckhechba, M., & Barnes, L
PALLM: Evaluating and Enhancing Palliative Care Conversations with Large Language Models
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare. Special Issue on Large Language Models, Conversational Systems, and Generative AI in Health, 2024
Wang, Z., Yuan, F., LeBaron, V., Flickinger, T. & Barnes, L
Stakeholder-centric participation in Large Language Models Enhanced Health Systems
npj Health Systems. 2 (22), 2025
Wang, Z., Yan, R., Francis, S., Diaz, C., Flickinger, T., Lin, Y., Barnes, L. & LeBaron, V
Implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Supported Communication Tools in Healthcare: System Level Perspectives.
Digital Health. (submitted August 2025), 2025
Diaz, C., Reed, K., Barnes, L., Flickinger, T., Truong, T., Wang, Z., & LeBaron, V
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Evidence-based approach to designing wearable technology to improve patient-clinician communication
Presentation, 20th International Conference on Communication in Healthcare (ICCH), September 2022
Presenter: Tabor Flickinger
Developing ‘best practices’ communication metrics to inform design of wearable technology to improve patient-clinician interactions
Presentation, McGill International Congress on Palliative Care, October 2022
Presenter: Virginia LeBaron
Evaluating acceptability and feasibility of CommSense, a novel wearable technology to improve clinician-patient communication
Presentation, Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Annual Conference, May 2023
Presenter: Tabor Flickinger
Testing the feasibility and acceptability of wearable technology to improve patient-clinician communication
Presentation, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) State of the Science, March 2024
Presenter: Virginia LeBaron
CommSense: A wearable-based computational framework for evaluating patient-clinician interaction
Presentation, The 27th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, November 2024
Presenter: Zhiyuan Wang
CommSense: Improving patient-clinician communication with AI and wearable sensing technologies
Presentation, University of Virginia Clinical AI Symposium, September 2025
Presenter: Virginia LeBaron
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Trish Truong
Nursing Student, University of Virginia, School of Nursing
Sarah Go
Ph.D. Student, University of Virginia, School of Nursing
Ayisha Alhassan
Ph.D. Student, University of Virginia, School of Nursing
Fangxu Yuan
Ph.D. Student, University of Virginia, School of Engineering
Kelly Reed
Ph.D. Student, University of Virginia, School of Nursing
Md Sabbir Ahmed
Ph.D. Student, University of Virginia, School of Engineering
Zhiyuan Wang
Ph.D. Student, University of Virginia, School of Engineering
Lauren Catlett
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Virginia, School of Nursing
Tabor Flickinger
MD MPH, Associate Professor, University of Virginia, School of Medicine
Laura Barnes
Professor, University of Virginia, School of Engineering
Virginia LeBaron
Associate Professor, University of Virginia, School of Nursing