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Demystifying Explanation of Benefits

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The United States' medical billing system is exceptionally complex. Medical bills and Explanation of Benefits (EOB) statements are undecipherable and incomprehensible even for experts to understand. In addition, a 2015 survey conducted by TransUnion Healthcare found that 55% of American patients were either sometimes or always confused about their medical bills and that 61% of patients were either sometimes or always surprised about their out-of-pocket costs.

Explainable AI

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Entertainment Intelligence Lab

In the near future, autonomous and semi-autonomous systems will interact with us with greater frequency. When they fail or perform unexpected behaviors, non-experts must be able to determine what went wrong. We introduce "rationalization", a technique for automatically generating natural language explanations as if another human were describing what the autonomous system was doing.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXcuLEBwXsQ

CHAT - A Dolphin Interaction Wearable

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Contextual Computing Group

CHAT (Cetacean Hearing Augmentation & Telemetry) is a wearable underwater computer system, engineered to assist researchers in establishing two-way communication with dolphins. The project seeks to facilitate the study of marine mammal cognition by providing a waterproof mobile computing platform. An underwater speaker and keyboard enables the researchers to generate whistles. The system is equipped with a two channel hydrophone array used for localization and recognition of specific responses that are translated into audio feedback.