Projects
Projects
The projects developed by HR Lab can be divided mainly into two areas: Core Research and Applications.
Core Research includes the study of argumentative practices in clinical settings; the identification and description of dialogue moves in relation to different communicative aims; the identification and description of relevant dialogic strategies in relation to different clinical settings and clinical goals.
> Dialogues in clinical settings
Applications includes different ways in which results from the core research can be translated to the professional or public contexts.
> Implementation of research in the clinical practice
> Telehealth / Artificial Intelligence
> Dissemination
> Healthcare professionals training
Core Research
> Dialogues in clinical settings
Linguistic indicators of engagement
ongoing collaborations
Is it possible to identify discursive practices that favor patient engagement? Is it possible to point out linguistic indicators of...
Linguistic indicators of resilience
ongoing collaborations
Is it possible to identify linguistic indicators of resilience in discourse produced by professionals working in high risk situations...
The boundaries of hope
ongoing collaborations
What is hope in end-of-life situations? Can hope be fostered by the application of early palliative care therapies?...
Metaphors for diabetes
ongoing collaborations
We know that metaphors are commonly used in scientific discourse, often in spite of speakers’ awareness of using them...
Encounters in ART
ongoing collaborations
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) consists in a series of procedures which can help couples conceive in spite of fertility issues...
Argumentative practices in different clinical contexts
topics
How much does argumentative competence count in clinical encounters? Is persuasion...
MeDa/MeDa-RIAS
topics
The complex structure of real life dialogues somehow escapes a top-down description based only on a description of the global communicative intention...
Doctor-Patient Communication Project
- funded projects -
This project has run from 2012 to 2014 and yielded the creation of the diabetes corpus on which the Healthy Reasoning project was built...
Healthy Reasoning Project
- funded projects -
The HR Project was funded by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research and based at Catholic University in Milan...
Applications
> Implementation of research in the clinical practice
pEACH Network
ongoing collaborations
Sarah Bigi is a member of the pEACH committee, within EACH-International Association for Communication in Healthcare...
> Telehealth / Artificial Intelligence
Active Ageing app
- funded projects -
Between 2015 and 2017, we had the opportunity to develop and test a web application to support diabetes patients’ self-management abilities...
A new agenda for healthcare
topics
We are conscious that the Covid-19 pandemic will permanently affect the way we understand telehealth. Communication skills will be...
> Dissemination
Communicating the pandemic
ongoing collaborations
The Covid-19 pandemic has spurred a variety of studies worldwide on the language used to translate scientific topics, along with risks...
COST Action APPLY
ongoing collaborations
The HRLab contributes to WG3 within the COST Action “APPLY - The European network for Argumentation and Public Policy analysis”, aimed at improving...