university of Hawaii Manoa's team won the Best Novelty and Impact Award at an international hackathon for projects aimed at transforming community health workers (CHW) Support patients during and after remote check-in.
Winning work “Aurion” CHW Compassion Kit' uses voice analysis and artificial intelligence to act as a 'digital co-pilot' that flags hidden signs of distress. The system analyzes both what a patient says and how they say it, through the tone and pace of their speech, detecting possible signs of emotional or mental distress and sending discreet alerts to patients. CHW It also provides context-aware suggestions to guide a more collaborative response.
Aurion's goal is to reduce missed emotional cues and reduce workload. CHW That way, we can focus more on providing people with the care they need. In addition to real-time support, this tool streamlines post-conversation management workflows. This tool is designed to reduce post-conversation paperwork. CHW Autofilling forms can save you around 70%.
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“We especially wanted to create something that could make a real difference here.” Hawaii“Tools like this have the potential to improve care in communities where access and distance can be major challenges,” Sadmane said.
The hackathon was held on December 5th-6th. ah Manoa Campus Center and part of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (Azul) The workshop will be held from December 6th to December 10th at the Hyatt Regency in Waikiki. The event brought together students, researchers, and experts to develop solutions to real-world challenges in speech and language technology.
The team presented their results during the main session Azul They presented the 2025 program orally in front of the judges, as well as presented it as a poster to the general audience, and received a certificate of achievement.
