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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nurs Inq. 2018 Nov 12;26(1):e12267. doi: 10.1111/nin.12267

Table 1:

Definitions of Key Concepts

Epistemology: How we know what we know
Ontology: Inquiry into the nature of things; how things are
Pragmatism: The nature of the phenomenon determines the method; practical needs to inform the development of research frameworks
[Author] Method: A pragmatic method that generates data, guides analysis and knowledge contextualization to explain and predict for machine learning
Contextualization: Participants share their own experience of health behavior change, and how the message was understood is provided by clinicians through feedback
Mixed Methodology: Integrated quantitative and qualitative participatory design
Clinician-Based Machine Learning: A process whereby expert nurse clinicians assist in training a health-assistive AI agent by contextualizing sensor data with situational health-event information
Artificial Intelligence: A computer system (machine made of hardware and software) capable of performing tasks that normally require human intelligence; such as speech or activity recognition, or decision-making, and more
Ground Truth: Data patterns that are labeled by human experts to provide meaningful context; these data are classified by computer scientists and fed to the AI machine to train it