Development of a Knowledge-Based System for Help in Decision Making: a Medical Application
Résumé
A part of the work of a physiotherapist consists on analysing its patients’ motion capacities. In the case
of motion analysis, some difficulties can hinder the evaluation process: attention can be diverted,
situations can be delicate to evaluate. The consequence is an inter-individual variability and uncertainty
during the evaluation. New motion sensors make it possible to record and analyse the motions with
another point of view. Those tools can be used to help in the capture, but the restitution of the recorded
information needs to be adapted to the user knowledge with the aim to be interpreted. In this paper, the
authors propose to put the user at the center of this tool in an application of the UCD principle by
proposing a method to return information based on a Knowledge Based structure. The restitution
modules and tools are constructed on different levels of knowledge represented in a knowledge-based
expert system. The knowledge has been structured into 4 levels (from the most factual to the most
abstract) and were linked to 4 levels of restitution (from the most textual to the most graphical). A casestudy
using the assessment scale “Motor Function Measure” is presented.