SmartState: An Automated Research Protocol Adherence System
Key features and benefits of SmartState include:
- Automated management of participant interactions, communications, and data collection, reducing the workload on researchers and preventing errors or inconsistencies.
- Use of finite state machines to track participant progress and ensure adherence to study protocols, preventing critical steps from being skipped.
- Integration of a large language model to facilitate natural language interactions with participants, distill conversations into structured data, and automate responses.
- Provision of a web-based platform for researchers to access participant logs, reports, and messaging utilities, enabling seamless interaction with the underlying system.
- Increased scalability and efficiency for large studies, making it applicable to many research areas.Detailed auditing capabilities to trace a participant’s exact path through a study, preventing disputes between researchers and participants
Clinical Research projects currently using SmartState:
- Time-Restricted Eating Intervention in Normal and Cognitively Impaired Postmenopausal Women
- Time-Restricted Eating and Sleep Intervention in College Students
- Optimal CT
- Plant-Based Diet for Diabetes Prevention (PBDDP)
Below is the latest submission to the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Informatics Summit 2025.