"A Safe First Step": Design and Evaluation of an Emotionally Expressive AI Virtual Patient for Clinical Simulation in Speech-Language Pathology Training

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Authors: Yuqi Hu, YuJing Wang, Brandon Watanabe, Mingkai Gao, Zhenzhen Qin, Kunyi Shi, Zinan Zhang, Shreevidhya Shambanna, Zhuoying Xue, Tao Zou, Qiwen Xiong, Nia Johnson
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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8588902/v1
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Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education Surgical Simulation and Training

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Research Square
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4 February 2026
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