IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (T-ITB)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue: Affective and Pervasive Computing for Healthcare
Starting in the 1960s emotion and affective phenomenon research has
entered an Emotion Renaissance era due to new findings establishing
the universality of emotions across the human species along with
their evolutionary adaptive and functional role in ‘rational’
intelligence (e.g. memory, decision-making), social intelligence (e.g.
communication, adaptation). In the past decade, additional studies
such as the one related in Descarte’s Error (Damasio, 1994), revealed
surprising results about the nervous system organization, suggesting
that emotions and affective processes might play an even more
important role in intelligence, health recovery and prevention, and
overall well-being than ever suspected.
These findings on emotions and affects from psychology, neuroscience
and sociology call for innovation in information and communications
technology for enabling, and facilitating intelligent interpretation
of affective health data; decision support systems for diagnostic,
computer assisted health care; remote guidance and virtual reality
applications in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; privacy
security and trust necessary for user acceptance of technologies;
human-computer interfacing and usability engineering; novel patient
modelling; and multimodal intelligent affective user interfaces.
This special issue will focus on the novel and practical ways, and
solid contributions, to improve affective computing and pervasive
technologies. We welcome papers that focus on novel applications of
wireless telemedicine,of embedded sensor and actuators for affective
processing, novel user interfaces and patient-modeling for use by
caregivers and/or patients in a variety of health care domains,
virtual reality and virtual environments for phychotherapeutic
diagnostic, treatment, and support/assistance coaching. We also
encourage surveys of available technologies, and reporting on user
experiences.
Papers that do not focus on affective social processing for healthcare
and applications will
not be reviewed. Specific interests are in (but not limited to) the
following areas:
· Network architectures for wireless telemedicine
· Mobile service platform for continuity of healthcare
· Privacy and security in affective/pervasive healthcare
· Wireless and pervasive networks for telemedicine
· Autonomic wireless sensor networks
· Body area networks
· Affective Signal processing techniques
Sensors and mobile devices for continuous patient monitoring of affect-
relevant events
Multimodal integration and fusion for contextual information
processing for health care systems
Actuators, prompters, and virtual environments/characters for
rehabilitation and behavior modification
Social Intelligent orthotics
Privacy architectures for affective medical records
Issues in healthcare technology standards, interoperability, security,
usability, cost, ethics and privacy, etc
Emotional and social context awareness
Context-awareness user-modeling for healthcare
Implementation and design issues for human-centered socially
intelligent user-interfaces
User acceptance issues and challenges (patients and caregivers)
Manuscripts must be prepared according to the format of the IEEE
Transactions ( http://bme.ee.cuhk.edu.hk/TITB/) and electronically
submitted to Manuscript Central (http://embs-
ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/). In submitting indicate that the paper is
intended for the Special Issue on Affective and Pervasive Computing
for Healthcare.
Manuscript Due Nov. 1, 2008
First Round of Reviews Febr 1, 2009
Publication Date , 2009
Guest Editors:
Athanasios Vasilakos, Department of Computer and Telecommunications
Engineering
University of Western Macedonia,Greece,
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Christine Lisetti, School of Computing and Information Sciences
Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
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