Dear Colleagues,
The IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Journal (Q1 - IF 9.6) is
pleased to announce the Special Issue entitled "Affective Impact of
Next-Generation Intelligent Health Systems”.
The submission deadline is April 30, 2025 and papers may be submitted
immediately or at any point until 30 April 2025, as papers will be
published on an ongoing basis. For more information on this Special
Issue and submission guidelines, please visit the following page:
https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/ta/tac-next-generation-health
Best Regards
Giovanna Sannino
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AFFECTIVE COMPUTING
IEEE - Q1 Journal - Impact Factor: 9.6
Special Issue on the Affective Impact of
Next-Generation Intelligent Health Systems
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Nowadays, all over the world, the number of ICT investments in health
and well-being is rapidly increasing. In this context, there is a
growing interest in telemedicine that allows the provisioning of various
kinds of health-related services and applications over the Internet. The
benefit of telemedicine is twofold: on the one hand, it pushes down
clinical costs and on the other hand, it improves the quality of life of
both patients and their families. Telemedicine solutions are typically
aimed at tele-nursing, tele-rehabilitation, tele-dialog,
tele-monitoring, tele-analysis, tele-pharmacy, tele-trauma care,
tele-psychiatry, tele-radiology, tele-pathology, tele-dermatology,
tele-dentistry, tele-audiology, tele-ophthalmology, etc. In recent years
the rapid advent and evolution of emerging ICT technologies (such as the
Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud/Edge/Fog computing, Artificial
Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, etc.) are revolutionizing telemedicine.
In this context, the way of interaction between humans including
patients and medical personnel and emerging eHealth applications is
rapidly and deeply changing. Specifically, there are many affective
factors that condition the interaction between humans and the eHealth
technology, on how affective sensing and simulation techniques can
inform our understanding of human affective processes, and on the
design, implementation and evaluation of systems that carefully consider
affecting among the factors that influence their usability.
This special issue focuses on all the affecting computing aspects
originated by emerging tele-healthcare solutions. Topics of interest
include (but are not limited to):
• Emerging architectures for health influencing both physicians’
and patients’ behaviors and emotions;
• Computer-aided clinical diagnosis and therapy changing the
traditional clinical approach;
• Networked applications for health changing the way of
approaching traditional medicine;
• Algorithms for decision support and therapy improvement
changing the classical approach of the medical personnel;
• AI applications for health influencing the emotional state of
people;
• Advanced security techniques for health changing the way of
approaching the hospital information systems;
• Responsible and trustworthy AI for health systems, including
security, fairness, explainability, etc;
• Ethics around the algorithmic design and deployment of health
technologies.
Guest Editors
Theodora Chaspari, University of Colorado Boulder, USA,
theodora.chasp...@colorado.edu
Giovanna Sannino, ICAR – CNR Italy, giovanna.sann...@icar.cnr.it
Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy, acele...@unime.it
Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR – CNR, Italy, ivanoe.defa...@icar.cnr.it
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK, h...@essex.ac.uk
Key Dates
Manuscript submission due: April 30, 2025
Publication date: Oct-Dec 2025
For all information:
https://www.computer.org/digital-library/journals/ta/tac-next-generation-health
