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Special Issue on Personalization in e-Health
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction:
The Journal of Personalization Research
(An international journal published by Springer Verlag)
Guest editors: Floriana Grasso and Cecile Paris
http://www.ict.csiro.au/Staff/Cecile.Paris/umuai-e-Health/
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Research articles are invited for a special issue of the UMUAI Journal on Personalisation for e-Health. This issue is in memory of and dedicated to Fiorella de Rosis and Alison Cawsey, who made important contributions to this field and both died in the past year (see (http://www.di.uniba.it/intint/people/fior.html http://www.springerlink.com/content/j3431532u5154449/ http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~alison/ and
http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/cs/obituary.htm)
The past years have witnessed unprecedented levels of investment in the e-Health sector, both in terms of research effort and funding, as well as great public interest in this area. e-Health can be broadly defined as the application of Information Technologies to improve the access, efficiency, effectiveness and quality of any processes related to health care, clinical and business alike. In the e-Health vision, intelligent systems would, for example, enable:
. citizens to take more control of their well-being, by accessing personalised and qualified health information (both medical and pedagogical), accessing appropriate medical care from their homes, or supporting each other in social networks;
. health professionals to manage their activity more efficiently, by receiving relevant and timely information and updates; and
. teams of health professionals to work together more effectively, coordinating their activities, sharing their knowledge about the patients they are collectively taking care of, and ensuring the best coordinated care is provided.
This special issue aims at attracting work from both the computational and the medical and public health perspectives, presenting theoretical results, case studies for best practices or new technologies (e.g., Web 2.0 technologies, technologies for affective computing) for personalisation in the health domain.
A non-exhaustive list of issues of interest is:
. Adaptive and personalised e-Health information systems (including adaptive content, search and interface);
. Tailored health education and advice (written and online);
. The use of affective interfaces in e-Health;
. Online communities and social networks in health;
. Promoting trust and compliance to health advice;
. Personalised assistance, including for citizens with special needs (e.g. disabled and elderly people);
. Personalisation in chronic care (e.g., asthma or diabetes management) as opposed to acute care (e.g., ICU setting);
. Privacy issues for health related user models;
. Personalisation based both on biometric or genomic factors and clinical information;
. Tailored decision support (for patients and practitioners);
. Supporting the implementation of guidelines and protocols in healthcare;
. Models of user learning, knowledge, attitude and behaviour change (including compliance);
. Patient/citizen models;
. Ontologies for user models for tailored health care delivery;
. Use of ubiquitous and mobile applications for the personalisation of e-Health;
. Methods for evaluating user satisfaction with eHealth systems (weblog analysis, tracking users, quantitative and qualitative methods); and
. Reports of evaluation studies of personalised e-Health systems.
Personalisation for e-Health is multidisciplinary. We thus welcome contributions from diverse perspectives, such as human factors, mobile computing, natural language processing, cognitive modelling, as well as public health and medical informatics. Papers should present reports on completed work that has not been published elsewhere.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Submissions to the special issue should follow the UMUAI formatting guidelines and submission instructions available at http://www.umuai.org/paper_submission.html
Each submission should note that it is intended for the special issue on Personalisation for e-Health.
Potential authors are asked to notify by email the guest editors as soon as possible of their intent to submit an article (see below for the relevant contact information).
Sometime thereafter, but no later than a month prior to the submission deadline, they should submit a tentative title and a one-page abstract to allow for feedback and the formation of a reviewer panel. UMUAI is an archival journal that publishes mature and substantiated research results on the dynamic adaptation of computer systems to their human users, and the role that a model of the system about the user plays in this context. Many articles in UMUAI are quite comprehensive and describe the results of several years of work. Consequently, UMUAI gives "unlimited" space to authors (so long as what they write is important). Authors whose paper exceeds 40 pages in journal format (including illustrations and references) are however requested to supply a short justification upon submission that explains why a briefer discussion of their research results would not be advisable.
REVIEW PROCESS
Submissions will undergo the normal review process, and will be reviewed by three established researchers selected from a panel of reviewers formed for the special issue.
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
Deadline for Submission of title and abstract: November 1st, 2009
Deadline for Paper Submissions: December 1st, 2009
Notification to authors: March 1st, 2009
Guest Editors
Floriana Grasso, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Liverpool, UK.
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http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~floriana/
Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia.
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http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/Cecile.Paris
If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask the guest editors
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Dr Cécile Paris
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CSIRO ICT Centre
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