Special Session on Affective Computing in Medicine and Health (AffectMed2010)

(collocated with International Conference on Medical Biometrics (ICMB) 2010, Hong Kong, 28-30.June)

 

Deadline Extended !!! New Deadline: March 5 2010

 

Call for Papers

In the past decade, studies 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. Objectives are among others

  • 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.

 

The aim of the workshop is to encourage researchers from the affective computing to present novel issues and techniques related to affective computing in health and medicine. This workshop is intended to address different aspects related to the problems of accessing, exchanging, processing, filtering and making applications that bring affective computing and health together. The workshop will serve as a forum for the confluence of new and multidisciplinary ideas that will help to drive research in the areas of affective computing. Following this direction, we invite researchers and practioners from the area of affective computing to participate in this special session on affective computing in medicine and health.

 

Topics

The topics for this special session include, but are not limited to:

  • Affective Computing in Tele-home Health
  • Affective signal processing techniques in health
  • Sensors, mobile devices and technologies for patient monitoring of affect-related events
  • Socially intelligent communication robots in health care
  • Context-awareness user modelling for healthcare
  • Emotionally intelligent dialog systems in health care

 

Paper Submission

Papers should be no more than 8 pages in IEEE standard format. Paper should be submitted electronically in PDF format. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE. Prospective authors are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Selected papers of the workshop will be published in a special issue of a journal (e.g., IEEE Trans. SMC-A).

 

The deadline for paper submission is 5th March 2010.

Electronic paper submission through Easychair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=affectmed10)  is required. We cannot accept submissions by e-mail or fax. For questions please contact: affectmed10[at]easychair.org

 

Contact

Inquiry of this special session can be sent to:

Special Session Chairs

Associate Prof. Rajiv Khosla

Dr. Kerstin Denecke

Research Centre for Computers, Communication and Social Innovation

La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria - 3086, Australia

Email: r.khosla[AT]latrobe.edu.au and denecke[AT]L3S.de

 

We thank SSPNet http://sspnet.eu/ for publishing this call.