SPECIAL ISSUE ON SUPPORTING E-HEALTH WITH MOBILE COMPUTING AND AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE

CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DUE DATE: March 1, 2010 SPECIAL ISSUE ON SUPPORTING E-HEALTH WITH MOBILE COMPUTING AND AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HANDHELD COMPUTING RESEARCH (IJHCR) Guest Editors: Michele Amoretti, Francesco Zanichelli, University of Parma, Italy INTRODUCTION: The concept of e-Health broadly refers to a range of services that are at the edge of healthcare and information technology. One prominent goal of e-Health is to enable ubiquitous, continuous and personalized access to healthcare services by patients, clinicians and all other actors. In this context, e-Health can take advantage of with Mobile Computing, i.e. the ability to use information and communication technology while moving, and Ambient Intelligence (AmI), which refers to digital environments that proactively support people in their daily lives. It is envisioned that future e-Health infrastructures will be fully distributed and pervasive, while supporting access to multiple services and enriched information, with multimodal interaction, regardless of user’s location and devices. OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished work related to the design, development, and validation of integrated mobile/AmI platforms and applications supporting e-Health. RECOMMENDED TOPICS: Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following: * Using mobile devices for healthcare information storage, update, and transmission * e-Health service sharing on mobile platforms * Continuous and multi-parametric monitoring of metabolic status using wearable devices * Synchronization between back-end sources and applications on mobile devices * Intelligent mobile multimedia services * Natural and multimodal interaction styles and user interfaces * Indoor/outdoor user localization * Assistive Devices for temporal and spatial orientation * Design and evaluation of patient and ambient-related sensors * Activity recognition and fall detection * Usability and acceptability issues * Semantic profiles of users, devices and services SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on SUPPORTING E-HEALTH WITH MOBILE COMPUTING AND AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE on or before March 1, 2010. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines submission.pdf All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. ABOUT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HANDHELD COMPUTING RESEARCH (IJHCR): The International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR) combines research from academicians and industrialists across the globe on advanced tools and technologies that perform wireless or mobile operations. Useful to scholars, researchers, and practitioners involved in related fields, this journal provides the latest developments in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, application, and standards of handheld computing. This journal is an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association www.igi-global.com/ijhcr Editor-in-Chief: Wen-Chen Hu, University of North Dakota, USA Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) PUBLISHER: The International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR) is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference”, “Business Science Reference”, and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com All submissions should be should be directed to the attention of: Michele Amoretti and Francesco Zanichelli Guest Editors International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR) E-mail: michele.amoretti@unipr.it and francesco.zanichelli@unipr.it