CFP: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Journal (Q1 - IF 9.6)

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.chaspari@colorado.edu
Giovanna Sannino, ICAR – CNR Italy, giovanna.sannino@icar.cnr.it
Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy, acelesti@unime.it
Ivanoe De Falco, ICAR – CNR, Italy, ivanoe.defalco@icar.cnr.it
Hani Hagras, University of Essex, UK, hani@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

Received on Thursday, 27 March 2025 10:26:31 UTC