Call for papers: Conversational agents for healthcare

Healthcare delivery is undergoing a rapid change from traditional processes towards the use of digital health interventions and personalised medicine. A particular solution to support the patient, given that caregivers may not always be available, are conversational agents, also known as relational agents, virtual humans or chatbots).

Conversational agents are computer programs that imitate the interaction with humans and provide guidance or coaching for patients on rule- or machine learning-based system. However, the question of how to sustainably implement, adopt and diffuse digital health solutions amplified with conversational agent functionalities is not sufficiently solved yet.

The external pageWorkshop on Scaling-Up Healthcare with Conversational Agents – Scale-IT-up 2021call_made seeks for submissions dealing with this question. The chairpersons welcome research and theory papers as well as case studies and best practice examples. The workshop is co-chaired by Prof. Tobias Kowatsch, principal investigator and head of the Mobile Health Interventions research module in the Future Health Technologies programme. 

Topics

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Innovative and implemented (telemedical) care models to mitigate the demographic impact on the health care system
• Implementation strategies or models for localizing and tailoring of digital health solutions
• Quality management in integrated healthcare networks and for digitally supported care models
• Dissemination and adoption strategies for digital innovations
• Transformation of traditional care processes by the use of information and communication technologies, e.g. successful intra- and interorganizational implementation of health information systems, electronic health records, or telemedicine/eHealth applications
• Health behavior change through the use of digital health interventions
• Digital Health at home – successfully putting individualized ambient assisted living solutions to use

Submission deadline: December 6, 2020

The workshop is part of the 1external page4th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies – BIOSTEC 2021call_made, 11 – 13 February 2021.