21.3023, Calls: Comp Ling, Disc Analysis/USA

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Date: 13-Jul-2010
From: Sara Rubinelli < sara.rubinelli at paranet.ch >
Subject: AI and Health Communication
 

	
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:32:51
From: Sara Rubinelli [sara.rubinelli at paranet.ch]
Subject: AI and Health Communication

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Full Title: AI and Health Communication 

Date: 21-Mar-2011 - 23-Mar-2011
Location: Stanford University, USA 
Contact Person: Sara Rubinelli
Meeting Email: sara.rubinelli at paranet.ch

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis 

Call Deadline: 08-Oct-2010 

Meeting Description:

There is a large and growing interest in the development of automated 
systems to provide health services to patients and consumers. In the last 
two decades, applications informed by research in health communication 
have been developed, e.g., for promoting healthy behavior and for 
managing chronic diseases. While the value that these types of applications 
can offer to the community in terms of cost, access, and convenience is 
clear, there are still major challenges facing design of effective health 
communication systems in terms of accessibility, trust, expert-to-lay 
knowledge translation, and persuasiveness. It is proposed that some of 
these challenges can be addressed by use of AI techniques in combination 
with empirically-based theoretical frameworks from the field of health 
communication and related areas. This symposium will bring together an 
interdisciplinary group of scholars to identify possible solutions. 

Call For Papers

AI and Health Communication
March 21-23, 2011 at Stanford University, California
AAAI 2011 Spring Symposium Series

AI researchers are invited to submit papers on their work related to health 
communication. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
-Communication interventions
-Games, conversational agents, or dialogue systems for healthy behavior 
promotion
-Intelligent interactive monitoring of patient's environment and needs
-Intelligent interfaces supporting access to healthcare 
-Patient-tailored decision support, explanation for informed consent, and 
retrieval and summarization of on-line healthcare information 
-Risk communication and visualization
-Tailored access to electronic medical records
-Tailoring health information for low-literacy, low-numeracy, or under-served 
audiences 
-Virtual healthcare counselors 
-Virtual patients for training healthcare professionals

Scholars from health communication and related disciplines (sociolinguistics,
pragmatics, discourse studies, etc.) are invited to submit papers on the 
following issues as they pertain to the symposium goals:
-Health literacy 
-Healthcare provider-consumer communication
-Risk communication, including written and visual formats
-Use of behavioral, persuasion, and argumentation theories for healthy
behavior promotion..

Papers will be published through the AAAI Spring Symposium Report Series. 
Participants presenting papers will be invited to submit expanded versions 
to a journal special issue on this topic.

Submission Information

Full papers (8 pages maximum) and short papers (4 pages maximum) on 
original work are invited. Submit papers in AAAI-style formatted PDF via 
EasyChair. 

Dates

October 8 - Submissions due  
November 5 - Acceptance/rejection notices sent with instructions for final 
copies of accepted papers 
January 21 - Final papers due 
February 4 - Invited participants registration deadline 
February 25 - Final (open) registration deadline 
Organizing Committee 

Co-chairs: Nancy Green (U. North Carolina Greensboro), Sara Rubinelli (U. 
Lucerne and Swiss Paraplegic Research), Donia Scott (U. Sussex)
 
Artificial Intelligence: Tim Bickmore (Northeastern U.), Richard Cox (U. 
Edinburgh), Chrysanne Dimarco (U. Waterloo), George Ferguson (U. 
Rochester), Floriana Grasso (U.  Liverpool), Eva Hudlicka (Psychometrix 
Associates), Patrick Kenny (Institute for Creative Technologies), Brian 
Magerko (Georgia Tech), Irene Mazzotta (Università degli Studi di Bari), 
Sergei Nirenburg (U. Maryland Baltimore), Paul Piwek (Open U.), Ehud 
Reiter (U. Aberdeen), Marjorie Skubic (U. Missouri)
 
Health Communication: David Brinberg (Virginia Tech), Frans van Eemeren 
(U. Amsterdam), Gunther Eysenbach (University Health Network), David 
Hitchcock (McMaster U.), Gary Kreps (George Mason U.), Rita Kukafka 
(Columbia U.), Kent Nakamoto (Virginia Tech), Linda Newhauser (U. 
California Berkeley), Daniel O'Keefe (Northwestern U.),  Paolo Paolini 
(Politecnico di Milano), Peter Schulz (U. Lugano)





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