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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Double Issue on Sociotechnology and Pervasive Health</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD)</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Guest Editors:</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Barbara Rita Barricelli (Human Factors and Technology Laboratory,</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">and Priya Davda (The Bayswater Institute, United Kingdom)</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Description:</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Technologies for telehealth, telecare and telemedicine have existed for</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">over forty years and have often been presented as heralding a new era of</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">healthcare, one in which patients would not need to travel to see</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">specialists, people could be kept safe in their own homes and there</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">would be less need for expensive in-hospital treatment. Such societal</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">changes would especially regard the improvement the quality of life of</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">people affected by chronic diseases that could benefit by the</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">introduction of mobile technology as pervasive tools for continuous</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">monitoring of health status at a distance by health practitioners and</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">relatives.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Direct involvement of patients and health professionals (medical</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">doctors, nurses, and health care assistants) in the co-design process of</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">pervasive health technologies poses sociotechnical design challenges</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">because of the integration of the contribution of different expertise –</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">different stakeholders with diverse roles in the same domain of</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">application and also diverse degrees of IT literacy.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">This double issue of the International Journal of Sociotechnology and</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Knowledge Development welcomes papers which present research works aimed</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">at understanding the processes, forces and challenges of the</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">implementation of pervasive healthcare projects with a sociotechnical</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">approach.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Topics:</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Possible topics include (but are not limited to):</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Mobile health: technologies, methodologies, case studies</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Internet of Things applied to medical/health/wellness domains</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Telecare, telemedicine, telehealth</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Pervasive health for elderly, children or teenagers</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Self-care, home-care, residential care homes</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">- Co-design and implementation of scenarios with the involvement of</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">patients and healthcare professionals</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Deadline and guidelines:</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Prospective authors should note that only original and previously</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">unpublished articles will be considered. Manuscripts for this double</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">issue must be submit before March 16th through the online submission</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">system:</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspx">http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspx</a></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">The Journal's guidelines for manuscript submissions are available at:</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx">http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx</a></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">All papers will be forwarded to at least 3 members of the Editorial</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Review Board of the journal for double-blind, peer review. Final</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">decision regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">reviews received from the reviewers.</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">Contacts and links:</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">For questions, please contact the guest editors: Barbara Rita Barricelli</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">(<a href="mailto:barricelli@di.unimi.it">barricelli@di.unimi.it</a>) or Priya Davda (<a href="mailto:priya.davda.2008@live.rhul.ac.uk">priya.davda.2008@live.rhul.ac.uk</a>).</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;">IJSKD Web site:</div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-sociotechnology-knowledge-development/1108">http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-sociotechnology-knowledge-development/1108</a></div><div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium;"><br></div></div><div><div></div><br></div>
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