Artificial Intelligence for Participatory Health

Dear Colleagues,

Artificial intelligence (AI) provides people and professionals working in the field of participatory health informatics with an opportunity to derive robust insights from a variety of online sources.

There is an increasing interest in the field of AI in participatory health. Common applications include the secondary analysis of social media data: self-reported data including patient experiences with healthcare facilities, reports of adverse drug reactions, safety and efficacy concerns about over-the-counter medications, and other perspectives on medications. Other application areas include determining which online forum threads require moderator assistance, identifying users who are likely to drop out from a forum, extracting terms used in an online forum to learn its vocabulary, highlighting contextual information that is missing from online questions and answers, and paraphrasing technical medical terms for consumers.

With this Special Issue, we want to encourage researchers to submit their papers on applications of AI in the context of participatory healthcare. Contributions can include, but are not limited to, topics such as AI-related technologies to empower health consumers, technological advances in AI (e.g., prediction of diseases, outcomes etc., AI-based chatbots), and evaluating AI-based applications for participatory healthcare.

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Denecke
Dr. Elia Gabarron
Guest Editors

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• Artificial intelligence
• Participatory health
• Social media
• Wearables
• Mobile health
• Evaluation
• Patient empowerment
• Shared decision-making