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<p><span style="color: rgb(117, 123, 128); font-size: 12pt;">**Apologies for multiple postings**</span><br>
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<p><span style="background-color:transparent; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:15pt">Call for Papers: JMIR Mental Health Theme Issue: Affective Computing for Mental Well-Being </span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic">JMIR Mental Health,
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">a premier SCIE/PubMed/Scopus-indexed, peer-reviewed journal with a unique focus on digital mental health, is inviting submissions to a new theme issue titled “Affective
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">Affective computing has the potential to support several important processes in the quest of enhancing and maintaining mental well-being. Such techniques can be used to
 augment traditional questionnaire-based diagnosis methods or enhance self-awareness by tracking user states and behaviour with multimodal cues associated with verbal and non-verbal communication, physiology, and physical activities. There are great opportunities
 to develop personalised interventions based on individuals' affective states and their unique needs and preferences. Extended Reality (XR) solutions and mHealth apps can also be enhanced by becoming more responsive and adaptive. Further, such technology can
 contribute to health equity by making mental health services more accessible, especially to those facing barriers such as geographic distance, lack of resources, or the stigma associated with seeking care. However, the complex nature of mental well-being requires
 that this challenge is approached from various angles and multiple disciplines, and as advances in AC and AI in mental health give rise to important ethical concerns, it is vital that these are addressed. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">This theme issue invites original contributions, including but not limited to:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Data collection, archiving and retrieval in the context of mental health</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Multimodal recognition of stress, negative affect, sleep, social isolation, or other mental health-related symptoms</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Automatic behaviour and affect coding </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Affective modelling</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Analysis of interactions with patients, including synchrony and alliance</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">NLP for medical texts analysis</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Multimodal and multi-temporal information fusion in the context of mental health</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Chatbots, virtual humans, XR, serious games, etc. for mental health support</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">User-centric design for mental health applications</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Customization, personalisation and adaptation</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">User studies on affective computing technology for mental health</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Therapeutic relationship and artificial empathy</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Social and ethical issues regarding the use of affective technologies for mental health support, such as: privacy, trust and bias.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif">All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process, and accepted articles will be published as part of a special issue on the “</span><a href="https://mental.jmir.org/announcements/424" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204)">Affective
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700">Submission Deadline</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">: April 15, 2024.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">Submissions not reviewed or accepted for publication in this
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic">JMIR Mental Health
</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">theme issue may be offered cascading peer review or transfer to other JMIR Publications journals, according to standard publisher policies. For example, highly technical
 papers may be transferred or submitted to </span><a href="https://ai.jmir.org/" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-style:italic">JMIR AI</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">
 or </span><a href="https://neuro.jmir.org/" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-style:italic">JMIR Neurotechnology</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">.
 Selected submissions also may be in scope for </span><a href="https://games.jmir.org/" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-style:italic">JMIR Serious Games</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent; font-style:italic">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">Early-stage formative work that informs the design of future interventions or research may better fit the scope for
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 Authors are encouraged to submit study protocols or grant proposals to </span><a href="https://www.researchprotocols.org/" style=""><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-style:italic">JMIR
 Research Protocols</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent"> before data acquisition to preregister the study (Registered Reports—subsequent acceptance in one of the JMIR Publications journals is then
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">All articles submitted to this theme issue will be shared and published rapidly through the following mechanisms:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">All peer-reviewed articles in this theme issue will be immediately and permanently made open access. This is the standard for all titles within the JMIR Publications portfolio.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; background-color:transparent">Articles can be made immediately available in JMIR Preprints (with a DOI) after submission if authors select the preprint option at submission to enable this service.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; background-color:transparent">As an open access journal, JMIR Mental Health will charge an Article Processing Fee (APF). Please find more information on the article processing fees
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