[iva] CfP: JMIR Mental Health Theme Issue: Affective Computing for Mental Well-Being

[Iulia Lefter]

**Apologies for multiple postings**

**Online version: https://mental.jmir.org/announcements/424**


Call for Papers: JMIR Mental Health Theme Issue: Affective Computing for Mental Well-Being


JMIR Mental Health, 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 Computing for Mental Well-being”.


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.


This theme issue invites original contributions, including but not limited to:


  *   Data collection, archiving and retrieval in the context of mental health

  *   Multimodal recognition of stress, negative affect, sleep, social isolation, or other mental health-related symptoms

  *   Automatic behaviour and affect coding

  *   Affective modelling

  *   Analysis of interactions with patients, including synchrony and alliance

  *   NLP for medical texts analysis

  *   Multimodal and multi-temporal information fusion in the context of mental health

  *   Chatbots, virtual humans, XR, serious games, etc. for mental health support

  *   User-centric design for mental health applications

  *   Customization, personalisation and adaptation

  *   User studies on affective computing technology for mental health

  *   Therapeutic relationship and artificial empathy

  *   Social and ethical issues regarding the use of affective technologies for mental health support, such as: privacy, trust and bias.



Submission Guidelines:

All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process, and accepted articles will be published as part of a special issue on the “Affective Computing for Mental Well-being<https://mental.jmir.org/announcements/424>”.


Submission Deadline: April 15, 2024.


Submissions not reviewed or accepted for publication in this JMIR Mental Health 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 JMIR AI<https://ai.jmir.org/> or JMIR Neurotechnology<https://neuro.jmir.org/>. Selected submissions also may be in scope for JMIR Serious Games<https://games.jmir.org/>.


Early-stage formative work that informs the design of future interventions or research may better fit the scope for JMIR Formative Research<https://formative.jmir.org/>. Authors are encouraged to submit study protocols or grant proposals to JMIR Research Protocols<https://www.researchprotocols.org/> before data acquisition to preregister the study (Registered Reports—subsequent acceptance in one of the JMIR Publications journals is then guaranteed).


All articles submitted to this theme issue will be shared and published rapidly through the following mechanisms:

  *   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.

  *   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.

Article processing fees

As an open access journal, JMIR Mental Health will charge an Article Processing Fee (APF). Please find more information on the article processing fees here<https://mental.jmir.org/about-journal/article-processing-fees>.

Guest Editors


Iulia Lefter, PhD, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology

Zakia Hammal, PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

David D Luxton, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Washington

Theodora Chaspari, PhD, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University

Alice Baird, PhD, Hume AI

Albert Ali Salah, PhD, Professor, Utrecht University and Bogazici University

Marwa Mahmoud, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Glasgow


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