-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] Call for Papers - Focus Theme 'Mobile Health' for Electronic Markets Datum: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:23:21 +0200 Von: Karen Heyden heyden@wifa.uni-leipzig.de An: wi@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
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Dear colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to our call for papers of Electronic Markets with a focus theme section on 'Mobile Health'. The submission deadline is October 1, 2010. The detailed CfP is copied below.
We cordially invite original research contributions to the focus theme or to general research on electronic markets and networked business from all potential authors. Furthermore, we invites well-known scholars in various areas of electronic markets and business networking to write a position paper on a salient issue of their choice. Please note that general research articles and position papers can be submitted anytime whereas focus theme articles have to be submitted by the deadline shown in the CfP.
Please feel free to forward this e-mail to interested colleagues.
If questions arise regarding the submission deadline or potential topics please contact the editorial office (editors@electronicmarkets.org mailto:editors@electronicmarkets.org).
With best regards,
Karen Heyden
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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business
Call for Papers
for Focus Theme Section on
'Mobile Health'
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Guest Editors:
* Doug Vogel (City University of Hong Kong)
* Dennis Viehland (Massey University, New Zealand)
* lmini Wickramasinghe (RMIT University, Australia)
* Joseph Mula (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
Theme:
Mobile devices (e.g., phones, PDAs, smartphones, wireless laptops) and wireless technologies (e.g., Bluetooth, RFID, NFC) are now commonplace and support a rapidly growing set of applications. The topic of Mobile Health (mHealth) seeks to capture the dynamics of using mobile devices for various aspects of health. This includes access to government resources as well as social networking. Interactions within as well as between organizations, institutions, individuals and interested parties are all relevant. Societal as well as personal impacts are in force and paramount to wide-ranging appeal. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
* Mobile solutions for delivery of superior healthcare
* Management of information and knowledge in healthcare systems using mobile devices and wireless technologies
* Designing systems and processes to incorporate mHealth solutions
* Emergency and disaster relief systems that utilize mHealth solutions
* Evaluation and assessment of mHealth solutions
* The role of regulations on the diffusion of e-knowledge in healthcare using mobile devices
* Mobile techniques and tools that facilitate e-knowledge initiatives
* Mobile user interface requirements analysis and standardisation in a healthcare context
* Business models for mobile services in mHealth
* Convenience versus security in mHealth systems
* Implications for social change from widespread deployment of mHealth
* mParticipation: mobile interaction with public health institutions
* Mobile knowledge worker innovations in healthcare
* Usability implications for design of mHealth systems
* Mobile service platforms for healthcare
* Healthcare in the home that utilizes mobile devices or wireless networks
* Promotion of good health and illness prevention by mobile solutions
* Adaptation of healthcare delivery and practice to enable and facilitate more mHealth initiatives
Additional topic suggestions are welcome. All papers will be peer reviewed and should conform to Electronic Markets publication standards.
Methodological and theoretical pluralism (e.g., empirical or theoretical work, qualitative research, design science, prototypes) is welcomed by the journal.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the focus theme section, please contact the Editor for the focus theme section.
Contact addresses:
isdoug@cityu.edu.hk
D.Viehland@massey.ac.nz
nilmini.work@gmail.com
Joseph.Mula@usq.edu.au
or editors@electronicmarkets.org
All papers should be original, not published elsewhere. Papers must be submitted via our electronic submission system. Instructions are available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/authors .
Important deadlines:
* Submission Deadline: October 1, 2010
* Feedback to authors: November 24, 2010
* Revision deadline: December 15, 2010
* Acceptance decision: January 19, 2011
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Electronic Markets - The International Journal on Networked Business ====================================================================
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Hubert Oesterle, University of St. Gallen
Executive Editor: Karen Heyden, University of Leipzig
Editorial Office:
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04109 Leipzig, Germany
Phone +49 341 9733600
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E-mail: editors@electronicmarkets.org mailto:editors@electronicmarkets.org
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Electronic Markets is published continuously online and quarterly in print by Springer. ISSN: 1019-6781 (Paper) 1422-8890 (Online).