AI, Emotion, and Health: Applying Algorithmic Intelligence to Improve Well-Being
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 72
Special Issue Editor
Interests: emotional calculation; affective computing; natural language processing
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Dear Colleagues,
A pivotal challenge in modern medicine is harnessing artificial intelligence to advance precision healthcare and enable more personalized, data-driven interventions. Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI and affective computing, provides novel tools to address this challenge through advanced interactive systems capable of interpreting human emotions and empathy. This Special Issue focuses on AI-driven approaches that translate emotional understanding into practical tools for diagnosis, monitoring, and intervention to improve human well-being.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, which focuses on cutting-edge research at the intersection of affective computing, AI-based emotion understanding, and human-centered healthcare technologies.
This Special Issue aims to explore how artificial intelligence can decode human emotions and empathy to advance well-being and improve health outcomes. We particularly encourage submissions that demonstrate how intelligent systems and human–AI interaction can address concrete healthcare challenges in real-world clinical settings.
The goal is to present innovative AI approaches that analyze, model, or predict emotional and empathetic responses, bridging the gap between computational intelligence and human mental processes. Studies that propose practical applications, such as AI-based diagnostic systems, emotion-aware agents, or multimodal sensing for non-contact health monitoring, are especially welcome.
The submission of original research articles and reviews to this Special Issue is welcomed. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Using AI and multimodal data for emotion and empathy recognition to improve health outcomes;
- Generative AI for mental health and affective interaction;
- Predictive modeling of psychological or cognitive conditions for early intervention;
- Non-contact and non-invasive sensing technologies for emotional and health assessment;
- Human–AI empathy and conversational systems for healthcare;
- Explainable and ethical AI for clinical emotion recognition and decision support;
- Cross-disciplinary studies bridging AI, psychology, and biomedical engineering to develop integrated care solutions;
- Applications of affective computing in clinical and wellness contexts.
We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions.
Dr. Kazuyuki Matsumoto
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- affective computing for healthcare
- AI-based mental health assessment
- emotion and empathy recognition systems
- human–AI interaction in healthcare
- multimodal physiological signal analysis
- generative AI for emotional understanding
- non-contact health monitoring technologies
- emotion-aware intelligent systems
- cognitive and affective state estimation
- AI-driven personalized well-being support
- explainable affective AI in medicine
- psychophysiological sensing and modeling
- human-centered healthcare technologies
- machine learning for emotional health
- wearable and ambient emotion sensing
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