Cobots to Chatbots: Intelligent Bots in Healthcare Transformation
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensors and Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 340
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Interests: data analytics; artificial intelligence (AI); automation and the ethics of AI; data and machines
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Dear Colleagues,
The digital transformation of healthcare is driven by the increasing burden of disease, evolving needs of personalized care, and the push towards value-based healthcare models. In this landscape of healthcare transformation, the disciplines of artificial intelligence and automation are primary contributors towards effective, efficient and reliable technical systems that are intelligent and autonomous. These systems are typically known as “intelligent bots”; they are both physical and virtual, and range across a diversity of manifestations such robotic surgery, mobile robot, service robots, and collaborative robots (cobots) in the physical domain, and conversational agents (chatbots), process automation bots, and personal smartphone assistants in the virtual domain. For instance, the precision operations of robotic surgery and the commercial success of Siri, Alexa, Google, and Cortana have accelerated the design, development, and adoption of intelligent bots in the healthcare transformation. However, there are critical gaps and numerous challenges to be addressed, such as the service performance of cobots, the anomaly-detection capabilities of mobile robots, the human-centric psychosocial support of chatbots, and the information fusion abilities of process automation bots. It is imperative that original research is undertaken to address these challenges in response to the expanding need for intelligent bots in healthcare transformation.
This Special Issue invites original research articles on the design, development, evaluation and deployment of intelligent bots, both virtual and physical, in healthcare transformation. This Special Issue will focus on (but not be limited to) the following topics:
- Theoretical innovations of intelligent bots in healthcare transformation;
- Innovative practices of intelligent bots in healthcare transformation;
- Sensors and vision of intelligent bots in healthcare transformation;
- Applications and empirical studies of intelligent bots in healthcare;
- Formal methods for intelligent bot design and development;
- Evaluation frameworks for intelligent bots in healthcare transformation;
- Intelligent bots in diverse healthcare settings (hospital, home, telehealth).
Dr. Daswin De Silva
Dr. Tamra Ranasinghe
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intelligent bots
- artificial intelligence
- automation
- healthcare transformation
- digital health
- personalized healthcare
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