Co-Health

Publications

General Public Articles

M. Alfano, How the internet can help us to stay healthy. RTE Brainstorm. 4 October 2019.

Scientific Publications

Alfano, M., Kellett, J., Lenzitti, B., Helfert, M. (2023). Intelligent Provision of Tailored, Easily Understood, and Trusted Health Information for Patient Empowerment. In Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - HEALTHINF, ISBN 978-989-758-631-6; ISSN 2184-4305, pages 384-391. DOI: 10.5220/0011694300003414
Alfano, M., Kellett, J., Lenzitti, B., Helfert, M. (2023). An Intelligent Empowering Agent (IEA) to Provide Easily Understood and Trusted Health Information Appropriate to the User Needs. In: Longo, L., O’Reilly, R. (eds) Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. AICS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1662. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26438-2_14l
Alfano, M., Kellett, J., Lenzitti, B., Helfert, M. (2022). Characteristics and Subjective Evaluation of an Intelligent Empowering Agent for Health Person Empowerment. Studies in health technology and informatics, 299, 177–182. IOS Press.
Alfano M., Kellett J., Lenzitti B., Helfert M. (2021) Proposed Use of a Conversational Agent for Patient Empowerment. In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 4: Scale-IT-up, ISBN 978-989-758-490-9, pages 817-824. DOI: 10.5220/0010414408170824
Alfano M., Lenzitti B., Taibi D., Helfert M. (2021) On-Line Retrieval of Health Information Based on Language Complexity, Information Customization and Information Quality. In: Ziefle M., Guldemond N., Maciaszek L.A. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health. ICT4AWE 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1387. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70807-8_1
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, D. Taibi, M. Helfert. (2020) Language Complexity in On-line Health Information Retrieval.. In: Ziefle M., Maciaszek L. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health. ICT4AWE 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1219. Springer, Cham
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, G. Lo Bosco, C. Muriana, T. Piazza, G. Vizzini. (2020) Design, Development and Validation of a System for Automatic Help to Medical Text Understanding. International Journal of Medical Informatics, Vol. 138, pp. 104109. Elsevier BV.
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, D. Taibi, M. Helfert (2020) Tailored Retrieval of Health Information from the Web for Facilitating Communication and Empowerment of Elderly People.In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - Volume 1: ICT4AWE, ISBN 978-989-758-420-6, pages 205-216. DOI: 10.5220/0009576202050216.
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, D. Taibi, M. Helfert. (2019) ULearn: Personalized Medical Learning on the Web for Patient Empowerment. In: Herzog M., Kubincová Z., Han P., Temperini M. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2019. ICWL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11841. Springer, Cham.
S. Togneri MacMahon, M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, G. Lo Bosco, F. McCaffery, D. Taibi, and M. Helfert. (2019) Improving Communication in Risk Management of Health Information Technology Systems by means of Medical Text Simplification. Proc. of 4th IEEE Workshop on ICT Solutions for e-Health (ICTS4eHealth 2019), 30 June 2019, Barcelona.
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, D. Taibi, M. Helfert. (2019) Provision of Tailored Health Information for Patient Empowerment: An Initial Study. Proc. of ACM International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech’19), 21-22 June 2019, Ruse.
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, D. Taibi, M. Helfert. (2019) Facilitating access to health web pages with different language complexity levels. Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health (ICT4AWE 2019), 2-4 May 2019, Heraklion-Crete.
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, G. Lo Bosco e D. Taibi. (2018) Development and Practical Use of a Medical Vocabulary-Thesaurus-Dictionary for Patient Empowerment. Proc. of ACM International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech’18), 13-14 September 2018, Ruse.
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, G. Lo Bosco e D. Taibi. (2016) A Framework for Opening Data and Creating Advanced Services in the Health and Social Fields. Proc. of ACM International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech’16), 23-24 June 2016, Palermo.
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, G. Lo Bosco. (2015) U-MedSearch: A Meta Search Engine of Medical Content for Different Users and Learning Needs. Proc. of International Conference on e-Learning (e-Learning’15), 11-12 September 2015, Berlin.
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, G. Lo Bosco. (2015) Finding the best web medical content for different learner categories. Proc. of 2nd International Conference on Medical Education Informatics (MEI 2015), 18-20 June 2015, Thessaloniki.
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, G. Lo Bosco, V. Perticone. (2015) An Automatic System for Helping Health Consumers to Understand Medical Texts. Proc. of HEALTHINF 2015, 12-15 January 2015, Lisbon.
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti, G. Lo Bosco, V. Perticone. (2014) Facilitating text understanding for e-learning users. Proc. of International Conference on e-Learning (e-Learning’14), 11-12 September 2014, Tenerife.
M. Alfano, B. Lenzitti e G. Lo Bosco. (2014) A web search methodology for health consumers. Proc. of ACM International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies (CompSysTech’14), 27-28 June 2014, Ruse.