This special issue aims to investigate the smart living in healthcare applications and innovations. The smart living could be realized and intended to be a large-scale living lab experiment for many novel technologies and smart-living services, involving many people with these services, and then transforming these services and enriched experience to enabling relevant eco-systems. Thus, the smart living concepts could collaborate and share the key functions of entire healthcare value chain. However, there are still many challenging problems in improving the design, platform, model and service of smart living technologies employing healthcare concepts and techniques, and new problems are also emerging with new applications. Therefore, the issue will explore how individuals or hospitals can gain benefits by using healthcare innovations in real-world settings through exploitation of smart living technologies. It will also encourage research that uses empirical studies to present the fundamental theory, techniques, applications and practical experiences in the context of designing, implementing or evaluating the Living Labs that take advantage of advances in healthcare domain. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:


• Cloud healthcare
• Connected healthcare
• Interactive healthcare
• Design, implementation and evaluation of smart applications
• Ambient intelligence
• Intelligent healthcare
• Virtual healthcare




Prospective authors are invited to submit research contributions representing original and previously unpublished work. Authors should follow the JMBE manuscript format as described in the Information for Authors. An electronic file should be sent to the guest editor or submitted online at SUBMISSIONS. Submitted paper will be carefully reviewed. Deadline for paper submission is on August 15, 2012. Author will be notified of final decision by October 31, 2012.

Guest Editors:

Professor Mu-Yen Chen
Professor Abdelhamid Bouchachia
Professor Koichi Ogasawara

Important Dates:

Submission due: August 15th, 2012
Acceptance Notice: October 31st, 2012
Final Manuscript: January 31st, 2013
Publication Date: June, 2013


Online Submission

After registration, follow the submission procedure on “SUBMISSIONS”. In “Journal Section”, please choose “Special Issue on Smart Living in Healthcare and Innovations”.