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Special Session on
Analyzing the E-health Acceptance in Developing Countries
 - EHA 2019

2 - 4 May, 2019 - Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Within the 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health - ICT4AWE 2019


CHAIR

Hamed Taherdoost
University Canada West, Vancouver
Canada

 
Brief Bio
Hamed Taherdoost is an award-winning leader and research and development professional. He is the Founder of Hamta Group | Hamta Business Solution and Associate Professor at University Canada West. He has over 20 years of experience in both industry and academic sectors. He has worked at international companies from Cyprus, the UK, Malta, Iran, Malaysia, and Canada and has been highly involved in development of several projects in different industries, healthcare, transportation, residential, oil and gas and IT. Apart from his experience in industry, he also has some achievements in academia. He has been a university lecturer in three different parts of the world, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and North America. His academic experience started from 2009, as a lecturer in AU and PNU. He is Adjunct Professor at Westcliff University and Canadian College. Beside on lectureship positions, he was a researcher at IAU for over 8 years. Most recently, he was Team Leader, R&D Manager, Technical R&D Consultant, and Academic Program Manager of Research Club and Hamta Academy, Malaysia, Mentor at Publons Academy, and is Advisory Board of Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK, and Scientific Board of NASS, Singapore, and the Mentor at Futurpreneur Canada, and Vancouver Island University CETP program. He has continued his path in teaching concentrating on research and development for over 13 years teaching to undergraduate students, postgraduates, and executive staff in different countries. He has also developed many R&D teams in different businesses inspiring project team members from various educational backgrounds to play effective roles in R&D teams. He has developed his customized approaches in teaching research methodology and shared his viewpoints in research methods area in more than 30 open-access publications over years. Besides, he has organized and chaired numerous workshops, conferences, and conference sessions respectively, and has delivered speeches as chief guest and keynote speaker. Moreover, he is the editorial, reviewer, and advisory board member of some authentic peer-reviewed journals publishing with Taylor & Francis, Springer, Emerald, Elsevier, MDPI, EAI, & IGI Publishing, and Inderscience. Hamed has been an active multidisciplinary researcher and R&D specialist involved in several academic and industrial research projects. He has been working with researchers from various disciplines and has been actively engaged in different research studies. His views on science and technology have been published in top-ranked scientific publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, Emerald, IEEE, IGI Global, Inderscience, Taylor and Francis and Dr. Hamed has published over 170 scientific articles in authentic peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings (h-index = 34; i10-index = 65; over 8800 citations on Google Scholar; over 2.6 million reads and 4521 citations on ResearchGate; 123,839 downloads on SSRN), 12 book chapters as well as 9 books in the field of technology and research methodology. He was the PeerJ Award winner and the winner of Business Excellence Award for business leadership, innovation and creativity, and results achieved, and was also selected as a qualified recipient of the Promising Startups in Asia at Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability Awards. He was the finalist for the Innovation in Teaching of Research Methodology Excellence Awards and was nominated as the finalists in Southeast Asian Startup Awards by Global Startup Awards, nominated for ACE (Always Chase Excellence) Awards at UCW, and awarded the Outstanding Editorial Board Member from Bilingual Publishing Co. He was ranked as 9th top SSRN Business Authors among world’s most-cited researchers till end of July 2022, awarded the most read contributions from Canada by ResearchGate, July and October 2021. His research achievements also include winning several best paper awards, outstanding reviewer awards and best presentation awards like MLIS 2021 & 2022. He has been listed on the Stanford-Elsevier list of World’s top 2% of scientist by August 2021 and 2022. He is a Certified Cyber Security Professional and Certified Graduate Technologist. He is senior member of IEEE, IAEEEE, IASED, IEDRC & HKSRA, Fellow Member of ISAC, WGM of IFIP TC11 - Assurance and Information Security Management, and member of CSIAC, ACT-IAC, and AASHE. Currently, he is involved in several multidisciplinary research projects, including studying innovation in information technology, blockchain and cybersecurity, and technology acceptance.

SCOPE

It is significant to note that user acceptance is vital for the development of any new technology and e-health as well. Businesses have moved or planning to move to the internet-based platform to increase personnel efficiency, marketing improvement, cost reduction and increase profitability. Therefore, recognition the needs and acceptance of individuals is the beginning stage of any businesses and this understanding would be helpful to find the way of future development of e-health, thus it is important to understand the factors that drive users’ intention toward the e-health. 

Topics

  • IT Acceptance Models Acceptance of e-health services
  • Assessment of Acceptance/Adoption models Cultural Evaluation of e-health
  • Acceptance e-health and economic growth Factors affecting e-health adoption
  • Major barriers and facilitators for e-health
  • Acceptance Case studies in developing countries

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: March 6, 2019 (expired)
Authors Notification: March 15, 2019 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2019 (expired)

SPECIAL SESSION PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ali Hassan, UM, Malaysia
Alaeddin Kalantari, Asanware Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
Mitra Madanchian, ., Malaysia

PAPER SUBMISSION

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: Paper Templates
Please also check the Guidelines.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system using the appropriated button on this page.

PUBLICATIONS

After thorough reviewing by the special session program committee, all accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on digital support - and submitted for indexation by DBLP, Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index, EI, Microsoft Academic, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library

SECRETARIAT CONTACTS

ICT4AWE Special Sessions - EHA 2019
e-mail: ict4ageingwell.secretariat@insticc.org
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