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Guest Editorial
consumer healthcare devices. Individual consumer's
health can be analyzed so that preventive
measures can be taken.
In the second paper [A2], Nayak et al. address
the challenges concerning user and machine
interaction in smart healthcare systems that are
optimized for consumer health monitoring and
remote diagnostics that is particularly suited for
implementing telemedicine services across a
smart city. The proposed solution based on an inearest
neighbor algorithm analyzes affective
and thermal facial signatures through detection
and tracking of a user's facial regions of interest
(ROIs) for implementation in portable consumer
electronics products.
In the third paper [A3], Nayak et al. address
the very important topic of smart cities' environmental
health and safety through the design
and implementation of consumer technology
solution in background radiation safety assessment.
Nonionizing radiation (NIR) is an important
safety-related issue to be addressed in
consumer electronics devices. The evaluation
of Non-ionizing Radiation Safety Index (NRSDex)
is proposed as a unified quantitative NIR safety
mechanism that extends the coverage of the
IEEE P2668 standard through construction of an
Internet of Things (IoT) index. The effects of
NIR on human bodies are studied to provide
useful insights into designing consumer healthcare
devices by providing a global unified quantitative
indicator.
Finally, in the fourth paper [A4], Dong et al.
propose a novel hierarchical attention network
circuit design with organic memristor that is particularly
suited for implementation in consumer
healthcare devices. The presented mental health
monitoring system in wearable form aims to provide
an affordable solution for deployment in a
smart city environment.
The four papers featured cover important
technical advances in various implementation
methodologies in consumer healthcare technology
for integration in a smart city context. The
guest editors wish to thank all the contributing
authors for the tremendous work on consumer
healthcare technology advances; the reviewers
for their help on providing valuable feedback
that has led to substantial improvement on the
presentation of these papers, as well as the
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Editor-in-Chief for his support on the preparation
of this Special Section.
APPENDIX:RELATED ARTICLES
[A1] Z. Yu, K. Wang, Z. Wan, S. Xie, and Z. Lv,
" FMCPNN in digital twins smart healthcare, "
IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag.,to be
published, doi: 10.1109/MCE.2022.3184441.
[A2] S. Nayak, A. Routray, M. Sarma, and S.
Uttarkabat, " GNN based embedded framework
for consumer affect recognition
using thermal facial ROIs, " IEEE Consum.
Electron. Mag., to be published, doi:
10.1109/MCE.2022.3153748.
[A3] H. Wang, K. F. Tsang, W. Yang, Y. Liu, C. H.
Koo, andW. H.Wan, " A unified quantitative
index to assess non-ionizing radiation safety, "
IEEEConsum. Electron. Mag.,tobe published,
doi: 10.1109/MCE.2022.3178200.
[A4] Z. Dong, X. Ji, C. S. Lai, D. Qi, G. Zhou, and L.
L. Lai, " Memristor-based hierarchical attention
network for multimodal affective computing
in mental health monitoring, " IEEE
Consum. Electron. Mag.,tobe published,
doi: 10.1109/MCE.2022.3159350.
Bernard Fong is currently a professor and international
student advisor with Providence University,
Taichung, Taiwan. Fong received the Ph.D. degree in
health information systems from the University of New
South Wales, Sydney NSW, Australia, in 2005. He is a
member of the Consumer Technology Society and a
senior member of IEEE. He currently serves as the
managing editor of the IEEE Smart Cities Newsletter
and Chair of the System Biology and Biomedical Systems
Technical Committee of the IEEE Systems Council.
Contact him at bfong@ieee.org.
Haesik Kim is a senior scientist of 5G and Beyond
Network Team in VTT Technical Research Centre of
Finland, Espoo, Finland. He is an author of the books
Wireless Communications Systems Design (Wiley,
2015) and Design and Optimization for 5G Wireless
Communications (Wiley - IEEE, 2020). Kim received
the Ph.D. degree in communication systems from
Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K., in 2009. He is
an associate technical editor of IEEECommunications
Magazine. He was a Vice-Chair of 5G IA Steering
Board. He was a conference co-chair, session chair,
and TPC member of major IEEE international journals
and conferences. Contact him at kim.haesik@vtt.fi.
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