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Marco Alfano

Senior Research Fellow

Maynooth University

Contact Details

Office: IVI

Tel: +353834017088

Dr. Marco Alfano is a Senior Researcher at the Innovation Value Institute (IVI), Maynooth University, and leader of the IVI Digital Health research cluster. He is also affiliated with Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software, and receives SFI funding for his research. He is currently working on responsible use of AI in health and well-being by facilitating person/patient empowerment and seamless communication within the healthcare system (http://cohealth.ivi.ie/). His research interests include Responsible AI, Digital Health Transformation, Patient Empowerment, Human-machine communication, Data analytics, Semantic Web, Smart cities, Cybersecurity, and Open Data/Big Data. He has authored more than fifty peer reviewed articles for journals, books, and conferences. He has participated in several European projects and has received grants from international bodies, such as the European Union (under the FP7 and H2020 framework programs), and national bodies, such as Science Foundation Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, and the National Research Council of Italy.

Publications

2022

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.

2021

Alfano M, Lenzitti B, Taibi D, Helfert M. 2021. On-Line Retrieval of Health Information Based on Language Complexity, Information Customization and Information Quality . Communications in Computer and Information Science. 1387

Alfano M, Kellett J, Lenzitti B, Helfert M. 2021. Proposed Use of a Conversational Agent for Patient Empowerment. 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies .

Alfano M, Lenziti B, Taibi D, Helfert M. 2021. On-Line Retrieval of Health Information Based on Language Complexity, Information Customization and Information Quality. :1-20.

2020

Alfano M, Lenzitti B, Bosco] G[Lo, Muriana C, Piazza T, Vizzini G. 2020. Design, development and validation of a system for automatic help to medical text understanding. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 138:104109.

Alfano M, Lenzitti B, Taibi D, Helfert M. 2020. Tailored Retrieval of Health Information from the Web for Facilitating Communication and Empowerment of Elderly People . 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health.

Alfano M, Lenzitti B, Taibi D, Helfert M. 2020. Language Complexity in On-line Health Information Retrieval. Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health.

2019

Alfano M, Lenzitti B, Taibi D, Helfert M. 2019. Facilitating Access to Health Web Pages with Different Language Complexity Levels . International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health (ICT4AWE) 2019 .

Alfano M, Lenzitti B, Taibi D, Helfert M. 2019. Provision of Tailored Health Information for Patient Empowerment: An Initial Study . 20th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies.

MacMahon STogneri, Alfano M, Lenzitti B, Bosco GLo, McCaffery F, Taibi D, Helfert M. 2019. Improving Communication in Risk Management of Health Information Technology Systems by means of Medical Text Simplification. ICTS4eHealth 2019 - Part of ISCC 2019 .