Social Vulnerability to COVID-19

Introduction.- Technological Innovations in Response to COVID-19: Research Agenda Considering Marginalized Populations.- Adoption of Artificial Intelligence Technologies by Often Marginalized Populations.-  Mining the Health Information Needs of COVID-19 Patients based on Social Q&A Community.- Digital Divide Faced by the Elderly Under the COVID-19 Pandemic.- Difficulties of Vulnerable Groups in Accessing the Public Information Service during COVID-19 Pandemic in China.- Responding to COVID-19: Privacy Implications of the Rapid Adoption of ICTs.- Conclusion. 

Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany, State University of New York.  Her research interests include both human-computer interaction and information retrieval, with the focus on user interface design and evaluation and human information behavior.  She has published extensively in journals in information retrieval and human-computer interaction (including the JASIS&T, IP&M, Journal of Documentation, etc.), and conferences in computer science and information science (ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGCHI, ACM CHIIR, ASIS&T, etc.).  Dr. Yuan received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University at School of Communication and Information and Ph.D. from the Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her M.S. in Statistics from Rutgers University and M.E. and B.E. in Computer Application from Xi'an University of Science and Technology in China.  She serves as committee members and reviewers in various professional conferences such as ASIS&T, iConference, ACM SIGIR, ACM SIGCHI, ACM CHIIR, and ChineseCHI. She serves as Editorial Board member of Aslib Journal of Information Management (AJIM), and Board member of the International Chinese Association of Human-Computer Interaction. She is a member of the Special Interest Group on Information Needs, Seeking, and Use (SIGUSE) of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T),  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).   Dan Wu, Ph.D., is Professor in the School of Information Management at Wuhan University, Member of the Academic Committee of Wuhan University, and Director of the Human-Computer Interaction and User Behavior Research Center.  Her research areas include information organization and retrieval, user information behavior, human-computer