Introduction Increasing demand for mental health services and the expanding capabilities of
artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years has driven the development of digital mental health …

Background Chatbots have been used in the last decade to improve access to mental health
care services. Perceptions and opinions of patients influence the adoption of chatbots for …

Chatbots are increasingly becoming important gateways to digital services and information—
taken up within domains such as customer service, health, education, and work support …

This paper presents an efficiently robust facial expression recognition (FER) network, named
EfficientFace, which holds much fewer parameters but more robust to the FER in the wild …

This tutorial surveys neural approaches to conversational AI that were developed in the last
few years. We group conversational systems into three categories:(1) question answering …

Objective There are many barriers to accessing mental health assessments including cost
and stigma. Even when individuals receive professional care, assessments are intermittent …

Voice User Interfaces (VUIs) are becoming ubiquitously available, being embedded both
into everyday mobility via smartphones, and into the life of the home via'assistant'devices …

As virtual reality (VR) technology and systems become more commercially available and
accessible, more and more psychologists are starting to integrate VR as part of their …

Affective computing is an emerging interdisciplinary research field bringing together
researchers and practitioners from various fields, ranging from artificial intelligence, natural …

The Audio/Visual Emotion Challenge and Workshop (AVEC 2019)'State-of-Mind, Detecting
Depression with AI, and Cross-cultural Affect Recognition'is the ninth competition event …