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Conversational Agents for Mental Health and Wellbeing

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Recent advances in spoken language technology, artificial intelligence, and conversational interface design, coupled with the emergence of smart devices, have increased the possibilities of using conversational interfaces for a growing range of application domains. These interfaces are currently applied in the healthcare domain in a range of innovative tasks that allow to provide a more natural user-friendly human-machine communication, promote patient participation in their own care, and help and support medical professionals. This chapter describes in detail the great potential for the use of conversational interfaces for the specific area of mental health, highlighting their most valuable applications in this domain and the open challenges for future research.

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Notes

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    https://www.who.int/healthpromotion/health-literacy/en/ (Last access: July 2020)

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    See a sample interview here: http://www.sanpsy.univ-bordeauxsegalen.fr/Papers/Additional_Material.html (Last Access: July 2020).

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This research has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 823907 (MENHIR project https://menhir-project.eu).

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Callejas, Z., Griol, D. (2021). Conversational Agents for Mental Health and Wellbeing. In: Lopez-Soto, T. (eds) Dialog Systems. Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61438-6_11

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