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Recent conferences, workshops and special sessions

Conference Proceedings: International Digital Mental Health & Wellbeing Conference: Book of abstracts

Already available online! https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/conference-proceedings-international-digital-mental-health-amp-we

CRYSTAL – ConveRsational sYSTems for Assisted Living

MENHIR coorganises the CRYSTAL workshop within the PErvasive Technologies Related …

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Special session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems in WIRN 2023

The special session “Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems”, …

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Special session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems in WIRN 2022

The special session “Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems”, …

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ACM CUI22

CUI 2022

CUI 2022 has been held in Glasgow, UK, from 26–28th …

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Internacional Doctoral Summer School in Conversational Systems

Registration is now open for the Internacional Doctoral Summer School …

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ACM CUI22

CUI 2022 ACM in-cooperation conference

MENHIR member María Inés Torres is part of the Steering …

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CUI@CHI: Ethics of Conversational User Interfaces

MENHIR member Matthias Kraus, from Ulm University is co-organizing the …

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First International Workshop on Trustworthy AI for the Future of Risk Management

MENHIR members Maurice Mulvenna and Jane Zheng from Ulster University …

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Zoraida Callejas at Iberoamerican Chatbot

Zoraida Callejas at the Iberoamerican Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit

Zoraida Callejas has delivered the presentation “Salud mental electrónica e …

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Michael McTear at Iberoamerican Chatbot

Michael McTear at the Iberoamerican Chatbot & Conversational AI Summit

Michael F. McTear has delivered the presentation “Creating conversational interfaces: …

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Conversational user interfaces (CUI 2021)

Following the successful ACM In-Cooperation CUI conferences in 2019 and …

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First Workshop on Multimodal e-Coaches

Authors: Leonardo Angelini, Mira El Kamali, Elena Mugellini, Omar Abou …

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ICMI2020

MENHIR co-organises workshop at ICMI 2020

The 22nd ACM Conference on Multimodal Interaction is scheduled for …

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BEhavINg coGnitive Systems: Believable, Autonomous, Adaptive, Context Aware (BEINGS)

MENHIR is involved in the organization of the special session: …

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NII Shonan Meeting on Spoken Multimodal Dialogue Systems Technology for Pervasive Computing

Our colleagues Wolfgang Minker (Ulm University) and Zoraida Callejas (University …

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MENHIR at the XXXV Int. Conf. of the Spanish Society for Natural Language

The MENHIR project has been presented by Zoraida Callejas at …

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Madrid

Special session in IWSDS2020

Splendid news! Our proposal for a special session on “Dialogue …

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MENHIR and EMPATHIC

MENHIR at Interspeech 2019

MENHIR has been present at Interspeech 2019 in a special …

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The European Conference on Mental Health (ECMH)

The ECMH want to increase collaboration between service users and …

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Belfast

European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics

Maurice Mulvenna and Raymond Bond (Ulster University) are the General …

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Graz

Special session Interspeech 2019

Anna Esposito (UVA), María Inés Torres (UPV) and Zoraida Callejas …

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Recent press appearances

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Podcast in VozCast – Women In Voice Spain

July 23, 2021

MENHIR coordinator Zoraida Callejas participates in the second season of VozCast, the podcast of Women In Voice Spain, where is …

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CS-AIW in Novaciencia

MENHIR in PRESS (NovaCiencia): La UGR participa en un clúster europeo de investigación sobre supervivencia al cáncer, bienestar e inteligencia artificial

June 1, 2021

MENHIR in PRESS (Canal UGR): La UGR participa en un clúster europeo de investigación sobre supervivencia al cáncer, bienestar e inteligencia artificial

May 21, 2021

https://canal.ugr.es/noticia/la-ugr-participa-en-un-cluster-europeo-de-investigacion-sobre-supervivencia-al-cancer-bienestar-e-inteligencia-artificial/

MENHIR in AgenParl

MENHIR IN PRESS (AgenParl): La UGR participa en un clúster europeo de investigación sobre supervivencia al cáncer, bienestar e inteligencia artificial

May 21, 2021
CS_AIW in granadaesnoticia.com

MENHIR IN PRESS (GranadaEsNoticia): La UGR participa en un clúster europeo de investigación sobre supervivencia al cáncer, bienestar e inteligencia artificial

May 21, 2021

https://www.granadaesnoticia.com/universidad/la-ugr-participa-en-un-cluster-europeo-de-investigacion-sobre-supervivencia-al-cancer–bienestar-e-inteligencia-artificial

MENHIR participation in the Science Week (Spanish)

November 4, 2020

Las máquinas tienen su propio lenguaje. Cuando queremos comunicarnos con ellas, tenemos que adaptarnos a una nueva forma de comunicación, …

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International Doctoral Summer School in Conversational Systems for Mental e-health (CanalUGR)

September 7, 2020

Un programa europeo utilizará ‘chatbots’ para ayudar a pacientes con problemas de salud mental (Neurocienciasonline)

February 20, 2020

https://www.neurocienciasonline.com/noticia/un-programa-europeo-utilizara-chatbots-para-ayudar-a-pacientes-con-problemas-de-salud-mental

MENHIR in RabioLab (in Spanish)

February 19, 2020

Zoraida Callejas presents MENHIR to the general public in RadioLab, listen to the podcast (in Spanish), here: https://medialab.ugr.es/noticias/co3-el-proyecto-chatbot-con-zoraida-callejas/

MENHIR in Facebook – Oficina de Proyectos Internacionales (Granada, Spain)

February 10, 2020

https://www.facebook.com/oficina.proyectos.internacionales/photos/a.822309041141773/2831507373555253/?type=3&av=676842029021809&eav=AfZROFPA1MXTiJp1gEjE4Ht-5Aoxx2mUD-Rr6fQpHEVcxBrYi5jyzq2Bo6DmlSS_jPY&theater

MENHIR in the newspapers

February 7, 2020

MENHIR appears in the press!! IDEAL (Spanish regional newspaper): https://www.ideal.es/miugr/participa-proyecto-europeo-20200204103911-nt.html?edtn=granada#vca=fixed-btn&vso=rrss&vmc=tw&vli=miUGR NovaCiencia (science magazine): https://novaciencia.es/estudian-el-uso-de-chatbots-para-reducir-la-ansiedad-y-la-depresion-leve/ Redacción médica (health magazine): https://www.redaccionmedica.com/secciones/psiquiatria/utilizan-chatbots-para-ayudar-a-gestionar-la-ansiedad-y-depresion-leve-7002

Estudian el uso de ‘chatbots’ para reducir la ansiedad y la depresión leve (Revista Novaciencia)

February 6, 2020

Un proyecto europeo utilizará ‘chatbots’ para mejorar la salud mental de pacientes con ansiedad y depresión leve (DesQbre Fundación)

February 5, 2020

MENHIR press release

February 5, 2020

The press office of the University of Granada (Spain) has generated a press release about MENHIR, which is already bringing …

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Un proyecto europeo utilizará ‘chatbots’ para mejorar la salud mental de pacientes con ansiedad y depresión leve (GranadaEsNoticia newspaper)

February 4, 2020

https://www.granadaesnoticia.com/universidad/un-proyecto-europeo-utilizara-chatbots-para-mejorar-la-salud-mental-de-pacientes-con-ansiedad-y-depresion-leve

Un proyecto europeo utilizará ‘chatbots’ para mejorar la salud mental de pacientes con ansiedad y depresión leve (MotrilDigital newspaper)

February 4, 2020

Un proyecto europeo utilizará ‘chatbots’ para mejorar la salud mental de pacientes con ansiedad y depresión leve (CanalUGR Press Release)

February 4, 2020

Utilizan ‘chatbots’ para ayudar a gestionar la ansiedad y depresión leve (Redacción Médica)

February 4, 2020

https://www.redaccionmedica.com/secciones/psiquiatria/utilizan-chatbots-para-ayudar-a-gestionar-la-ansiedad-y-depresion-leve-7002

La UGR recurre a la inteligencia artificial para combatir la depresión y la ansiedad (Newspaper GranadaDigital)

February 4, 2020

La UGR participa en un proyecto europeo que utilizará inteligencia artificial para tratar la ansiedad y depresión leve (Newspaper: Ideal)

February 4, 2020

https://www.ideal.es/miugr/participa-proyecto-europeo-20200204103911-nt.html?edtn=granada#vca=fixed-btn&vso=rrss&vmc=tw&vli=miUGR

Recent scientific publications

You can find video presentations and slides corresponding to MENHIR publications in the downloads section.

Incorporating evidence into mental health Q&A: a novel method to use generative language models for validated clinical content extraction

March 11, 2024

A Synthetic Voice for an Assistive Conversational Agent: A Survey to Discover Italian Preferences regarding Synthetic Voice’s Gender and Quality Level

January 3, 2024

Applications of Digital Hermeneutics to Suicide Prevention and Digital Mental Health

November 30, 2023

Discriminative Power of Handwriting and Drawing Features in Depression

November 27, 2023

Digital transformation of mental health services

August 24, 2023

Working together to close the gap between digital mental health research and real world implementation: Facilitating dialogues between academics, service providers, industry and the public

July 28, 2023

Conversational Human–Machine Interfaces

July 24, 2023

Conference Proceedings: International Digital Mental Health & Wellbeing Conference: Book of abstracts

July 17, 2023

Cancer Survivorship and AI for Well-being White Paper: A European research projects collaborative perspective

May 24, 2023

Do you like me? Behavioral and physical features for socially and emotionally engaging interactive system

March 24, 2023

Handwriting and Drawing for Depression Detection: A Preliminary Study

February 24, 2023

Analysis of Deep Learning-Based Decision-Making in an Emotional Spontaneous Speech Task

January 13, 2023

Handwriting and Drawing Features for Detecting Personality Traits: An Analysis on Big Five Sub-dimensions

January 2, 2023

On features and measures of psychological wellbeing

December 27, 2022

Identifying Synthetic Voices’ Qualities for Conversational Agents

December 21, 2022

An application of conversational systems to promote healthy lifestyle habits

December 19, 2022

A cross-cultural survey to identify Seniors’ preferences towards the Empathic Virtual Coach

December 19, 2022

The Role of Language in Building Automatic Models for Depression Detection

December 19, 2022

Speaker Recognition using Multiple X-Vector Speaker Representations with Two-Stage Clustering and Outlier Detection Refinement

December 14, 2022

Speech emotion recognition in Spanish TV Debates

December 12, 2022

Intelligent Voice Speaker Recognition and Diarization System for IberSpeech 2022 Albayzin Evaluations Speaker Diarization and Identity Assignment Challenge

November 30, 2022

Mental Health Monitoring from Speech and Language

November 24, 2022

A Proposal for Data Collection and Process Automatization for Ubiquitous Engagement with Mental Health Organizations

November 24, 2022

Android Robots vs Virtual Agents: Which system differently aged users prefer?

October 3, 2022

A Comparison Between Convolutional and Transformer Architectures for Speech Emotion Recognition

October 3, 2022

Two-Stage Deep Learning Approach for Speech Enhancement and Reconstruction in The Frequency and Time Domains

October 3, 2022

Reciprocity versus Self-Interest in a Competitive Interaction Context: An Experimental Study

September 28, 2022

A Proposal for Developing and Deploying Statistical Dialog Management in Commercial Conversational Platforms

September 15, 2022

Towards a Semantic Data Model for Representing, Storing, and Retrieving Knowledge about Coping Strategies for Use in Digital Mental Health Interventions

September 13, 2022

Comparing Middle-Aged and Seniors’ Preferences Toward Virtual Agents and Android Robots: Is There a Generational Shift in Assistive Technologies’ Preferences?

August 1, 2022

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