Call for Papers
The AI4Mental workshop focuses on three key components of the AI-assisted cognitive and mental health support ecosystem, topic of interest including:
AI as Assessment:
- Early detection and monitoring of mental health disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety, suicide risk, cognitive decline)
- Multimodal mental health assessment using text, speech, vision, physiological, and social signals
- Interpretable and fairness-aware assessment models for reliable clinical decision support
- Longitudinal modeling and personalized risk prediction across time and contexts
- Dataset construction, annotation strategies, and benchmark development for mental health assessment
AI as Emotional Support:
- Empathetic conversational agents and affect-aware dialogue systems
- Emotion recognition and adaptive response generation in mental health conversations
- Large Language Models (LLMs) for supportive dialogue, companionship, and mental well-being assistance
- Personalization, trust, and user engagement in AI-based emotional support systems
- Ethical considerations, safety alignment, and responsible deployment of AI emotional support tools
AI as Psychological Intervention:
- AI-assisted delivery of psychological interventions (e.g., CBT, mindfulness, motivational interviewing)
- Human-AI collaboration in therapeutic settings and clinician-in-the-loop systems
- Intervention planning, progress tracking, and outcome evaluation using AI
- Adaptive and personalized intervention strategies based on user state and feedback
- Clinical validation, real-world deployment, and regulatory challenges of AI-based interventions
Important Dates
| Event |
Date |
| Paper Submission Deadline |
April 30th, 2026 |
| Notification to Authors (Accept/Reject) |
June 4th, 2026 |
| Camera-ready Deadline for Workshop Papers |
TBD |
| Workshop Day |
TBD |
All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.
Submission Guidelines
Please submit your work through the submission system (link to be announced).
Submissions of papers must be in English, in PDF format, in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use the “sigconf” proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word).
- Long paper: Submission of original work up to eight pages in length (unlimited references and appendix).
- Short paper: Submission of work in progress with preliminary results, and position papers, up to four pages in length (unlimited references and appendix).
Note: Accepted papers will be archived on the workshop website maintained by the organisers (not be archived in the ACM Digital Library), and will follow a double-blind review policy.