Almost done with some research on using affective computing technology in the mental health area? If you hurry, you might still be able to present it at ACII 2024 in Glasgow in September. The deadline for the first International Workshop on Multimodal Social Agents & Robots for Mental Health and Wellbeing has been extended to 5 July 2025. Details here: https://www.blueskeye.com/acii-workshop<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.blueskeye.com/acii-workshop__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!ucu-o3IwVTS_24hRJv_q6bNFEUl0Pg3EAQNHoVIhYFCQ8v--EQzmudbAx0m91cnvzi1t0bH7zFqD7n_o1Kg$>" MSA 2024: The First International Workshop on Multimodal Social Agents & Robots for Mental Health and Wellbeing Overview: The MSA 2024 workshop, held at ACII 2024 in Glasgow, focuses on the role of multimodal social agents and robots in enhancing digital mental health and wellbeing. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss innovative solutions and share best practices in the field. Key Details: * Organizers: * Joy Egede, University of Nottingham * Mani Tellamekala, BLUESKEYE AI * Michel Valstar, BLUESKEYE AI * Nick Cummins, King’s College London * Prof Pierre Philip, Université de Bordeaux * Sharon Mozgai, University of Southern California * Keynote Speaker: * Prof Pierre Philip * Call for Papers: * Topics of Interest: * Recognition of mental health conditions from face and voice * Improving mental health treatment delivery using empathetic social agents and robots * Providing mental health advice using social virtual agents and robots * Reports of real-world deployment of virtual agents and social robots * Ethical issues of virtual agents and social robots for mental health management * Submission Guidelines: * Papers should follow ACII 2024 templates available here<https://acii-conf.net/2024/authors/submission-guidelines/>. * Double-blind review process * Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Library under ACII 2024 Workshop proceedings. * Submit papers to the MSA webpage on EasyChair. * Important Dates: * Call for papers published: 19 February 2024 * Submission deadline: 5 July 2024 * Notification to authors: 14 July 2024 * Camera ready deadline: 31 July 2024 * Workshop date: 15 September 2024 * Best Paper Prize: * BLUESKEYE AI will award £500 to the best workshop paper. For more information and paper submission, please visit the MSA webpage on EasyChair. This workshop offers a significant opportunity for collaboration and advancement in the field of digital mental health using multimodal social agents and robots. ________________________________ The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments is intended only for the named recipient to whom it was originally addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and permanently delete the e-mail and any attachments.