Intelligent interactive technologies for mental health and well-being

TL;DR

This paper reviews the use of intelligent interactive technologies like robots, video games, and conversational agents in mental health care, analyzing current solutions and proposing future design directions.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of existing intelligent mental health technologies and offers future outlooks for their development.

Findings

Various technologies automate psychological assessment and treatment evaluation.

Critical analysis highlights strengths and limitations of current solutions.

Future design outlooks aim to enhance effectiveness and accessibility.

Abstract

Mental healthcare has seen numerous benefits from interactive technologies and artificial intelligence. Various interventions have successfully used intelligent technologies to automate the assessment and evaluation of psychological treatments and mental well-being and functioning. These technologies include different types of robots, video games, and conversational agents. The paper critically analyzes existing solutions with the outlooks for their future. In particular, we: i)give an overview of the technology for mental health, ii) critically analyze the technology against the proposed criteria, and iii) provide the design outlooks for these technologies.