MSA 2024: The first International Workshop on Multimodal Social Agents & Robots for Mental Health and Wellbeing – A new world with foundation models at ACII 2024

Every day, hundreds of millions of people go to bed anxious, depressed, unhappy, with no peace of mind or knowing what to do tomorrow to make their lives better. Human-like conversational AI agents with affect sensing capabilities can revolutionise digital mental health and wellbeing solutions. Multimodal agents that can interact through face, voice and natural language are essential to mimic human-human-like interactions. The advent of vision-language Foundation models such as GPT and DALL.E has dramatically transformed human-AI interaction. Coupled with large language foundation models, Social agents and robots equipped with multimodal affective interactions, have the potential to enable novel approaches to assess mental health conditions such as clinical depression and anxiety.

The MSA-2024 workshop jointly organized with BLUESKYE AI at ACII-2024 conference in Glasgow, aims to explore applications of cutting-edge Multimodal Social Agents and Robots to Digital Mental Health and Wellbeing solutions, providing a platform for researchers working on mental health technologies to network, share ideas and best practices and explore new opportunities and potential solutions to current challenges.

Organisers

• Joy Egede, Assistant Professor at University of Nottingham

• Mani Tellamekala, Head of R&D at BLUESKEYE AI

• Michel Valstar, Chief Evangelist and Scientific Officer at BLUESKEYE AI

• Nick Cummins, Lecturer at King’s College London

• Prof Pierre Philip, Université de Bordeaux

• Sharon Mozgai, University of Southern California