Intelligent interactive technologies for mental health and well-being
This is an incremental review paper that addresses the problem of improving mental health interventions for patients and practitioners by analyzing current technologies.
The paper reviews existing intelligent interactive technologies, such as robots, video games, and conversational agents, used for automating assessment and evaluation in mental healthcare, and provides a critical analysis and design outlooks for future development.
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.