Important dates:
- Submission deadline: the contributions can be submitted between February 1st, 2026 and March 30th, 2026 and will be reviewed on a rolling basis (the review starts as soon as the contribution is submitted);
- Notification of Outcome: the Authors will receive a notification of outcome (Accepted or Rejected) within two weeks from submission;
- Conference dates: June 17-19, 2026.
A contribution must include the following elements:
- Title
- Abstract (max 500 words)
- List of authors (including affiliations)
Any submission that does not include the three element above will be desk rejected.
Topics (the list is not exhaustive):
- Digital mental health interventions;
- Health apps, web apps, and software in mental health;
- Data science, analytics, and machine learning in mental health;
- Speech analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and smart speaker applications for mental health;
- Conversational user interfaces and chatbots for mental health;
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in mental health;
- Web technologies in mental health;
- Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) applications in mental health ;
- Digital Transformation of mental health services;
- Digital mental health and social prescriptions;
- Young people in mental health;
- Digital mental health interventions for marginalised groups;
- Digital storytelling, design fictions, interaction design, graphic design for mental health service co-creation;
- Digital citizenship in mental health;
- Smart cities and their impact on citizen’s wellbeing;
- Digital mental health employee wellbeing;
- Addressing engagement and retention in digital mental health services;
- Digital mental health service co-design and modelling;
- Sensors and wearable technologies in mental health;
- Affective computing and positive computing;
- Databases and datasets in mental health;
- Cyber-psychology and digital wellbeing;
- Digital mental health care models;
- Large Language Models (LLMs) in mental health;
- Ethics in digital mental health;
- Co-production and co-creation of digital mental health services;
- Digital mental health as adjunctive therapy;
- Using gamification approaches in digital mental health interventions;
- Evidence-based approaches for mental health services;
- Developing policy and practice around digital mental health interventions;
- Regulation, compliance, quality assurance and standards in digital mental health service design;
- Design and evaluation of digitally supported content, therapies and interventions.
The conference organisers are negotiating with the Journal of Behaviour & Information Technology to edit a special issue that will include an extended version of selected conference contributions.