Hemant Ghayvat
Name
Physical AI for Mental Health: From Emotion-Aware AI to Immersive Digital Healing
Description

How can AI move beyond prediction to become an active partner in healthcare? This session explores Physical AI for mental health, combining multimodal sensing, emotion-aware artificial intelligence, AR/VR and immersive digital environments. We will present MetaverseHealing 4.0, a research framework designed to support trauma-related mental-health assessment and digitally enhanced interventions through speech, visual and behavioural signals. The approach combines Speech Emotion Recognition, AI-driven decision support, interactive agents and personalised immersive scenarios to create more responsive and engaging digital health experiences. The session will discuss opportunities and challenges in translating these technologies from research laboratories into trustworthy healthcare applications, including human-AI interaction, personalisation, privacy, clinical validation and responsible AI. The goal is to explore how researchers, healthcare organisations and technology companies can collaboratively build the next generation of intelligent, accessible and human-centred health technologies.

Date & Time
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Theater
Theater 2
DTS Tracks 2026
AI

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