Wuhan, China 🇨🇳 | 30 October - 1 November, 2026
This track is part of the Information Processing & Management Conference 2026 (IP&MC 2026), and aims to enhance computational mental health research by emphasizing context-awareness and conversational scenarios. We invite contributions that cover a range of topics, from static text modeling to the processing of interactive contextual information.
We welcome submissions that include novel datasets, innovative modeling approaches, and evaluation frameworks that account for interactions, context, and temporal dynamics.
We welcome submissions on the following topics (not exclusive):
Context-aware and conversational modelling for mental health risk detection
Longitudinal and temporal approaches to detecting mental health risks
Datasets and resources for research on conversational and contextual mental health
Evaluation of conversational AI agents in realistic settings
The track accepts two types of submission:
Full papers will be presented at the conference and authors will then be asked to submit to a special issue of the IP&M Journal.
Note: The authors of the full papers can optionally submit a condensed version of their manuscript for the conference proceedings.
Poster publications will be presented at the conference and will only be published in the conference proceedings in Procedia Computer Science.
Submissions should be formatted according to the IP&M Journal guidelines and submitted through the dedicated manuscript submission system.
More details at: IP&MC 2026 Participation Page
30 June 2026
5 August 2026
14 August 2026
30 October - 1 November, 2026
Wuhan, China 🇨🇳
For any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the track chairs by sending an email with the conference name in the subject: [IP&MC2026]