Program
The workshop takes place on Thursday, October 9, 2026 in Naples, Italy, as part of ICMI 2026.
| Time | Session | Authors / Presenters | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Intro | Program | |
| 9:10 – 10:00 | Keynote | tba | Program |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Official Break | Break | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Multimodal Depression Detection Varies with Cross-Dataset Differences | Maneesh Bilalpur; Saurabh Hinduja; Sonish Sivarajkumar; Nicholas Allen; Yanshan Wang; Itir Onal Ertugrul; Jeff Cohn | Talk |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Scenario-Adaptive Multimodal Emotion Recognition for Supporting Affect Perception in Doctor–Patient Consultations | Zhaolong Wang; Aoi Taguchi; Homura Kawamura; Tomohumi Miura; Yuka Maeda; Yukihiko Okada; Keiichi Zempo | Talk |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Retrieval-Augmented Personalization with Foundation Models for Wearable Stress Detection | Louis Simon; Mohamed Chetouani | Talk |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Buffer / Free Time / Poster Preparation | Break | |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch | Break | |
| 14:00 – 14:02 | PlainHealth: A Multimodal Service Suite for Cognitively Accessible Healthcare Communication | Lourdes Moreno; Paloma Martínez; Jesus M. Sanchez-Gomez | Poster pitch |
| 14:02 – 14:04 | Benchmarking Vector Quantized Auto-Encoders for Multimodal Vision-Language Tokenization of Medical Images | Emílio Dolgener Cantú; Manasi Acharya; Jim Berend; Md Golam Rasul; Jackie Ma | Poster pitch |
| 14:04 – 14:06 | Co-Designing Accessible Embodied Conversational Agents for Post-COVID Syndrome Patients: A Participatory Case Study | Roman de Laporte; Nicolas Kaulen; Ana Kirschbaum; Chantal Herrmann; Caterina Neef; Anja Richert | Poster pitch |
| 14:06 – 14:08 | AI-based Analysis and Generation of Nonverbal Behavior: NEUROGES® as a Neuropsychologically Grounded Behavior Taxonomy for Health Applications | Hedda Lausberg; Philipp Müller; Patrick Gebhard | Poster pitch |
| 14:08 – 14:10 | A Modular Reference Architecture for Patient-Facing Generative AI Health Coaches in Chronic Self-Management | Leon Paul Mondrian Munz; Ana Kirschbaum; Christopher Kania; Tim Fellerhoff; Anja Richert | Poster pitch |
| 14:10 – 15:30 | Poster Session (Discussion) | Poster session | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Official Break | Break | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Wrap Up & Next Steps | Program |