The workshop takes place on Thursday, October 9, 2026 in Naples, Italy, as part of ICMI 2026.

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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