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TL;DR: A new generation of technologies capable of interacting with the environment and aiming to simulate human intelligence, and the success of integrating AI into these technologies is being studied.

TL;DR: Preliminary evidence for psychiatric use of chatbots is favourable, however, given the heterogeneity of the reviewed studies, further research with standardized outcomes reporting is required to more thoroughly examine the effectiveness of conversational agents.

TL;DR: This study aimed to guide the psychologist into the novel world of VR, reviewing available instrumentation and mapping the landscape of possible systems, and proposes that the biggest challenge for the field would be to build a fully interactive virtual human who can pass a VR Turing test.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a comprehensive update on the overall field of digital psychiatry, covering three areas: the relevance of recent technological advances to mental health research and care, by detailing how smartphones, social media, artificial intelligence and virtual reality present new opportunities for "digital phenotyping" and remote intervention.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of visual anonymity in encouraging self-disclosure during computer-mediated communication and found that heightened private self-awareness, when combined with reduced public selfawareness, was associated with significantly higher levels of spontaneous self disclosure during computer mediated communication.

TL;DR: This paper explores and compares techniques for automatically recognizing facial actions in sequences of images and provides converging evidence for the importance of using local filters, high spatial frequencies, and statistical independence for classifying facial actions.

TL;DR: Doctors play an active role in regulating the quantity of information elicited at the beginning of the clinical encounter, and use closed-ended questioning to control the discourse, resulting in the premature interruption of patients.

TL;DR: SimSensei Kiosk is presented, an implemented virtual human interviewer designed to create an engaging face-to-face interaction where the user feels comfortable talking and sharing information and development of a fully automatic virtual interviewer able to engage users in 15-25 minute interactions.