DMHW 2027 invites researchers, clinicians, practitioners, technology developers and policymakers to share their latest research and innovations in digital mental health and wellbeing.
The conference brings together research, technology and practice to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and advance effective, accessible and sustainable digital mental health solutions.
*Please Note: Delegate numbers are limited, so early registration is encouraged.
All submissions will be peer reviewed, and accepted abstracts will be published online in the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted abstracts must register and present their work at the conference.
A potential special issue of Behaviour & Information Technology, featuring extended versions of selected contributions, is also being explored.
Important Dates
- Abstract submissions: 1 December 2026 – 27 March 2027
- Notification of outcome: Within two weeks of submission (rolling review)
- Registration: 1 January – 16 April 2027
- Conference dates: 26–28 May 2027
Submission Requirements
Contributions must include:
- A title
- An abstract (maximum 500 words)
- Author names and affiliations
All submissions will be peer reviewed, and accepted abstracts will be published online in the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted abstracts must register and present their work at the conference.
Submissions are made via EasyChair: [LINK TBA]
Topics
The list is not exhaustive:
- Digital mental health interventions
- Health apps, web apps and software in mental health
- Data science, analytics and machine learning in mental health
- Speech analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and smart speaker applications for mental health
- Conversational user interfaces and chatbots for mental health
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in mental health
- Web technologies in mental health
- Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) applications in mental health
- Digital transformation of mental health services
- Digital mental health and social prescribing
- Young people and mental health
- Digital mental health interventions for marginalised groups
- Digital storytelling, design fiction, interaction design and graphic design for mental health service co-creation
- Digital citizenship in mental health
- Smart cities and their impact on citizens' wellbeing
- Digital mental health and employee wellbeing
- Engagement and retention in digital mental health services
- Digital mental health service co-design and modelling
- Sensors and wearable technologies in mental health
- Affective computing and positive computing
- Databases and datasets in mental health
- Cyberpsychology and digital wellbeing
- Digital mental healthcare models
- Large Language Models (LLMs) in mental health
- Generative AI for personalised psychoeducation, therapeutic content and self-help resources
- Synthetic data generation for mental health research, model training and privacy preservation
- Safety, risk and hallucination management of generative AI tools in mental health support
- Ethics in digital mental health
- Co-production and co-creation of digital mental health services
- Digital mental health as adjunctive therapy
- Gamification approaches in digital mental health interventions
- Evidence-based approaches for mental health services
- Policy and practice around digital mental health interventions
- Regulation, compliance, quality assurance and standards in digital mental health service design
- Design and evaluation of digitally supported content, therapies and interventions
Venue
SIREN – Italian Society of Neural Networks
Via Giuseppe Pellegrino, 19
84019 – Vietri sul Mare – Italy
Partners & Sponsors
Digital Mental Health Innovation Cluster
PNEUMA
SIREN (Società Italiana Reti Neuroniche)
Social AI (social-cdt.org)
Ulster University
Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
University of Glasgow
YouthDMH
Further Information
- Website: https://dmhw.net/
- X: https://x.com/DMHW2027