On Monday 22 November, Raju Maharjan will defend his PhD thesis: "Speech-Enabled Conversational Agents to Support the Self-Report of Mental Health and Wellbeing"
Program
13:00 – 13:45 Oral presentation by Raju Maharjan – DTU build. 303A, auditorium 49
13:45 – 16:00 Exam – DTU build. 303A, auditorium. 49
16:00 – Reception – DTU build. 345C, 2nd floor
Zoom Link:
https://dtudk.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5MsdemhpzsoGtB_Gl4oDDazGfiKuEp8Cp8i
Supervisors:
Principal supervisor: Professor Jakob Eyvind Bardram
Co-supervisor: Associate Professor Per Bækgaard
Examiners:
Professor John Paulin Hansen, DTU Management
Associate Professor Benjamin R. Cowan, University College Dublin
Professor Katarzyna Wac, University of Copenhagen
Chairperson at defense:
Professor Henning Boje Andersen
PhD thesis Title: Speech-Enabled Conversational Agents to Support the Self-Report of Mental Health and Wellbeing
Summary:
The monitoring and assessment of mental health and wellbeing rely almost entirely on self-reported measures such as daily diary logging and health questionnaires. Adopting speech as their mode of interaction, speech-enabled conversational agents hold the potentials to enable more natural and engaging self-report experiences than traditional media (e.g., pen and paper, web, or smartphone systems). This thesis examines a speech-enabled conversational agent’s feasibility to support the self-report of mental health and wellbeing. Findings suggest that conversational agents can accurately collect the self-reports of wellbeing compared to the paper-based gold standard and that people living with affective disorders find this technology useful and more engaging than web-based methods. These findings present initial evidence of conversational agents’ feasibility to support the self-report of mental health and wellbeing and indicate the potential of the technology in monitoring, assessing, and delivering interventions like cognitive behavioral therapy for mental illness.