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Mental health research investigates how conditions such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and suicidality develop, affect daily life, and respond to care. Researchers use clinical interviews and questionnaires, brain and wearable measurements, population studies, and computational analysis of speech, text, and behavior. Current approaches include psychological therapies and digital interventions, alongside machine-learning tools for screening, symptom tracking, and clinical decision support. A central challenge is ensuring that findings and AI systems remain reliable across people, cultures, and care settings while protecting privacy and avoiding harm.

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Understanding Everyday Communication Patterns, Stress, and Productivity in Hybrid Work through Egocentric Wearable Audio Sensing
Oct 27, 2026Tiantian Feng, Aditya Kommineni, Emily Zhou +4Wearable Sensing Mental Health
Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory, University of Southern California, USA⋆ · Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, USA‡ · Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, USA†
Beyond Physical Illness: Can Clinical Narratives Reveal Emerging Mental Health Risks in Chronically Ill Patients?
Oct 26, 2026Sudeshna Jana, Siddhartha Laha, Manjira Sinha +2Mental Health Clinical Risk Prediction
IIT Kharagpur, India
MATCHA: A Chinese Multi-Disorder Mental Health Dataset with Cross-Lingual Analyses on Social Media
Oct 26, 2026Bingrui Jin, Baihan Li, Zitong Li +4Mental Health Social Media Analysis
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
X-pressing Intimacy: Mental Health Disclosure After Twitter Acquisition
Oct 21, 2026Olivia Pal, Yunhao Yuan, Meghana Mandava +3Mental Health Social Media Analysis
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA · Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
A discrete-continuous-time stochastic framework for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder-related symptom modeling and pharmacological intervention via methylphenidate
Oct 18, 2026Oana-Maria-Catalina CrisanMental Health Stochastic Optimal Control
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babes,-Bolyai University, Str. Mihail Kog˘alniceanu, nr. 1, Cluj-Napoca, 400084, Romania.
Secondhand Stress: How Stressful Disclosures Affect Psychosocial Wellbeing in Online Graduate Admissions Communities
Oct 15, 2026Veda Duddu, Agam Goyal, Sabelle Huang +3Mental Health
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Identifying Effective Strategies in Prompt Evolution for Stress and Emotion Prediction
Oct 15, 2026SeungHyun Yi, Seungjun Yi, Sriram Sattiraju +12LLM Prompting Emotion Recognition
Department of Computer Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea · Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA · Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA +9
What do AI chatbots do after users decline therapeutic redirection for suicide thoughts?
Oct 15, 2026Subigya Nepal, Ruth Heo, Emma M Parrish +1Conversational Agents LLM Safety Evaluation
Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (Nepal) · Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla (Heo, Parrish, Depp) · VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, California (Parrish)
Predicting Mental Health Help-Seeking Behaviour on Reddit: A Survival Analysis of Linguistic and Behavioural Signals
Oct 12, 2026Nisar Ahmed, Ammara Kazmi, Irtaza Bashir Raja +1Mental Health Social Media Analysis
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK · Department of Computer Science, Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan · Department of Engineering Management, NUST, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
AI Representations of Mental Health Stigma: Quantifying the Gap Between AI Estimations and Human Perceptions Across Gender Groups Using GPT-Based LLMs
Oct 12, 2026Soojong Kim, Hye Min Kim, Kwanho Kim +1Social Bias in Language Models Gender Bias in Language Models
Department of Communication, University of California Davis, United States · Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts Boston, United States · Department of Media, College of Politics and Economics, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
DistressBench: Evaluating Multi-Dimensional Crisis Support in Large Language Models
Oct 8, 2026Drew Rein, Patrick Oathout, Vishal Kumar +1Language Model Safety Evaluation LLM Safety Benchmarks
Scale AI · Work done while at Scale AI
Social Pain Disrupts Emotion-Action Brain-State Dynamics in Adolescents with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Oct 8, 2026Ying Xu, Xiaojun Liang, Li Zhang +4Mental Health
School of Biomedical Engineering, Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China. · Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, Shenzhen, China. · Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China.
Trigger Sound Suppression for Misophonia
Sep 28, 2026Vaishnavi Vidyasagar, Jasmine Zhang, Mahima Uliyar +4Mental Health Audio Source Separation
University of Washington · Duke Center for Misophonia and Emotion Regulation
Beyond Baseline Severity: Temporal and Disease-Specific Predictors of Depression Outcomes Following Mindfulness Interventions
Sep 19, 2026Muhammad Jawad Chowdhury, Sultanus Salehin, Akib Jayed IslamClinical Outcome Prediction Mental Health
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh · Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh · Computational Colour & Spectral Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Building Trustworthy Mental Health Benchmarks on Bluesky: A Validation-Aware Weak-Supervision Framework
Sep 19, 2026Gaurab Chhetri, Anandi Dutta, Subasish DasMental Health Social Media Analysis
Department of Computer Science Texas State University San Marcos, Texas, USA · Ingram School of Engineering Texas State University San Marcos, Texas, USA
Learned Parametric Emotion Editing: Real-Time Affective Filtering for On-Device Social Media Video
Sep 18, 2026Musa Rochi, Marcel Schubert, Christoph GebhardtImage Editing Video Editing
Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences (OST)
Clinician-Grounded Quality Assurance for AI-Assisted Psychiatric Intake
Sep 17, 2026King Shi, Amanda Li, Jonathan Ivey +7Clinical Language Model Evaluation Mental Health
Johns Hopkins University
Aligning with Lived Experience: Heterogeneous Benefits of Fine Tuning in Mental Health Support Generation
Sep 17, 2026Mohit Chandra, Nabin Kim, Eli Min +3LLM Alignment Emotional Support Conversation
Georgia Institute of Technology · Magic Hour
CliniCIRCA: A Modular LLM Framework for Constructing Longitudinal Mental Health Patient Journeys from Raw EHR Narratives
Sep 17, 2026Aiwei Ivy Zhang, Nimra Ishfaq, Mohit Chandra +5Temporal Reasoning in Language Models Mental Health
Georgia Institute of Technology · University of Texas at Austin · Northwell Health
BurnRiSc: Toward Non-Invasive Burnout Screening in Open Source from Public Repository Signals
Sep 16, 2026Timofey Sanko, Yuan Tian, Mariam GuizaniSoftware Engineering Open-Source Software Development
Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Psychological Effects of Cultural Upheavals from Millions of Song Lyrics Over 100 Years
Sep 15, 2026David M. MarkowitzMental Health
Department of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824
An AI-Powered Culturally Aware Chatbot for Stress Detection and Wellness Support among Pakistani University Students Using NLP and Machine Learning
Sep 10, 2026Muhammad Fahad Bashir, Muhammad AfzalMental Health Mental Health Conversational Agents
Department of Computer Science & Information Technology, Ghazi University Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan
Quantifying the Engagement Trap: Impact of Short-form Video Recommender Systems on Users with ADHD
Sep 7, 2026Vedad Misirlic, Gregor Mayr, Elisabeth LexMental Health Human-Centered AI
Graz University of Technology, Austria
AdoDAS: A Privacy-Preserving Multimodal Challenge for Adolescent Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Assessment
Sep 7, 2026Zhaojie Luo, Junkun Wang, Tianhua Qi +11Depression Detection Mental Health
Southeast University · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute · Southeast University Nanjing, Jiangsu, China +13
A Rubric-Guided Large Language Model Solution for Opioid Use Disorder Computable Phenotyping
Sep 4, 2026Mengxian Lyu, Paredes Pardo, Cheng Peng +7Medical LLMs Clinical Information Extraction
Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA · Department of Engineering Education, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA · Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA +2
SMOTE-VAR: An Uncertainty-Aware Oversampling Method for Predicting Depression Remission in University Students
Aug 31, 2026Dang Nguyen, Arun Kumar A, Taylor A. Braund +8Class-Imbalanced Learning Mental Health
Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative (A2I2), Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia · Black Dog Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Generating Clinical Vignettes that Preserve Cognitive Formulations
Aug 30, 2026Amit Oren, Nimrod Hertz-Palmor, Dean Ariel +1Constrained Generative Modeling Mental Health
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel · 2MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom · 3Clalit Health Services, Israel +3
How Mental Health Self-Disclosure Becomes Visible: Evidence from Eight Conditions on Reddit
Aug 29, 2026Renkai Ma, Lingyao Li, Shanting Chen +3Mental Health
College of Information Science University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona, USA · Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering University of Florida Gainesville, Florida, USA
BALMS: Benchmarking Agentic LLMs for Longitudinal Mental Health Sensing
Aug 27, 2026Yu Yvonne Wu, Arvind Pillai, Yuliang Chen +7AI Agent Benchmarks Mental Health
Dartmouth College · University of Cambridge
HealthBench-Psych: A Mental Health Subset of OpenAI's HealthBench
Aug 25, 2026Matthew Flathers, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Jill Noorily +7Clinical Language Model Evaluation LLM Evaluation
Division of Digital Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA · Department of Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

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Understanding Everyday Communication Patterns, Stress, and Productivity in Hybrid Work through Egocentric Wearable Audio Sensing

Tiantian Feng, Aditya Kommineni, Emily Zhou, Burcin Becerik-Gerber+3

Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory, University of Southern California, USA⋆ · Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Southern California, USA‡ · Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California, USA†

Wearable Sensing Mental Health Speaker Diarization

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The hybrid work trend in the post-COVID period has transformed how people communicate while at work. However, there is a lack of quantitative understanding of how home and office environments shape communicative behavior and affective well-being. To study this, as a part of a larger study of the role of work environment on stress, we designed an egocentric wearable audio sensing system that captured interpersonal communication across both working locations. The system extracts real-time acoustic features on a wearable audio sensor and performs offline foreground speaker diarization to derive speaking load and activeness features. To improve diarization performance under low-dimensional feature constraints, we apply a teacher-student knowledge distillation framework that transfers knowledge from large-scale speech foundation models into a compact ResNet-based model, achieving consistent improvements in diarization performance over the baseline across three public egocentric speech datasets. In a four-month longitudinal deployment with 16 participants, our system revealed location-dependent differences in work communication patterns. Moreover, the mixed linear model analyses showed that office-based speaking load was significantly associated with higher self-reported stress and lower self-reported productivity, while speaking activeness during home-based work amplified both productivity and affective load in this cohort.