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Supporting Social and Emotional Well-Being with Artificial Intelligence

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Social and emotional well-being are important and integral aspects of general health. Artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies, such as conversational chatbots, virtual assistants, and socially assistive robots, have been increasingly integrated in society to address the needs of those individuals whose social or emotional well-being have been compromised. Given the growing concern for mental health issues, this chapter discusses two factors that undermine human emotional and mental states, that is, issues related to mental conditions (e.g., depression or anxiety) and social interactions (e.g., loneliness or social isolation). The discussion embraces assistive benefits of AI-based technologies and underlines existing challenges regarding their use.

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    Tetyana K. Dhimolea, Regina Kaplan-Rakowski & Lin Lin

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Dhimolea, T.K., Kaplan-Rakowski, R., Lin, L. (2022). Supporting Social and Emotional Well-Being with Artificial Intelligence. In: Albert, M.V., Lin, L., Spector, M.J., Dunn, L.S. (eds) Bridging Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence. Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84729-6_8

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