Future Wellbeing: A Hands-on Design Fiction Workshop Exploring Human-Agent Interaction and Mental Health
Paper i proceeding, 2025

This hands-on workshop will explore the potential implementa-tions of human-agent interaction and mental health, with a specificfocus on virtual companions. To achieve this, we will be using de-sign fiction to anticipate individual, societal, ethical, and culturalimplications. In this workshop, we will together create design fic-tion stories that explore virtual companions and practical, ethical,and societal issues with their possible implementation in mentalhealthcare.

Affective Computing

Ethics

Workshop

Design Fiction

Human-Agent Interaction

Mental Health

VirtualCompanions

Psychology

Författare

Negin Hashmati

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Therése Skoog

Göteborgs universitet

Mohammad Obaid

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Thommy Eriksson

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Interaktionsdesign och Software Engineering

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction


979-8-4007-2178-6 (ISBN)

13th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, HAI 2025
Yokohama, Japan,

Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2025)

Människa-datorinteraktion (interaktionsdesign)

Design

DOI

10.1145/3765766.3765882

Mer information

Skapat

2026-01-14