Conversational agents for mental health and wellbeing Callejas Carrión, Zoraida Griol Barres, David This is a pre-print version of the chapter: Zoraida Callejas, David Griol. 2021. Conversational agents for mental healthand wellbeing. Accepted for the book: Lopez-Soto, T. (Ed.). (2021). Dialog Systems: A Perspective from Language,Logic and Computation. Springer International Publishing.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61438-6(https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030614379)This preprint follows Springer Self-archiving policy for non-open access books and chapters (https://www.springer.com/gp/open-access/publication-policies/self-archiving-policy): “authors may deposit a portion ofthe pre-submission version of their manuscript (preprint) in a recognised preprint server (...). This portion of thepre-submission manuscript (preprint) may be deposited and made publicly available at a Recent advances in spoken language technology, artificial intelligence, and conversational interface design, coupled with the emergence of smart devices, have increased the possibilities of using conversational interfaces for a growing range of application domains. These interfaces are currently applied in the healthcare domain in a range of innovative tasks that allow to provide a more natural an user-friendly human-machine communication, promote patient participation in their own care, and help and support medical professionals. This chapter provides a detailed description of the great potential for the use of conversational interfaces for the specific area of mental health by means of the description of their most valuable applications in this domain and the open challenges for future research. 2020-12-09T11:43:35Z 2020-12-09T11:43:35Z 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart Zoraida Callejas, David Griol. 2021. Conversational agents for mental health and wellbeing. Accepted for the book: Lopez-Soto, T. (Ed.). (2021). Dialog Systems: A Perspective from Language, Logic and Computation. Springer International Publishing. [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61438-6] https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030614379 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/64759 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/823907 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Springer