International Digital Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference (DMHW 2026):

Where: Glasgow (United Kingdom)
When: June 17-19, 2026
Mental ill health is prevalent, and citizens need more support to prevent mental ill health as well as supporting their treatment and management of their mental health and wellbeing. With traditional services being under pressure, there is a need for more research to investigate the use of digital technologies to support the mental health and wellbeing of people.

However, we must also bear in mind that the implementation of digital technologies cannot solve all our problems. Nevertheless, digital technologies often come with benefits such as being somewhat sustainable, ubiquitous and being accessible 24/7. This conference is looking to attract novel work involving digital mental health interventions, e.g. mental healthcare apps, chatbots, web apps, wearables, sensors, and virtual or augmented reality tools to support a person’s mental health and wellbeing.

We also want to attract data science, machine learning and AI research that is applied to the mental health domain – especially given the wealth of real-world mental health data that is available, which can provide new knowledge discoveries and insights.

By embracing diverse disciplines, the conference aims to foster collaboration that drives holistic and culturally adaptable digital mental health solutions. This approach highlights the importance of designing tools that account for the complexities of individual and collective environments, from smart city infrastructures to culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Thus integrating insights and innovations from a wide range of fields—including psychology, data science, urban planning, public health, linguistics, and AI, among others.

Ultimately, the conference will serve as a welcoming space for researchers, practitioners, and innovators from all backgrounds, encouraging them to co-create a future where digital mental health and wellbeing technologies are accessible and relevant across various contexts and communities. We hope to see you in Glasgow!


Important dates:
Submission deadline: the contributions can be submitted between February 1st, 2026 and March 30th, 2026 and will be reviewed on a rolling basis (the review starts as soon as the contribution is submitted);
Notification of Outcome: the Authors will receive a notification of outcome (Accepted or Rejected) within two weeks from submission;
Conference dates: June 17-19, 2026.

A contribution must include the following elements:
Title
Abstract (max 500 words)
List of authors (including affiliations)
Any submission that does not include the three element above will be desk rejected.

Topics (the list is not exhaustive):
Digital mental health interventions;
Health apps, web apps, and software in mental health;
Data science, analytics, and machine learning in mental health;
Speech analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and smart speaker applications for mental health;
Conversational user interfaces and chatbots for mental health;
Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in mental health;
Web technologies in mental health;
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) applications in mental health ;
Digital Transformation of mental health services;
Digital mental health and social prescriptions;
Young people in mental health;
Digital mental health interventions for marginalised groups;
Digital storytelling, design fictions, interaction design, graphic design for mental health service co-creation;
Digital citizenship in mental health;
Smart cities and their impact on citizen’s wellbeing;
Digital mental health employee wellbeing;
Addressing engagement and retention in digital mental health services;
Digital mental health service co-design and modelling;
Sensors and wearable technologies in mental health;
Affective computing and positive computing;
Databases and datasets in mental health;
Cyber-psychology and digital wellbeing;
Digital mental health care models;
Large Language Models (LLMs) in mental health;
Ethics in digital mental health;
Co-production and co-creation of digital mental health services;
Digital mental health as adjunctive therapy;
Using gamification approaches in digital mental health interventions;
Evidence-based approaches for mental health services;
Developing policy and practice around digital mental health interventions;
Regulation, compliance, quality assurance and standards in digital mental health service design;
Design and evaluation of digitally supported content, therapies and interventions.

Authors of accepted abstracts are required to register for the conference and to present their work at the conference. Abstracts will be peer reviewed and accepted abstracts will appear online in the conference proceedings.
The conference organisers are negotiating with the Journal of Behaviour & Information Technology to edit a special issue that will include an extended version of selected conference contributions.

More information on the conference website and X:
https://dmhw.net/
https://x.com/DMHW2026