HARMONY 2026 Program
This program is tentative and subject to change.
Thu 6 AugDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
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09:30 - 10:45 | Understanding & Verifying AI for Mental HealthHARMONY 2026 at Carnegie Room 1 Chair(s): Ping Wang Stevens Institute of Technology This session is designed as a conversation starter for networking. Each talk is 10 minutes max, lightning-talk style, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A. Presenters are encouraged to go beyond their accepted work, including sharing their future vision, the expertise they bring to AI + mental health, and the complementary expertise they are looking for in interdisciplinary collaborations. A great networking opportunity. Come join us! | ||
09:30 15mTalk | Toward Contemplative LLM: A Modular Framework for Evaluating and Enhancing LLM Alignment in Mental Health HARMONY 2026 Asher Sprigler Purdue University, Yang-Yang Feng Washington University in St. Louis, Iftach Amir Washington University in St. Louis, Jonathan E. Bogard Washington University in St. Louis, Todd S Braver Washington University in St. Louis, Yi Ding Purdue University, David Kinney Washington University in St Louis, Yixue Zhao Yixue Research Institute Pre-print | ||
09:45 15mTalk | AIM: A Framework for Understanding How AI Literacy Shapes Software Practitioners' Mental Well-Being HARMONY 2026 | ||
10:00 15mTalk | The Effect of AI Feedback on Confidence and Self-Assessment HARMONY 2026 | ||
10:15 15mTalk | Human-AI Social Bonds: Evaluating Connection with Multimodal Synchrony HARMONY 2026 Grace Qiyuan Miao University of California Los Angeles, Yanru (Joyce) Jiang University of California Los Angeles, Yizhou (Louisa) Lyu University of California Los Angeles, Rick Dale University of California Los Angeles, Matthew Lieberman University of California Los Angeles | ||
10:30 15mTalk | Verifiable AI-Assisted Mental Health Diagnosis via Logical Reasoning HARMONY 2026 Brian Hyeongseok Kim University of Southern California Link to publication Pre-print | ||
10:45 - 11:00 | Morning BreakHARMONY 2026 at Carnegie Room 1 Enjoy a nice morning break :) Come back for more interesting talks on the important topic of AI + mental health! | ||
11:00 - 12:30 | From Prediction to InterventionHARMONY 2026 at Carnegie Room 1 Chair(s): Xipeng Shen North Carolina State University This session is designed as a conversation starter for networking. Each talk is 10 minutes max, lightning-talk style, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A. Presenters are encouraged to go beyond their accepted work, including sharing their future vision, the expertise they bring to AI + mental health, and the complementary expertise they are looking for in interdisciplinary collaborations. A great networking opportunity. Come join us! | ||
11:00 15mTalk | On-Device Language Models for Privacy-Preserving Stress Prediction: A Multimodal Evaluation on Mobile Health HARMONY 2026 Ibukunoluwa Soyebo University of Southern California, Alyssa Donawa University of Southern California, Rodrigo Aguilar Barrios University of Southern California, Brice Patchou University of Southern California, Corey Baker University of Southern California | ||
11:15 15mTalk | Optimizing Symptom Surveys with Machine Learning to Predict PTSD One Year Post-trauma HARMONY 2026 Charles Prince Case Western Reserve University, Hong Xie University of Toledo, Stephen Grider University of Toledo, Xin Wang University of Toledo, Kevin S. Xu Case Western Reserve University | ||
11:30 15mTalk | Towards LLM-Enhanced Cross-Domain Transfer Learning for Clinical Personality Prediction HARMONY 2026 | ||
11:45 15mTalk | Contemplative AI for Youth Stress: A New Paradigm for Digital Mental Health Support HARMONY 2026 Eden Wu North Allegheny Intermediate High School | ||
12:00 15mTalk | Moodoodle: Supporting Emotional Self-Reflection Through Generative Soundscapes HARMONY 2026 | ||
12:15 15mTalk | Not All Nudges Land: Behavioral Controllability and Elaboration Quality in AI-Supported Journaling HARMONY 2026 Nadia Mehjabin University of Virginia, Henry Kautz University of Virginia, Subigya Nepal University of Virginia | ||
12:30 - 14:00 | LunchHARMONY 2026 at Carnegie Room 1 Enjoy your lunch! Hopefully you now know who to have lunch with after attending HARMONY morning sessions :) | ||
14:00 - 15:30 | Keynote + PanelHARMONY 2026 at Carnegie Room 1 Keynote speaker: David Creswell, William S. Dietrich II Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Carnegie Mellon University; CEO, Equa Health Keynote title: Digital mindfulness meditation training, respiration tracking AI, and health Panelist: David Creswell (keynote speaker); Rayid Ghani, Distinguished Career Professor, Joint Appointment in Machine Learning Department and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; Josh Oltmanns, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis; Licensed Clinical Psychologist; Andrew Begel, Associate Professor, Software and Societal Systems, Carnegie Mellon University; Affiliate Professor, Information School, University of Washington; Previously Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. See speaker details here: https://conf.researchr.org/home/harmony-2026#Speakers | ||
15:30 - 15:45 | Afternoon BreakHARMONY 2026 at Carnegie Room 1 Enjoy your afternoon break :) Recharge and come back for networking opportunities to spark interdisciplinary collaborations for impactful projects! | ||
15:45 - 16:45 | Round Table DiscussionHARMONY 2026 at Carnegie Room 1 This session is designed for tailored, small-group discussions. Participants are grouped by mutual interests, creating a focused space to exchange ideas, find collaborators, and go deeper on the topics they care about most. Discussion topics & leaders below (we will accept volunteers to lead topics of your interests on the spot!):
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16:45 - 17:30 | Award Ceremony & Next StepsHARMONY 2026 at Carnegie Room 1 We’ll announce the Best Paper Award! Plus exciting next steps for HARMONY beyond the workshop day. Spoiler alert: we’ll share a white paper based on the discussions from the workshop, and HARMONY participants will have the opportunity to contribute as invited co-authors. | ||