AI for Emotional Wellbeing @HKUST
情绪智能实验室
Welcome to the AI for Emotional Wellbeing Lab (A Emo Lab). We are committed to developing AI-driven solutions to enhance human emotional wellbeing, with a focus on supporting the mental and social aspects of human behavior. We believe that advancing human emotional wellbeing can create substantial economic value for individuals, organizations, and society.
Faculty Directors
​Director
Zijun (June) Shi
Associate Professor
Business and Management
Humanities and Social Science
Core Members
Research Themes
AI for Human Mental Wellbeing
We investigate how AI can empower mental health services for human society. For instance, we examine whether and how LLMs can provide psychotherapy on par with trained human professionals; we also investigate how AI and human therapists should work together to better serve clients.
AI for Human Social Wellbeing
We investigate how AI can be leveraged to serve human users' social needs in various contexts, such as companionship, social media content consumption and creation, and conversation skill enhancement for service providers.
Social and Emotional Intelligence of AI
AI's emotional intelligence is the key for a sound support for human social and emotional well-being. We investigate the science behind the emotional intelligence of AI and explore how to improve it for relevant applications.