Smart Apps to Smarter AI: The Evolution of Psychoeducation
September 18 @ 16:00 - 17:00
Title:
Smart Apps to Smarter AI: The Evolution of Psychoeducation
Date:
18 September 2026 (Friday)
Time:
4:00 to 5:00 pm (UTC+8, Hong Kong Time)
Mode:
Hybrid (Face-to-face and Online via Zoom)
Venue:
C-LP-06, STEM Innovation Hub and Zoom Meeting
Speaker:
Professor Yasser Khazaal
Professor of Addiction Psychiatry in the Department of Addiction Medicine and the Faculty of Biology and Medicine, The University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Yasser Khazaal (ORCID: 0000-0002-8549-6599) is Full Professor of Addiction Psychiatry at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and Associate Professor at the University of Montreal, Canada. He is a member of the board of Addiction Medicine at Lausanne University Hospital and directs the WHO Collaborating Centre for innovation in the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders and behavioural addictions. Among his current research interests are digital well-being, problematic smartphone and social media use, and the design and evaluation of digital and AI-supported tools for mental health.
Moderator:
Professor Guandong Xu
Chair Professor of Artificial Intelligence,
Assistant Vice President (AI and Education Innovation),
Director of University Research Facility of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence,
The Education University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
Smartphones, apps and social media now mediate how young people learn, connect and pay attention, and are where they turn for support with mental health and everyday difficulties — even as some patterns of use undermine well-being. Taking digital well-being as its case, this talk traces how psychoeducation has evolved in response. It revisits digital well-being as more than the absence of digital ill-being, drawing on recent work clarifying which of its dimensions matter most, then reviews today’s mHealth applications and psychoeducational supports. It closes on AI-enabled psychoeducation: how artificial intelligence is shifting the way people are supported in using digital technologies for, rather than against, their own well-being, what this demands of user-centred design, and which research questions now sit at the intersection of education, technology and health.
Keywords:
digital well-being; problematic smartphone use; psychoeducation; mHealth; EdTech; artificial intelligence
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