A web-based system for delivering information about user's mental health

This paper describes a web-based application for affective modeling and delivering information about user’s mental health and emotional characteristics. The component for affective user modeling is based on the standard test in psychiatry and clinical psychology Emotions Profile Index. Since the assessment of the emotional state involves imprecision and uncertainty fuzzy decision-making techniques are used to formulate presentations in the form of informative paragraphs taken from the predefined knowledge base. Utility function is defined over the profile attributes and the social context. For delivering information about affective profiles agent based interface is created that covers subject-agent and psychiatrist-agent forms of interaction. This approach contributes to the research efforts related to personalized assistance and health care in the e-Health sector