MindOnly has developed an Artificial Intelligence tool that can assess your attachment style. This Malta-based research project, supported by Xjenza, has created a platform that reads non-verbal cues to better understand users. This may prove to be a useful personal development tool and, crucially, a valuable resource for mental health practitioners.

We are a product of our upbringing. Our relationships with our parents, or the lack thereof, can be pivotal in shaping expectations for each subsequent relationship. This process begins within a year of our birth, through pre-verbal bonds with primary caregivers. If these formative attachments are traumatising, they disorder how we connect with others. Our understanding of this is in its own infancy. Attachment theory is less than a century old, a mere blink of an eye next to the history of generational trauma. It is utilised by mental health practitioners such as psychologists and counsellors, either to better understand causal factors in people’s mental health issues or to maintain a healthy, secure relationship between therapist and patient.

Broad public understanding of attachment theory is brand new, surging into popular consciousness via social media virality. We want to understand ourselves, and to repair what we can. MindOnly is meeting this demand. They have recently concluded a research project on an AI-based video assessment tool, with the support of Xjenza Malta. Their project, titled ‘Mental Health Care Automated Video Interview Diagnosis with AI, has culminated in a virtual interviewer that reads non-verbal cues, such as facial expressions, to better determine a patient’s attachment style. This empathic AI is an example of what could be the future of psychotherapy – affective computing.

The project ‘Mental Health Care Automated Video Interview Diagnosis with AI’ was financed by Xjenza Malta through the FUSION: R&I Technology Development Programme LITE.

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