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There is an increasing number of research initiatives that utilize modern technology in order to support patients in maintaining or regaining a healthy mental state. Advanced technological solutions have been exploited for treating depression, anxiety disorders, and for coping with stress. This is of utmost importance to provide people with higher quality of life and also to shift a part of monitoring tasks from therapists and caregivers to unobtrusive technological systems. In addition they can provide the patient with self-guidance possibilities that enable a more easily accessible form of treatment. Efforts have started with Internet-based self-help therapies and have continued with an increasing use of ubiquitous computing for providing effective solutions for maintaining and improving mental health. However, technology is always moving towards further miniaturization and increased computational power, constantly challenging researchers to creatively exploit new potentials in order to mitigate the prevalence of mental disorders which affect around a quarter of all people at some point in their life. Therefore, there is a significant need to have platforms for exchanging the latest achievements and motivating further advances in this research area. This Special Issue on "Technology for Mental Health" contains four significant contributions provided by researchers from both psychological and technological fields that share the same interest of improving both the treatment of mental disorders and wellbeing of healthy individuals. Wolters et al. describe a promising approach for managing data in the treatment of depression. The system consists of the three components, namely Personal Monitoring System, Virtual agent with an avatar interface, and Decision Support System. The authors describe how the complex data is managed and also they discuss related ethical issues. The proposed solution is interoperable with other applications such as Electronic Health Records. Te

We propose an autonomous control systemfor Aerial Service Vehicles capable of performing inspection tasks in buildings and industrial plants. In this paper, we present the applicative domain, the high-level control architecture along with some empirical results. The system is assessed on real-world and simulated scenarios representing industrial environments

There is an increasing number of research initiatives that utilize modern technology in order to support patients in maintaining or regaining a healthy mental state. Advanced technological solutions have been exploited for treating depression, anxiety disorders, and for coping with stress. This is of utmost importance to provide people with higher quality of life and also to shift a part of monitoring tasks from therapists and caregivers to unobtrusive technological systems. Efforts have started with Internet-based self-help therapies, but recently systems make an increasing use of ambient intelligence, pervasive computing, smart phones and sensor systems. Their common goal is to provide effective solutions for maintaining and improving mental health. This workshop is held for the second year (following the first MindCare workshop organized as part of Pervasive Health Conference, Dublin, 2011) aiming to bring together researchers and practitioners from technological fields (such as computer science, artificial intelligence, and information systems) but also from medical and psychological disciplines that share the same interest of strengthening or maintaining mental health by exploiting pervasive computing solutions. The goal of MindCare workshop is to exchange ideas aiming to support synergy of the two domains for further progress in this field. The program of the workshop encompasses a total of 14 papers: 10 full papers, 2 short papers, and 2 posters, covering a range of topics and disciplines in the theme described above. We wish to thank all the authors for their admirable scientific works which reflect both the cutting edge technologies and the most prominent psychological approaches thus contributing to innovative ways of employing technology in favor of mental health. In order to establish such a high quality program, the papers underwent a rigorous reviewing process by a program committee that consisted of world renowned experts in the related fields. We are