Multimodal Analysis of Child-Horse Therapeutic Interactions Using Vision-Language Models in an Australian Aboriginal Equine-Assisted Learning Program for Social and Emotional Well-Being: Development and Evaluation Study

Karma Dechen Dema   ¹ , MIT ;   Juli Coffin   ^{2 *} , PhD, Prof Dr ;   Sharmila Vaz   ³ , PhD ;   Guanjin Wang   ^{1 *} , PhD, Prof Dr ;   Craig Olsson   ^{4, 5} , PhD, Prof Dr

¹ School of Information Technology, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia

² School of Population Health, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

³ The Centre for Social Impact, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

⁴ Deakin Lifespan Institute, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia

⁵ Melbourne Children’s LifeCourse Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital Campus, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

*these authors contributed equally