Explaining the multimodal display of stress in clinical explanations (A06)

• Subject Area: Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ; Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics ; Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438445824

We investigated the influence of stress and mental health conditions in explanatory settings. We determined how signals related to understanding differ intra-individually under stress and inter-individually for people with social interaction conditions. In the second phase, we will develop techniques to train clinicians to detect signs of stress during explanations. These insights allow for adaptation of explanations according to EE’s feedback, while taking into account the explanation context. This increases the generalizability of future explanation techniques developed in TRR to make them more inclusive.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 318: Constructing explainability
• Applicant Institution: Universität Paderborn
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Hanna Drimalla; Professorin Dr. Petra Wagner, since 1/2026