How are you?: Introducing stress-based text tailoring

Simone Balloccu; Ehud Reiter; Alexandra Johnstone; Claire Fyfe

How are you? Introducing stress-based text tailoring

Simone Balloccu, Ehud Reiter, Alexandra Johnstone, Claire Fyfe

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Abstract

Can stress affect not only your life but also how you read and interpret a text? Healthcare has shown evidence of such dynamics and in this short paper we discuss customising texts based on user stress level, as it could represent a critical factor when it comes to user engagement and behavioural change. We first show a real-world example in which user behaviour is influenced by stress, then, after discussing which tools can be employed to assess and measure it, we propose an initial method for tailoring the document by exploiting complexity reduction and affect enforcement. The result is a short and encouraging text which requires less commitment to be read and understood. We believe this work in progress can raise some interesting questions on a topic that is often overlooked in NLG.

Original language	English
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 17 Aug 2020
Event	IntelLanG : Intelligent Information Processing and Natural Language Generation - Santiago de Compostela, Spain Duration: 7 Sep 2020 → 7 Sep 2020 https://intellang.github.io/

Conference

Conference	IntelLanG
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Santiago de Compostela
Period	7/09/20 → 7/09/20
Internet address	https://intellang.github.io/

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