  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.
