| Vol-4061 urn:nbn:de:0074-4061-X Copyright © 2025 for the individual papers by the papers' authors. Copyright © 2025 for the volume as a collection by its editors. This volume and its papers are published under the Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

# MAI-XAI 2025
Multimodal, Affective and Interactive eXplainable AI 2025

### Proceedings of the Second Multimodal, Affective and Interactive eXplainable AI Workshop (MAI-XAI 2025)
co-located with the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence 25-30 October 2025 (ECAI 2025)

### Bologna, Italy, October 26, 2025.

Edited by

### Philipp Cimiano 1
Fosca Giannotti 2
Tim Miller 3
Barbara Hammer 1
Alejandro Catalá Bolos 4
Peter Flach 5
Jose M. Alonso-Moral 4

1 Bielefeld University, Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld, Germany
2 Scuola Normale Superiore, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory (KDD Lab), Pisa, Italy
3 University of Queensland, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queensland, Australia
4 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (CiTIUS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
5 University of Bristol, School of Computer Science, Bristol, United Kingdom

## Table of Contents

- Preface
  Summary: There were 18 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 9 papers were accepted for this volume, 8 as regular papers and 1 as short paper.

### Regular Papers

- Evaluating the Reliability of Large Language Model-Generated Explanations in Dialogue-Based XAI
  Isabel Feustel, Niklas Rach, Wolfgang Minker, Stefan Ultes
- Influence of Prior and Task Generated Emotions on XAI Explanation Retention and Understanding
  Birte Richterl, Christian Schütze, Anna Aksonova, Julian Leichert, Britta Wrede
- Explaining Bayesian Networks Reasoning to the General Public: Insights from the User Study
  Nikolay Babakov, Ehud Reiter, Alberto Bugarín
- Am I Being Treated Fairly? A Conceptual Framework for Individuals to Ascertain Fairness
  Juliett Suárez-Ferreira, Marija Slavkovik, Jorge Casillas
- Adaptive XAI in High Stakes Environments: Modeling Swift Trust with Multimodal Feedback in Human AI Teams
  Nishani Fernando, Bahareh Nakisa, Adnan Ahmad, Mohammad Naim Rastgoo
- Unimodal vs Multimodal Coupling in Emotion Recognition: An Explainable Framework using Physiological States and Transitions
  Anubhav, Kantaro Fujiwara
- Exploring Structural Brain Connectivity in Term and Preterm Infants with Explainable AI and Fuzzy Logic
  Katherine Birch, Alberto Durán-López, Daniel Bolaños-Martinez, Chandresh Pravin, Maria Bermudez-Edo, Roman Bauer, Suparna De
- On Modifying the Perception of a Neural Network
  Manuel de Sousa Ribeiro, João Leite

### Short Papers

- XAI in Medical Image Report Generation: Unlocking Stress Testing as a Responsible AI Practice for Multimodal Models
  Flávia Carvalhido, Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Vitor Cerqueira, Carlos Soares

2025-10-07: submitted by Philipp Cimiano and Olivia Sanchez-Graillet, metadata incl. bibliographic data published under Creative Commons CC0
2025-10-09: published on CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073) |valid HTML5|