Patrick Gebhard

Dr. Patrick Gebhard is a researcher at the Cognitive Assistance Systems department of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), focusing on affective computing, human-computer interaction, and psychological modeling. His work bridges computational linguistics, mental health, and wearable technologies.

• Key projects: UBIDENZ (digital empathetic therapy assistance), MITHOS (mixed-reality teacher training), SocialWear (interactive smart fashion), MindBot (mental health in Industry 4.0), EmmA (emotional coaching avatars).
• Recent research explores emotion regulation strategies, psychodynamic conflict recognition via LLMs, and multimodal sign language corpora development.
• Collaborates with institutions like Saarland University, contributing to conferences such as CLPsych, LREC-COLING, and ACII.

  Contact: Patrick.Gebhard@dfki.de