Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TRR 318 "Constructing Explainability"

Developing Explanations Together

Often, technical explanations presuppose knowledge about AI and are therefore difficult to comprehend. In the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318 “Constructing Explainability”, researchers are developing ways to involve users in the explanation process and thus create co-constructive explanations. Therefore, the interdisciplinary research team investigates the principles, mechanisms, and social practices of explaining and how these can be taken into account in the design of AI systems. The goal of the project is to make explanatory processes comprehensible and to create understandable assistance systems.

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News

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03.05.2024

Ein Showroom für die Zukunft von Therapie und Pflege

Wie die Erkenntnisse aus der Forschung des TRR praktisch angewandt werden können, wird im Showroom "Interaktive Assistenz in Medizin und Pflege" gezeigt. Dort werden künstlich intelligente Technologien vorgestellt, welche bei der Diagnose und Therapie eingesetzt werden können.

26.04.2024

TRR-Workshop brings world-leading experts to Paderborn University

Leading international researchers in the field of ethics of explainable AI will come together at Paderborn University in mid-May. The workshop "Ethics And Normativity of Explainable AI", organized by project B06 of the TRR 318, will take place from May 15 to 17.

26.04.2024

TRR research to be presented at international workshop

Two researchers from the Transregio are traveling to Poland from 2 to 4 May to take part in the Behavioural Dynamics in Social Interactions workshop. In Krakow, researchers from two sub-projects from the “A - Explaining” project area will present their research on adaptive explanatory dialogs.

Dr. David Johnson is the leader of the new research group.

16.04.2024

New research group on explainable artificial intelligence and its impact on human trust

Bielefeld University is funding a new independent research group on explainable artificial intelligence and and its impact towards over-relying on AI-assisted decision-making for three years.

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Events

08.05.2024 - 08.05.2024

Online Lunch Talk with Dr. Alexander Krüger from Techniker Krankenkasse on 08.05.24, 12-13 h

05.06.2024 - 05.06.2024

Online Lunch Talk with Martin Noack, from Bertelsmannstiftung on 05.06.24, 13-14 h

12.06.2024 - 14.06.2024

Writing Retreat (12.-14.06.24) led by Andrea Karsten

01.07.2024 - 01.07.2024

Online Talk "In a nutshell: Natural Language Processing" (01.07.24, 14-15 h) led by Henning Wachsmuth

23.08.2024 - 23.08.2024

Writing Day in Paderborn (23.08.24) led by Andrea Karsten

02.10.2024 - 02.10.2024

Online Talk “In a Nutshell: Discurse Analysis" (02.10.24) led by Andrea Karsten

08.11.2024 - 08.11.2024

Writing Day in Bielefeld (08.11.24) led by Andrea Karsten

20.11.2024 - 20.11.2024

Online Talk “In a nutshell: Intro/Retrospective survey methods” (20.11.24, 14-15 h) led by Andrea Karsten

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Projects

The areas of research included in TRR 318 are divided into three categories. These three areas in turn are subdivided into interdisciplinary subprojects. Project INF provides an overarching research structure; Project Ö facilitates public relations and outreach; Project Z addresses administrative, organizational, and financial matters; and the RTG Project provides a framework for educating doctoral and post-doctoral researchers.

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Members

The co-construction of explanations is investigated by a total of 22 project leaders with about 50 scientific assistants from linguistics, psychology, media science, sociology, economics, computer science and philosophy at the Bielefeld and Paderborn universities.

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Workshops for AI beginners

TRR 318 offers hands-on workshops for people with an interest in artificial intelligence and no previous experience in this field. The workshops are aimed at school classes, Stakeholders and medical students.

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Networking opportunities

The Integrated Research Training Group structures the further education of PhD students and postdocs. We warmly invite external PhD students to express their interest in a visiting fellowship in our Collaborative Research Center!

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Participation in scientific studies

Many subprojects of TRR 318 investigate human-machine and human-human communication in real-time situations. Interested people can participate in studies and in this way contribute to research.

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Media

What is Explainable Artificial Intelligence? And how does one research it? The researchers at TRR 318 deal with these questions every day. Through various channels (newsletter, podcast, etc.), we want to give an insight into our research, always with the opportunity to ask questions.

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