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

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

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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Dimitry Mindlin, researcher in project B01.

A publication by Transregio researchers will be presented to an expert audience at the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering 2024 (ICSE 2024) in Lisbon.

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Nils Klowait, researcher in project Ö

A year ago, sociologist Nils Klowait asked ChatGPT to program a game. Among other things, this was intended to illustrate how ChatGPT could enable people without programming experience to master a range of technical tasks. Nils Klowait is now using the game for his research. In this interview, he reports on how he and his colleagues were able to present their initial results at the UCLA Co-Operative Action Lab.

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© Universität Bielefeld

Researchers of Project A03 investigated how advice of a decision support system is accepted by users. The findings are now published.

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Events

26.04.2024 - 26.04.2024

Writing Day in Bielefeld led by Andrea Karsten (26.04.24)

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08.05.2024 - 08.05.2024

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

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05.06.2024 - 05.06.2024

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

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12.06.2024 - 14.06.2024

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

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01.07.2024 - 01.07.2024

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

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23.08.2024 - 23.08.2024

Writing Day in Paderborn (23.08.24) led by Andrea Karsten

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02.10.2024 - 02.10.2024

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

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08.11.2024 - 08.11.2024

Writing Day in Bielefeld (08.11.24) led by Andrea Karsten

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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

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.

Alle Projekte

Area A - Explaining

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Area B - Social practice

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Area C - Representing and computing explanations

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Intersecting projects

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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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Questions about AI

Artifical Intelligence is still raising many questions. We are trying to address these and answer them.

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Newsletter

Subscribe to our Newsletter to keep updated about research and recent events of TRR 318.

Speaker

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Prof. Dr. Katharina Rohlfing

Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318

Project Leader A01, A05, Z

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Co-Speaker

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Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano

Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318

Project Leader B01, C05, INF

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