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

Prof. Dr. Petra Wagner, project leader of A02 and C06.

26.07.2024

Petra Wagner as keynote speaker at MMSYM 2024

At the second International Symposium on Multimodal Communication (MMSYM 2024) in Frankfurt, Bielefeld Professor Dr Petra Wagner, project leader of A02, will give a keynote speech. The lecture on “The multimodal expression of (non-)understanding in dyadic explanations - some lessons learned” will focus on the research of the A02 project.

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24.07.2024

Publication on the understanding of algorithms

In his current publication entitled ‘Algorithms: Technology Culture Politics’, Professor Dr Tobias Matzner, project leader of B03 und B06, takes up more than two decades of critical research on algorithms and builds on it.

Stefan Lazarov (A02) and Josephine B. Fisher (A01) present their findings at CogSic 2024.

22.07.2024

Research presentations at CogSci 2024

CogSci 2024, the largest conference for cognitive science worldwide, will take place in Rotterdam from 24 to 27 July 2024. TRR scientists will also be represented by two contributions this year. Stefan Lazarov (A02) and Josephine B. Fisher (A01) will present their research on site in the Netherlands.

Helen Beierling, doctoral researcher in project B05.

17.07.2024

Helen Beierling receives Best Student Paper Award at RSS Conference in Delft

Helen Beierling from project B05 has been honored with the Best Student Paper Award at the workshop "Mechanisms for Mapping Human Input to Robots – From Robot Learning to Shared Control/Autonomy" held during the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Conference in Delft.

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Events

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: Discourse 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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