Developing Explanations Together

This year's series of Public Talks of the Transregio “Constructing Explainability” (TRR 318) focused on the use and effects of chat GPT technologies. The lecture by Professor Dr. Hendrik Buschmeier on “Trust and mistrust in dealing with AI chatbots” has now been published as part of the Bielefeld Lectures series and is available online.

On 13 September, Dr Christian Schulz will take part in an interdisciplinary workshop at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill (USA). The workshop, entitled ‘Sociotechnical Consequences of AI: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Ethical, Organizational, Social, and Computational Dimensions’, will bring together international experts to discuss the multi-layered effects of artificial intelligence (AI).

TRR-Projektleaders, Professor Dr Heike M. Buhl and Professor Dr Ingrid Scharlau, organized a symposium at the 33rd International Congress of Psychology (ICP 2024) in Prague, bringing together experts to discuss the co-constructive nature of explaining. The event highlighted how metaphors and partner dynamics influence the effectiveness of explanations, with insights from didactics and educational psychology.

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.