Scientific Conferences

Since 2022, the TRR 318 has been organizing an annual international scientific conference. TRR researchers are also represented at external international scientific conferences with lectures, panel discussions and workshops. Below is a selection of upcoming conferences, with information on past conferences further down the page.

 

TRR 318 Con­fer­ences

2025

Contextualizing Explanations

The 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations was specifically dedicated to the question of how explanations of AI decisions can be contextualized.

2023

Measuring Understanding

The second conference in 2023 titled “Measuring Understanding” dealt with the evaluation and measurement of understanding in various contexts.

2022

Explaining Machines

The first conference took place in 2022 under the title “Explaining Machines” and focused on the social science perspective on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI).

Up­com­ing Con­fer­ences

4th World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence

01.07. - 03.07.2026, Fortaleza (Brazil) | Projects A03 and C05 will be represented at the conference and will present their research.

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Up­com­ing Work­shops

2nd ICRA 2026 Workshop on Robot Ethics

01.06.2026, Vienna (Austria) | Ethical, Legal and User Perspectives in Robotics & Automation

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Pre­vi­ous Con­fer­ences

KI2025 - 48th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence

16.09 - 19.09.2025, Potsdam (Germany) | Prof Dr Barbara Hammer, project leader of C01 and C03, was a keynote speaker at the 48th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

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2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) Prague

16.09. - 19.09. 2025, Prague (Czech Republic) | Katharina Rohlfing was part of the organizing committee, and TRR members presented their research.

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Bialogue 2025

03.09. - 05.09.2025, Bielefeld (Germany) | TRR members were part of the organizing committee for Bialogue 2025, the 29th edition of the SemDial workshop series.

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3rd TRR 318 Conference "Contextualizing Explanations"

17.06. - 18.06.2025, Bielefeld University | The third international conference held by TRR 318. The conference is about the question of how explanations can be contextualized.

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World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence

09.07 - 11.07.2025, Istanbul (Turkey) | TRR members participated in the World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence.

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NeurIPS 2024

10.12 - 15.12.2024, Vancouver (Canada) | TRR-Members took part in the Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

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26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

04.11 - 08.11.2024, San José (Costa Rica) | Researchers of TRR 318 participate with a workshop on multimodal co-construction of explanations.

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27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

19.11 - 24.11.2024, Santiago de Compostella (Spain) | Members of TRR 318 will organize and participate in a workshop

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MMSYM 2024

25.09 - 27.09.2024, Frankfurt (Germany) | Project leader Petra Wagner will be a keynote speaker at the second International Symposium on Multimodal Communication.

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ECML PKDD 2024

09.09 - 13.09.24, Vilnius (Lithuania) | The TRR takes part in European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) 2024 by organizing a workshop.

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2nd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence

17.07 - 19.07.24, Valletta (Malta) | TRR researchers are attending the 2nd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence.

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DataNinja sAIOnARA 2024 Conference

25.06 - 27.06.24, Bielefeld | TRR-Researchers are involved with the organization and TRR-Project leader Henning Wachsmuth will be a keynote speaker.

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1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Robust Argumentation Machines

05.06 - 07.06.24, Bielefeld (Germany) | TRR researcher Henning Wachsmuth will be a keynote speaker at the 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Robust Argumentation Machines.

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KI-Forschung trifft Praxis

23.05.24, Bielefeld | Mitglieder des TRR halten Vorträge zur Nutzung und den Herausforderungen von der KI-Nutzung in der praktischen Anwendung.

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46. International Conference on Software Engineering 2024

14.04 - 20.04.2024, Lisbon (Portugal) | Researchers of TRR 318 present a publication at a workshop.

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40. Forum Kommunikationskultur 2023

17.-19.11.2023, Bielefeld University | TRR researchers conduct an interaction study on which visitors can participate.

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Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation

15.-17.11.2023 Bielefeld | TRR researchers give a presentation and open an AI-showroom, which can be visited during the event.

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2. TRR 318 Conference Measuring Understanding

06.-07.11.2023, Paderborn University | The second international conference held by TRR 318.

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4th Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction

18- 23.09.2023 Chęciny (Polen) | Josephine Beryl Fisher (A01), Vivien Lohmer (A04) and Amit Singh (A05) were at the 4th edition of the Summer School in Social Human-Robot-Interaction at the European Centre for Geological Education in Chęciny, Poland.

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NII Shonan Meeting

18.-21.09.2023 Kanagawa (Japan) | TRR researchers organize and contribute with talks.

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DynXAI Workshop at European Conference on ML and PKDD

18.09.2023, Turin (Italy) | The TRR participats with a workshop: „Explainable Artificial Intelligence: From Static to Dynamic“

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The 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue

16.-17.08.2023 Maribor (Slovenia) | TRR researchers from subproject A01 are participating with a talk.

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1st World Conference on eXplainable AI (XAI)

26.-28.07.2023, Lissabon (Portugal) | tba

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re:publica 2023 - Festival for the digital society

05.-07.06.2023, Berlin | The Transregio is represented at re:publica with an installation. Here, visitors can experience AI at eye level.

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65th Meeting of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP)

26.-29.03.2023, Trier | TRR researchers will participate on site with presentations and posters.

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NII Shonan Meeting „Natural Interaction with Humanoid Robots"

23.-26.01.2023, Kanagawa (Japan) | TRR researchers on site with presentation on human-robot interactions, and TRR research.

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27th German Congress of Germanists 2022

25.-28.09.2022, Paderborn University | TRR 318 on site with panel on "Dialogical and Social Role in Explanatory Processes".

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Interdisciplinary Conference "Data Society"

20.-22.09.2022, Paderborn University | Talk by Katharina Rohlfing; Panels with poster of the subprojects A05, Ö, C02 and A03; Poster presentation of subproject A03 in the HNF.

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2022 International Conference on Development and Learning

12.-15.09.2022, London | TRR researchers featured with workshop on "Better understanding scaffolding mechanisms to advance research on (explainable) AI".

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52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society

10.-15.09.2022, Hildesheim | TRR Scientist on site with presentations on "elements of explaining".

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CogSci 2022 Cognitive Diversity in Toronto

CogSci 2022 Cognitive Diversity in Toronto | TRR poster presentation about "Explain with, rather than explain to: How explainees shape their learning".

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17. IFCS „Classification & Data Science in the Digital Age“

19.-23.07.2022, Porto | TRR researchers featured with contributions on Interpretable Machine Learning and organization of the invited session on XAI.

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1. TRR 318 Conference Explaining Machines

23.-24.06.2022, Bielefeld University | Lectures and talks with international researchers focusing on social science perspectives on XAI.

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Pre­vi­ous Work­shops

XAI-Ed 2026 Workshop

27.04.2026, Bergen (Norway) | From explainable to explaining systems - the role of social XAI in learning analytics and educational technology

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Workshop SemDial 25

03.09 - 05.09.25, Bielefeld (Germany) | The focus of this workshop will be the investigation of prerequisites for meaningful interaction between humans and artificial conversational agents.

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Multimodal Co-Construction of Explanations with XAI Workshop

04.11.24, San José (Costa Rica) | This workshops aims to bring together the disciplines of Explainable AI (XAI) and Multimodal Communication. It will be held at ACM ICMI 2024 in a hybrid format.

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MAI - XAI Multimodal, Affective and Interactive eXplainable AI

19.10 - 20.10.24, Santiago de Compostela (Spain) | Towards designing systems that can develop an engaging and natural explanatory interaction with users, members of the TRR are co-organising a workshop on multimodal, affective and interactive XAI (MAI-XAI) as part of this year’s edition of the ECAI in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

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TempXAI: Explainable AI for Time Series and Data Streams Tutorial-Workshop

09.09 - 13.09.24, Vilnius (Lithuania) | This full day workshop focuses on exploring the crucial intersection of Explainable AI (XAI) and the challenges posed by time series and data streams

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Political Virtues in the Age of Technology

14.06.24, Zoom (Online) | This workshop brings together an international group of scholars to discuss how new technologies mediate political virtues, and how the latter may be strengthened in light of new challenges posed by AI, blockchain, and other emerging technologies.

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Ethics and Nor­ma­ti­vi­ty of Ex­plaina­ble AI

15.05 - 17.05.24, Paderborn | The workshop serves to sort out different normative expectations and implications and tries to link them to the task of value-oriented technology design.

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