Speed-Dating Robotics Experience assistive systems in medicine and care How can technology support people in medicine and care – and what are its limitations? At various stations, you can try out the latest research prototypes for intelligent assistance systems and robotics for yourselves and talk directly to the researchers working on them.You’ll discover the possibilities these technologies offer in the healthcare sector and how systems…

Qualitative Research on Quantitative Scale? Opportunities and Pitfalls of LLMs as Annotators Many TRR researchers had the experience of having to painstakingly annotate a long transcript by hand. Due to the time needed to perform such deep and detail-oriented work, such kind of analysis is not easily applicable to larger data sets. Large language models now seem to enable us to do just that: prompting an LLM with an complex annotation guideline…

Save the Date: Writing Day led by Andrea Karsten.  In the morning, we meet and set our personal goals for the day. The rest of the Writing Day is built around several "shut-up-and-write" phases in which we all write together at individual desks in a shared room. To inspire writing and working in a concentrated and productive fashion, the silent writing phases are introduced by short inputs or exercises in which you are encouraged to reflect on…

How does a robot learn what to do? In this workshop, you’ll find out how a robot can be trained step by step using feedback from people, and what you need to bear in mind when doing so. The session alternates between short explanations and practical exercises: you’ll have a go yourself and learn what really matters! After the workshop, you can continue trying out the software at a hands-on station and explain to your parents how they can train…

In this interactive workshop, participants will work together to explore how AI decisions can affect people in different ways. The workshop will take place at the Stadtteilküche Sieker and is part of the project “Sieker Speaks and We Listen—Exploring Language and AI Together.” Registration at the Stadtteilküche Sieker is required. Further information on the workshop (German) More about “Sieker Speaks”

Save the Date: Workshop on reading & writing led by Andrea Karsten. More coming soon…

Workshop cooperation with WIKO Wednesday, 13th January 2027   09:30 – 17:30 (9:30 am to 5:30 pm), place and information about the workshop will be announced soon.

Workshop cooperation with WIKO Thursday, 14th January 2027   09:30 – 17:30 (9:30 am to 5:30 pm), place and information about the workshop will be announced soon

Members of TRR 318 are organizing the 3rd TRR 318 Conference "Scaffolding Social XAI". The Call for Abstracts is open until November 1, 2026. (extended until November 14, 2026)