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.
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.
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 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.
In TRR 318, scientists are working on the research and development of AI applications that can improve the quality and safety of medical care. Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Professor of Interactive Robotics in Medicine and Nursing at Bielefeld University and project manager of sub-project B05, spoke about this in a presentation and subsequent panel discussion at an event organised by the East Westphalia Chamber of Industry and Commerce.
TRR-Member Kai Biermeier (Project Z) receives the Best Paper Award Runner Up for his paper on visual attention in AR- and VR-environments at PETRA-Conference.
The annual World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) brings together experts from various fields of research to share and discuss knowledge, experiences and innovations in the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence. As last year, many researchers from TRR 318 will be present at the XAI Conference this summer to present their latest publications.
Two TRR 318 researchers, Ngoc Chi Banh (A05) and Prof. Dr. Ingrid Scharlau (A05, C01, C04, RTG, co-authored in a recently published article. The work deals with the development of advanced assistance systems for vulnerable road users, especially cyclists, in order to achieve the ambitious goal of zero road deaths per year.
In "Co-Constructing Science", young researchers from the various TRR projects have their say. They talk about what they are doing in their respective projects, what contribution their field of science is making and how they assess the perspectives of their colleagues. Where were there points of contention, where were moments of success? In a relaxed discussion, they reflect on the interdisciplinary work in the project and share their experiences.
The recording of the latest CRC-Public Talk "Digital divide in studies caused by AI?" by Professor Dr Isabel Steinhardt (Paderborn University) is now available on our YouTube channel.
Junior professor Dr. Benjamin Paaßen, associate member of the TRR, wants to bring autonomy into the digital age with an AI podcast. Together with Dr. Christiane Attig, Paaßen invites interdisciplinary experts from the field of AI research to shed light on black box systems and equip listeners to take part in decision-making in AI matters. News only available in german.
The latest newsletter of the Transregio (TRR) 318 ‘Constructing Explainability’ provides exciting insights into our current research projects, informative workshops on artificial intelligence (AI) as well as current news and lectures.
