News Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 next How multimodal communication influences explanations 05/23/2023 | A group of scientists from the Transregio took part in the 1st International Multimodal Communication in Barcelona and presented their research results on the influence of multimodal forms of communication on explanations. Call for Participation: Submit your contribution now for the second TRR 318 conference 05/11/2023 | On 6 and 7 November, TRR 318 will host the conference "Measuring Understanding". Researchers from all disciplines have until 5 June to submit their abstracts. The hesitant robot 05/02/2023 | In a new study by the Universities of Bielefeld and Bremen, scientists are investigating how humans can better follow the instructions of a robot. Several researchers from the Transregio are involved in the study. How Robotics and Artificial Intelligence are Transforming Healthcare 04/23/2023 | Artificial intelligence can assist medical professionals in their work, for example in recognising disease patterns on X-rays. In his talk, Prof Dr Philipp Cimiano will show the importance of explanations in this context. How do we encounter Artificial Intelligence? 04/21/2023 | The first "German AI Month mAI" will take place from 1 to 31 May 2023. TRR 318 is participating in the initiative and organising a co-construction workshop on May 15th at Bielefeld University for people interested in AI (workshop in German). “A multidisciplinary approach was what I was looking for and I really enjoy it” 04/17/2023 | Marco Matarese is a PhD student at the University of Genoa and visiting researcher in subproject A01 of TRR 318 on a four-month PhD fellowship until the end of June. His research focuses on adaptive explanations and explainable AI. Barbara Hammer and Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo were awarded as top AI researchers 04/13/2023 | Professor Dr Barbara Hammer and Professor Dr Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo receive the inaugural Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship, worth up to 600,000 euros. (Image: © MKW NRW) Behind the scenes of TRR 318 03/28/2023 | The new issue of the TRR 318 newsletter "Developing Explanations Together" has been published and gives an insight into the background work of the research in TRR 318. “Research and management complement each other but do not always go hand in hand” 03/28/2023 | Ronja Hannebohm is the managing director of TRR 318. Her diverse tasks show how central this work is to the research at TRR 318. In this interview, she talks about her day-to-day work and what it means to organize a large research center. First Retreat of All Researchers of TRR 318 03/27/2023 | All TRR 318 scientists will meet in Hamm to work on the research group's topics and especially the synthesis process. Do Visualizations Increase Trust in a Robot? 03/21/2023 | A team of computer scientists from Bielefeld University has conducted a study to investigate how visualizations in augmented reality can increase users’ understanding, trust, and acceptance of a robot. “How impressively ChatGPT works is still astonishing even to me” 03/07/2023 | The AI system ChatGPT is based on a language model and automatically generates text in chat format. Professor Dr Henning Wachsmuth explains how it works and what ChatGPT cannot yet do. “Technologies like ChatGPT have enormous potential to change the world” 03/07/2023 | Sociologist Nils Klowait asked ChatGPT to program a computer game and summarise scientific papers. In this interview, he describes his impressions of ChatGPT and the chances and risks of such AI systems. The machine as a game explainer 03/06/2023 | With "SNAPE," computer scientists from TRR 318 have developed a model which can adjust its explanation strategies to the individual needs of the explainee. Recognizing Metaphors Computationally 01/23/2023 | Modern natural language processing programs still have trouble coming to grips with figurative language. Computational linguists from TRR 318 are proposing a new approach. 1 2 3 next Page 1 of 3