Project B03: Exploring users, roles, and explanations in real-world contexts

Where and how do people of different age, gender, and social backgrounds encounter artificial intelligence (AI) in their everyday lives and how do they perceive it? In order to answer this and other questions, researchers from the field of media studies and sociology affiliated to project B03 will draw on information provided by study participants via an app in which they document their daily interactions with various artificial intelligence technologies (such as digital assistance systems, health apps, and social media). Based on the data collected, the researchers will identify users' specific needs for AI explanations in order to determine specific expectations, needs and challenges of different user groups when it comes to explainable - and therefore successful – AI.

 

Research areas: Sociology, Media studies

Project leaders

AOR. Dr. Ilona Horwath

Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318

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Prof. Dr. Tobias Matzner

Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318

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Staff

Dr. Christian Schulz

Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318

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Dr Patricia Jimenez

Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318

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Patrick Henschen, M.A.

Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 318

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Associate member

Lea Biere, Paderborn University

Support staff

Jennifer Dumpich, Paderborn University

Leonie von Egloffstein, Paderborn University

Esma Gökal, Paderborn University

Merle Mahne, Paderborn University

Publications

(De)Coding Social Practice in the Field of XAI: Towards a Co-constructive Framework of Explanations and Understanding Between Lay Users and Algorithmic Systems
J. Finke, I. Horwath, T. Matzner, C. Schulz, in: Artificial Intelligence in HCI, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2022, pp. 149–160.
(De)Coding social practice in the field of XAI: Towards a co-constructive framework of explanations and understanding between lay users and algorithmic systems
J. Finke, I. Horwath, T. Matzner, C. Schulz, in: Artificial Intelligence in HCI, Springer International Publishing , Cham, 2022, pp. 149–160.
A new algorithmic imaginary
C. Schulz, Media, Culture & Society 45 (2023) 646–655.
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