Publications
Conferences
2026
Can You Tell the Difference? Contrastive Explanations for ABox Entailments
Koopmann, P., Mahmood, Y., Ngonga Ngomo, A.-C., & Tiwari, B. (2026). Can You Tell the Difference? Contrastive Explanations for ABox Entailments. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 40(23), 19189–19197. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v40i23.38993
Predicting states of understanding in explanatory interactions using cognitive load-related linguistic cues
Wang, Y., Türk, O., Grimminger, A., & Buschmeier, H. (2026). Predicting states of understanding in explanatory interactions using cognitive load-related linguistic cues. Proceedings of the 15th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, 11368–11378. https://doi.org/10.63317/4tsmsshhd3ad
Investigating the representation of backchannels and fillers in fine-tuned language models
Wang, Y., Lao, L., Huang, L., Skantze, G., Xu, Y., & Buschmeier, H. (2026). Investigating the representation of backchannels and fillers in fine-tuned language models. Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 5319–5348. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2026.acl-long.241
When “yeah” means “not quite”: Multimodal detection of backchannels expressing incomplete understanding
Türk, O., Lazarov, S. T., Wang, Y., Grimminger, A., Buschmeier, H., & Wagner, P. (n.d.). When “yeah” means “not quite”: Multimodal detection of backchannels expressing incomplete understanding. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2026. INTERSPEECH 2026, Sydney, Australia.
2025
Speech Synthesis along Perceptual Voice Quality Dimensions
Rautenberg, F., Kuhlmann, M., Seebauer, F., Wiechmann, J., Wagner, P., & Haeb-Umbach, R. (2025). Speech Synthesis along Perceptual Voice Quality Dimensions. ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India . https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp49660.2025.10888012
Dung’s Argumentation Framework: Unveiling the Expressive Power with Inconsistent Databases
Mahmood, Y., Hecher, M., & Ngonga Ngomo, A.-C. (2025). Dung’s Argumentation Framework: Unveiling the Expressive Power with Inconsistent Databases. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 39(14), 15058–15066. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v39i14.33651
Exact Computation of Any-Order Shapley Interactions for Graph Neural Networks
Muschalik, M., Fumagalli, F., Frazzetto, P., Strotherm, J., Hermes, L., Sperduti, A., Hüllermeier, E., & Hammer, B. (2025). Exact Computation of Any-Order Shapley Interactions for Graph Neural Networks. The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
Explaining Outliers using Isolation Forest and Shapley Interactions
Visser, R., Fumagalli, F., Hüllermeier, E., & Hammer, B. (2025). Explaining Outliers using Isolation Forest and Shapley Interactions. Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN).
Unifying Feature-Based Explanations with Functional ANOVA and Cooperative Game Theory
Fumagalli, F., Muschalik, M., Hüllermeier, E., Hammer, B., & Herbinger, J. (2025). Unifying Feature-Based Explanations with Functional ANOVA and Cooperative Game Theory. Proceedings of The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 258, 5140–5148.
Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language Models in Explanation Dialogues
Fichtel, L., Spliethöver, M., Hüllermeier, E., Jimenez, P., Klowait, N., Kopp, S., Ngonga Ngomo, A.-C., Robrecht, A., Scharlau, I., Terfloth, L., Vollmer, A.-L., & Wachsmuth, H. (n.d.). Investigating Co-Constructive Behavior of Large Language Models in Explanation Dialogues. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue.
Adaptive Prompting: Ad-hoc Prompt Composition for Social Bias Detection
Spliethöver, M., Knebler, T., Fumagalli, F., Muschalik, M., Hammer, B., Hüllermeier, E., & Wachsmuth, H. (2025). Adaptive Prompting: Ad-hoc Prompt Composition for Social Bias Detection. In L. Chiruzzo, A. Ritter, & L. Wang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 2421–2449). Association for Computational Linguistics.
“I'm Actually More Interested in AI Than in Computer Science” - 12-Year-Olds Describing Their First Encounter with AI
Lenke, M., Lehner, L., & Landman, M. (2025). “I’m Actually More Interested in AI Than in Computer Science” - 12-Year-Olds Describing Their First Encounter with AI. 2025 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). https://doi.org/10.1109/educon62633.2025.11016657
Enhancing AI Interaction through Co-Construction: A Multi-Faceted Workshop Framework
Lenke, M., & Schulte, C. (2025). Enhancing AI Interaction through Co-Construction: A Multi-Faceted Workshop Framework. 2025 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). https://doi.org/10.1109/educon62633.2025.11016326
Implementing a computational cognitive process model of medical diagnostic reasoning
Battefeld, D., & Kopp, S. (2025). Implementing a computational cognitive process model of medical diagnostic reasoning. Proceedings of KogWis 2025: Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society. Flexible Minds: Situated and Comparative Perspectives (KogWis 2025), Bochum, Germany.
Manners Matter: Action history guides attention and repair choices during interaction
Singh, A., & Rohlfing, K. J. (2025). Manners Matter: Action history guides attention and repair choices during interaction. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL). IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Prague. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/yn2we_v1
Embedding Psycholinguistics: An Interactive Framework for Studying Language in Action
Singh, A., & Rohlfing, K. J. (2025). Embedding Psycholinguistics: An Interactive Framework for Studying Language in Action. 6th Biannual Conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science, Bochum, Germany. 6th Biannual Conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science, Bochum, Germany, Bochum. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/8PR23
Synthesizing Speech with Selected Perceptual Voice Qualities – A Case Study with Creaky Voice
Rautenberg, F., Seebauer, F., Wiechmann, J., Kuhlmann, M., Wagner, P., & Haeb-Umbach, R. (2025). Synthesizing Speech with Selected Perceptual Voice Qualities – A Case Study with Creaky Voice. Interspeech 2025. Interspeech, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2025-1443
Investigating the Impact of Conceptual Metaphors on LLM-based NLI through Shapley Interactions
Sengupta, M., Muschalik, M., Fumagalli, F., Hammer, B., Hüllermeier, E., Ghosh, D., & Wachsmuth, H. (2025). Investigating the Impact of Conceptual Metaphors on LLM-based NLI through Shapley Interactions. Accepted in Findings . Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025).
2024
Human Emotions in AI Explanations
Thommes, K., Lammert, O., Schütze, C., Richter, B., & Wrede, B. (2024). Human Emotions in AI Explanations. Communications in Computer and Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63803-9_15
Analyzing the Use of Metaphors in News Editorials for Political Framing
Sengupta, M., El Baff, R., Alshomary, M., & Wachsmuth, H. (2024). Analyzing the Use of Metaphors in News Editorials for Political Framing. In K. Duh, H. Gomez, & S. Bethard (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 3621–3631). Association for Computational Linguistics.
A User Study Evaluating Argumentative Explanations in Diagnostic Decision Support
Liedeker, F., Sanchez-Graillet, O., Seidler, M., Brandt, C., Wellmer, J., & Cimiano, P. (n.d.). A User Study Evaluating Argumentative Explanations in Diagnostic Decision Support. First Workshop on Natural Language Argument-Based Explanations, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
An Empirical Investigation of Users' Assessment of XAI Explanations: Identifying the Sweet-Spot of Explanation Complexity
Liedeker, F., Düsing, C., Nieveler, M., & Cimiano, P. (2024). An Empirical Investigation of Users’ Assessment of XAI Explanations: Identifying the Sweet-Spot of Explanation Complexity. 2nd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence, Valetta, Malta.
ASCODI: An XAI-based interactive reasoning support system for justifiable medical diagnosing
Battefeld, D., Liedeker, F., Cimiano, P., & Kopp, S. (2024). ASCODI: An XAI-based interactive reasoning support system for justifiable medical diagnosing. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multimodal, Affective and Interactive EXplainable AI (MAI-XAI). European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Coupling of Task and Partner Model: Investigating the Intra-Individual Variability in Gaze during Human–Robot Explanatory Dialogue
Singh, A., & Rohlfing, K. J. (2024). Coupling of Task and Partner Model: Investigating the Intra-Individual Variability in Gaze during Human–Robot Explanatory Dialogue. Proceedings of 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024). 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2024), San Jose, Costa Rica. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686215.3689202
Towards a BFO-based ontology of understanding in explanatory interactions
Booshehri, M., Buschmeier, H., & Cimiano, P. (2024). Towards a BFO-based ontology of understanding in explanatory interactions. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Data Meets Applied Ontologies in Explainable AI (DAO-XAI). 4th International Workshop on Data Meets Applied Ontologies in Explainable AI (DAO-XAI), Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Detecting subtle differences between human and model languages using spectrum of relative likelihood
Xu, Y., Wang, Y., An, H., Liu, Z., & Li, Y. (2024). Detecting subtle differences between human and model languages using spectrum of relative likelihood. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 10108–10121. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.564
A model of factors contributing to the success of dialogical explanations
Booshehri, M., Buschmeier, H., & Cimiano, P. (2024). A model of factors contributing to the success of dialogical explanations. Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 373–381. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678957.3685744
Conversational feedback in scripted versus spontaneous dialogues: A comparative analysis
Pilán, I., Prévot, L., Buschmeier, H., & Lison, P. (2024). Conversational feedback in scripted versus spontaneous dialogues: A comparative analysis. Proceedings of the 25th Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, 440–457. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.sigdial-1.38
Turn-taking dynamics across different phases of explanatory dialogues
Wagner, P., Włodarczak, M., Buschmeier, H., Türk, O., & Gilmartin, E. (2024). Turn-taking dynamics across different phases of explanatory dialogues. Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, 6–14.
No learning rates needed: Introducing SALSA - Stable Armijo Line Search Adaptation
Kenneweg, P., Kenneweg, T., Fumagalli, F., & Hammer, B. (2024). No learning rates needed: Introducing SALSA - Stable Armijo Line Search Adaptation. 2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650124
Beyond TreeSHAP: Efficient Computation of Any-Order Shapley Interactions for Tree Ensembles
Muschalik, M., Fumagalli, F., Hammer, B., & Huellermeier, E. (2024). Beyond TreeSHAP: Efficient Computation of Any-Order Shapley Interactions for Tree Ensembles. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 38(13), 14388–14396. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i13.29352
SVARM-IQ: Efficient Approximation of Any-order Shapley Interactions through Stratification
Kolpaczki, P., Muschalik, M., Fumagalli, F., Hammer, B., & Huellermeier, E. (2024). SVARM-IQ: Efficient Approximation of Any-order Shapley Interactions through Stratification. Proceedings of The 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 238, 3520–3528.
KernelSHAP-IQ: Weighted Least Square Optimization for Shapley Interactions
Fumagalli, F., Muschalik, M., Kolpaczki, P., Hüllermeier, E., & Hammer, B. (2024). KernelSHAP-IQ: Weighted Least Square Optimization for Shapley Interactions. Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 235, 14308–14342.
shapiq: Shapley interactions for machine learning
Muschalik, M., Baniecki, H., Fumagalli, F., Kolpaczki, P., Hammer, B., & Huellermeier, E. (2024). shapiq: Shapley interactions for machine learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 37, 130324–130357.
Approximating the shapley value without marginal contributions
Kolpaczki, P., Bengs, V., Muschalik, M., & Hüllermeier, E. (2024). Approximating the shapley value without marginal contributions. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 38(12), 13246–13255.
Revisiting the phenomenon of syntactic complexity convergence on German dialogue data
Wang, Y., & Buschmeier, H. (2024). Revisiting the phenomenon of syntactic complexity convergence on German dialogue data. Proceedings of the 20th Conference on Natural Language Processing (KONVENS 2024), 75–80.
How much does nonverbal communication conform to entropy rate constancy?: A case study on listener gaze in interaction
Wang, Y., Xu, Y., Skantze, G., & Buschmeier, H. (2024). How much does nonverbal communication conform to entropy rate constancy?: A case study on listener gaze in interaction. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, 3533–3545.
Disentangling Dialect from Social Bias via Multitask Learning to Improve Fairness
Spliethöver, M., Menon, S. N., & Wachsmuth, H. (2024). Disentangling Dialect from Social Bias via Multitask Learning to Improve Fairness. In L.-W. Ku, A. Martins, & V. Srikumar (Eds.), Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 (pp. 9294–9313). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.553
Revealing the Dynamics of Medical Diagnostic Reasoning as Step-by-Step Cognitive Process Trajectories
Battefeld, D., Mues, S., Wehner, T., House, P., Kellinghaus, C., Wellmer, J., & Kopp, S. (2024). Revealing the Dynamics of Medical Diagnostic Reasoning as Step-by-Step Cognitive Process Trajectories. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, NL.
Static Socio-demographic and Individual Factors for Generating Explanations in XAI: Can they serve as a prior in DSS for adaptation of explanation strategies?
Schütze, C., Richter, B., Lammert, O., Thommes, K., & Wrede, B. (2024). Static Socio-demographic and Individual Factors for Generating Explanations in XAI: Can they serve as a prior in DSS for adaptation of explanation strategies? HAI ’24: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 141–149. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687272.3688300
Human Emotions in AI Explanations
Thommes, K., Lammert, O., Schütze, C., Richter, B., & Wrede, B. (2024). Human Emotions in AI Explanations.
Variations in explainers’ gesture deixis in explanations related to the monitoring of explainees’ understanding
Lazarov, S. T., & Grimminger, A. (2024). Variations in explainers’ gesture deixis in explanations related to the monitoring of explainees’ understanding. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.
Perception and Consideration of the Explainees’ Needs for Satisfying Explanations
Schaffer, M. E., Terfloth, L., Schulte, C., & Buhl, H. M. (2024). Perception and Consideration of the Explainees’ Needs for Satisfying Explanations. 2nd World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence, Valletta, Malta.
Explainers’ Mental Representations of Explainees’ Needs in Everyday Explanations
Schaffer, M. E., Terfloth, L., Schulte, C., & Buhl, H. M. (2024). Explainers’ Mental Representations of Explainees’ Needs in Everyday Explanations. Joint Proceedings of the XAI-2024 Late-Breaking Work, Demos and Doctoral Consortium. 3793.
Human-AI Co-Construction of Interpretable Predictive Models: The Case of Scoring Systems
Heid, S., Kornowicz, J., Hanselle, J. M., Hüllermeier, E., & Thommes, K. (2024). Human-AI Co-Construction of Interpretable Predictive Models: The Case of Scoring Systems. PROCEEDINGS 34. WORKSHOP COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, 21, 233.
Modeling the Quality of Dialogical Explanations
Alshomary, M., Lange, F., Booshehri, M., Sengupta, M., Cimiano, P., & Wachsmuth, H. (2024). Modeling the Quality of Dialogical Explanations. In N. Calzolari, M.-Y. Kan, V. Hoste, A. Lenci, S. Sakti, & N. Xue (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) (pp. 11523–11536). ELRA and ICCL.
Towards a Computational Architecture for Co-Constructive Explainable Systems
Buschmeier, H., Cimiano, P., Kopp, S., Kornowicz, J., Lammert, O., Matarese, M., Mindlin, D., Robrecht, A. S., Vollmer, A.-L., Wagner, P., Wrede, B., & Booshehri, M. (2024). Towards a Computational Architecture for Co-Constructive Explainable Systems. Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Explainability Engineering, 20–25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3648505.3648509
Predictability of understanding in explanatory interactions based on multimodal cues
Türk, O., Lazarov, S. T., Wang, Y., Buschmeier, H., Grimminger, A., & Wagner, P. (2024). Predictability of understanding in explanatory interactions based on multimodal cues. Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 449–458. https://doi.org/10.1145/3678957.3685741
Dung's Argumentation Framework: Unveiling the Expressive Power with Inconsistent Databases
Mahmood, Y., Hecher, M., & Ngonga Ngomo, A.-C. (2024). Dung’s Argumentation Framework: Unveiling the Expressive Power with Inconsistent Databases. https://doi.org/10.1609/AAAI.V39I14.33651
The illusion of competence: Evaluating the effect of explanations on users’ mental models of visual question answering systems
Sieker, J., Junker, S., Utescher, R., Attari, N., Wersing, H., Buschmeier, H., & Zarrieß, S. (2024). The illusion of competence: Evaluating the effect of explanations on users’ mental models of visual question answering systems. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 19459–19475. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.1084
Quantitative Claim-Centric Reasoning in Logic-Based Argumentation
Hecher, M., Mahmood, Y., Meier, A., & Schmidt, J. (2024). Quantitative Claim-Centric Reasoning in Logic-Based Argumentation. Proceedings of the Thirty-ThirdInternational Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/377
2023
On Feature Importance and Interpretability of Speaker Representations
Rautenberg, F., Kuhlmann, M., Wiechmann, J., Seebauer, F., Wagner, P., & Haeb-Umbach, R. (2023). On Feature Importance and Interpretability of Speaker Representations. ITG Conference on Speech Communication. ITG Conference on Speech Communication, Aachen.
Explaining voice characteristics to novice voice practitioners-How successful is it?
Wiechmann, J., Rautenberg, F., Wagner, P., & Haeb-Umbach, R. (2023). Explaining voice characteristics to novice voice practitioners-How successful is it? 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) .
The Role of Response Time for Algorithm Aversion in Fast and Slow Thinking Tasks
Lebedeva, A., Kornowicz, J., Lammert, O., & Papenkordt, J. (2023). The Role of Response Time for Algorithm Aversion in Fast and Slow Thinking Tasks. Artificial Intelligence in HCI. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35891-3_9
The Importance of Distrust in AI
Peters, T. M., & Visser, R. W. (2023). The Importance of Distrust in AI. Communications in Computer and Information Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44070-0_15
Re-examining the quality dimensions of synthetic speech
Seebauer, F., Kuhlmann, M., Haeb-Umbach, R., & Wagner, P. (2023). Re-examining the quality dimensions of synthetic speech. 12th Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW) 2023.
What is AI Ethics? Ethics as means of self-regulation and the need for critical reflection
Alpsancar, S. (2023). What is AI Ethics? Ethics as means of self-regulation and the need for critical reflection . International Conference on Computer Ethics 2023, 1(1), 1--17.
Technical Transparency for Robot Navigation Through AR Visualizations
Dyck, L., Beierling, H., Helmert, R., & Vollmer, A.-L. (2023). Technical Transparency for Robot Navigation Through AR Visualizations. Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 720–724. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580181
Speech Disentanglement for Analysis and Modification of Acoustic and Perceptual Speaker Characteristics
Rautenberg, F., Kuhlmann, M., Ebbers, J., Wiechmann, J., Seebauer, F., Wagner, P., & Haeb-Umbach, R. (2023). Speech Disentanglement for Analysis and Modification of Acoustic and Perceptual Speaker Characteristics. Fortschritte Der Akustik - DAGA 2023, 1409–1412.
Emotional Debiasing Explanations for Decisions in HCI
Schütze, C., Lammert, O., Richter, B., Thommes, K., & Wrede, B. (2023). Emotional Debiasing Explanations for Decisions in HCI. Artificial Intelligence in HCI. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35891-3_20
SNAPE: A Sequential Non-Stationary Decision Process Model for Adaptive Explanation Generation
Robrecht, A., & Kopp, S. (2023). SNAPE: A Sequential Non-Stationary Decision Process Model for Adaptive Explanation Generation. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011671300003393
A Study on the Benefits and Drawbacks of Adaptivity in AI-generated Explanations
Robrecht, A., Rothgänger, M., & Kopp, S. (2023). A Study on the Benefits and Drawbacks of Adaptivity in AI-generated Explanations. Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. https://doi.org/10.1145/3570945.3607339
Modeling Highlighting of Metaphors in Multitask Contrastive Learning Paradigms
Sengupta, M., Alshomary, M., Scharlau, I., & Wachsmuth, H. (2023). Modeling Highlighting of Metaphors in Multitask Contrastive Learning Paradigms. In H. Bouamor, J. Pino, & K. Bali (Eds.), Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023 (pp. 4636–4659). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.308
The Return of Black Box Theory in Explainable AI
Beer, F., & Schulz, C. (n.d.). The Return of Black Box Theory in Explainable AI. 4S Conference (Society for the Social Studies of Science), Honolulu/Hawaii, November 9.
Contrastiveness in the context of action demonstration: an eye-tracking study on its effects on action perception and action recall
Singh, A., & Rohlfing, K. J. (2023). Contrastiveness in the context of action demonstration: an eye-tracking study on its effects on action perception and action recall. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 45 (45). 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney.
A Prototype of an Interactive Clinical Decision Support System with Counterfactual Explanations
Liedeker, F., & Cimiano, P. (2023). A Prototype of an Interactive Clinical Decision Support System with Counterfactual Explanations. xAI-2023 Late-breaking Work, Demos and Doctoral Consortium co-located with the 1st World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI-2023), Lissabon.
SNAPE: A Sequential Non-Stationary Decision Process Model for Adaptive Explanation Generation
Robrecht, A., & Kopp, S. (2023). SNAPE: A Sequential Non-Stationary Decision Process Model for Adaptive Explanation Generation. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, 48–58. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011671300003393
Exploring the Semantic Dialogue Patterns of Explanations – a Case Study of Game Explanations
Fisher, J. B., Robrecht, A., Kopp, S., & Rohlfing, K. J. (2023). Exploring the Semantic Dialogue Patterns of Explanations – a Case Study of Game Explanations. Proceedings of the 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue . Semdial, Maribor.
Does listener gaze in face-to-face interaction follow the Entropy Rate Constancy principle: An empirical study
Wang, Y., & Buschmeier, H. (2023). Does listener gaze in face-to-face interaction follow the Entropy Rate Constancy principle: An empirical study. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, 15372–15379.
iPDP: On Partial Dependence Plots in Dynamic Modeling Scenarios
Muschalik, M., Fumagalli, F., Jagtani, R., Hammer, B., & Huellermeier, E. (2023). iPDP: On Partial Dependence Plots in Dynamic Modeling Scenarios. Proceedings of the World Conference on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44064-9_11
On Feature Removal for Explainability in Dynamic Environments
Fumagalli, F., Muschalik, M., Hüllermeier, E., & Hammer, B. (2023). On Feature Removal for Explainability in Dynamic Environments. Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN). ESANN 2023 - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning, Bruges (Belgium) and online. https://doi.org/10.14428/ESANN/2023.ES2023-148
SHAP-IQ: Unified Approximation of any-order Shapley Interactions
Fumagalli, F., Muschalik, M., Kolpaczki, P., Hüllermeier, E., & Hammer, B. (2023). SHAP-IQ: Unified Approximation of any-order Shapley Interactions. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 36, 11515--11551.
Comparing Humans and Algorithms in Feature Ranking: A Case-Study in the Medical Domain
Hanselle, J. M., Kornowicz, J., Heid, S., Thommes, K., & Hüllermeier, E. (2023). Comparing Humans and Algorithms in Feature Ranking: A Case-Study in the Medical Domain. In M. Leyer & J. Wichmann (Eds.), LWDA’23: Learning, Knowledge, Data, Analysis. .
Conclusion-based Counter-Argument Generation
Alshomary, M., & Wachsmuth, H. (2023). Conclusion-based Counter-Argument Generation. In A. Vlachos & I. Augenstein (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 957–967). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-main.67
Adding Why to What? Analyses of an Everyday Explanation
Terfloth, L., Schaffer, M., Buhl, H. M., & Schulte, C. (2023). Adding Why to What? Analyses of an Everyday Explanation. 1st World Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI 2023), Lisboa. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44070-0_13
2022
Technically enabled explaining of voice characteristics
Wiechmann, J., Glarner, T., Rautenberg, F., Wagner, P., & Haeb-Umbach, R. (2022). Technically enabled explaining of voice characteristics. 18. Phonetik Und Phonologie Im Deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P).
An Architecture Supporting Configurable Autonomous Multimodal Joint-Attention-Therapy for Various Robotic Systems
Groß, A., Schütze, C., Wrede, B., & Richter, B. (2022). An Architecture Supporting Configurable Autonomous Multimodal Joint-Attention-Therapy for Various Robotic Systems. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION, 154–159. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536220.3558070
Enabling Non-Technical Domain Experts to Create Robot-Assisted Therapeutic Scenarios via Visual Programming
Schütze, C., Groß, A., Wrede, B., & Richter, B. (2022). Enabling Non-Technical Domain Experts to Create Robot-Assisted Therapeutic Scenarios via Visual Programming. INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTIMODAL INTERACTION, 166–170. https://doi.org/10.1145/3536220.3558072
User Involvement in Training Smart Home Agents
Sieger, L. N., Hermann, J., Schomäcker, A., Heindorf, S., Meske, C., Hey, C.-C., & Doğangün, A. (2022). User Involvement in Training Smart Home Agents. International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. HAI ’22: International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Christchurch, New Zealand. https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3561914
(De)Coding social practice in the field of XAI: Towards a co-constructive framework of explanations and understanding between lay users and algorithmic systems
Finke, J., Horwath, I., Matzner, T., & Schulz, C. (2022). (De)Coding social practice in the field of XAI: Towards a co-constructive framework of explanations and understanding between lay users and algorithmic systems. Artificial Intelligence in HCI, 149–160. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05643-7_10
“Mama Always Had a Way of Explaining Things So I Could Understand”: A Dialogue Corpus for Learning to Construct Explanations
Wachsmuth, H., & Alshomary, M. (2022). “Mama Always Had a Way of Explaining Things So I Could Understand”: A Dialogue Corpus for Learning to Construct Explanations. In N. Calzolari, C.-R. Huang, H. Kim, J. Pustejovsky, L. Wanner, K.-S. Choi, P.-M. Ryu, H.-H. Chen, L. Donatelli, H. Ji, S. Kurohashi, P. Paggio, N. Xue, S. Kim, Y. Hahm, Z. He, T. K. Lee, E. Santus, F. Bond, & S.-H. Na (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (pp. 344–354). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
Back to the Roots: Predicting the Source Domain of Metaphors using Contrastive Learning
Sengupta, M., Alshomary, M., & Wachsmuth, H. (2022). Back to the Roots: Predicting the Source Domain of Metaphors using Contrastive Learning. Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on Figurative Language Processing.
(De)Coding Social Practice in the Field of XAI: Towards a Co-constructive Framework of Explanations and Understanding Between Lay Users and Algorithmic Systems
Finke, J., Horwath, I., Matzner, T., & Schulz, C. (2022). (De)Coding Social Practice in the Field of XAI: Towards a Co-constructive Framework of Explanations and Understanding Between Lay Users and Algorithmic Systems. Artificial Intelligence in HCI, 149–160. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05643-7_10
Formalizing cognitive biases in medical diagnostic reasoning
Battefeld, D., & Kopp, S. (2022). Formalizing cognitive biases in medical diagnostic reasoning. Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning. 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning (FCR), Trier.
Explaining Reject Options of Learning Vector Quantization Classifiers
Artelt, A., Brinkrolf, J., Visser, R., & Hammer, B. (2022). Explaining Reject Options of Learning Vector Quantization Classifiers. Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence. https://doi.org/10.5220/0011389600003332
Model Agnostic Local Explanations of Reject
Artelt, A., Visser, R., & Hammer, B. (2022). Model Agnostic Local Explanations of Reject. ESANN 2022 Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.14428/esann/2022.es2022-34
Generating Contrastive Snippets for Argument Search
Alshomary, M., Rieskamp, J., & Wachsmuth, H. (2022). Generating Contrastive Snippets for Argument Search. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, 21–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/FAIA220138
The Moral Debater: A Study on the Computational Generation of Morally Framed Arguments
Alshomary, M., El Baff, R., Gurcke, T., & Wachsmuth, H. (2022). The Moral Debater: A Study on the Computational Generation of Morally Framed Arguments. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 8782–8797.
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Conference Abstracts
2026
Framing what and how to think: Lay people’s metaphors for algorithms
Porwol, P. F., Körber, M., Kern, F., Schulte, C., & Scharlau, I. (2026). Framing what and how to think: Lay people’s metaphors for algorithms. In P. Cimiano, B. Paaßen, & A.-L. Vollmer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations. Bielefeld University Press. https://doi.org/10.64136/ubio9074
2025
A BFO-based ontology of context for Social XAI
Booshehri, M., Buschmeier, H., & Cimiano, P. (2025). A BFO-based ontology of context for Social XAI. Abstracts of the 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations. 3rd TRR 318 Conference: Contextualizing Explanations, Bielefeld, Germany.
The Dual Nature as a Local Context to Explore Verbal Behaviour in Game Explanations
Fisher, J. B., & Terfloth, L. (2025). The Dual Nature as a Local Context to Explore Verbal Behaviour in Game Explanations. Proceedings of the 29th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2025).
Die Ambivalenz von Sichtbarkeit. Ethische Perspektiven auf die digitale Transformation
Philippi, M. (2025). Die Ambivalenz von Sichtbarkeit. Ethische Perspektiven auf die digitale Transformation. Sorbische Lebenswelten im digitalen Zeitalter, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus.
Grenzen des Verstehens
Philippi, M. (2025). Grenzen des Verstehens. Hermeneutik - oder: Was heißt “Verstehen”? Januartagung der Evangelischen Forschungsakademie, Berlin.
Acoustic detection of false positive backchannels of understanding in explanations
Türk, O., Lazarov, S. T., Buschmeier, H., Wagner, P., & Grimminger, A. (2025). Acoustic detection of false positive backchannels of understanding in explanations. LingCologne 2025 – Book of Abstracts, 36.
2024
Effects of task difficulty on visual processing speed
Banh, N. C., & Scharlau, I. (2024). Effects of task difficulty on visual processing speed. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen (TeaP), Regensburg.
Automatic reconstruction of dialogue participants’ coordinating gaze behavior from multiple camera perspectives
Riechmann, A. N., & Buschmeier, H. (2024). Automatic reconstruction of dialogue participants’ coordinating gaze behavior from multiple camera perspectives. Book of Abstracts of the 2nd International Multimodal Communication Symposium, 38–39.
The role of interactive gestures in explanatory interactions
Lohmer, V., & Kern, F. (2024). The role of interactive gestures in explanatory interactions. Second International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM) - Book of Abstract. 2nd International Multimodal Communication Symposium, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Deutschland.
AI explainability, temporality, and civic virtue
Reijers, W., Matzner, T., Alpsancar, S., & Philippi, M. (2024). AI explainability, temporality, and civic virtue. Smart Ethics in the Digital World: Proceedings of the ETHICOMP 2024. 21th International Conference on the Ethical and Social Impacts of ICT. Universidad de La Rioja, 2024.
Unpacking the purposes of explainable AI
Alpsancar, S., Matzner, T., & Philippi, M. (2024). Unpacking the purposes of explainable AI. Smart Ethics in the Digital World: Proceedings of the ETHICOMP 2024. 21th International Conference on the Ethical and Social Impacts of ICT, 31–35.
The mental representation of the object of explanation in the process of co-constructive explanations
Schaffer, M., & Buhl, H. M. (2024). The mental representation of the object of explanation in the process of co-constructive explanations. In U. Ansorge, B. Szaszkó, & L. Werner (Eds.), 53rd DGPs Congress - Abstracts.
Von der Kunst, die richtigen Fragen zu stellen. Das Potential der Phänomenologie für die Technikfolgenabschätzung
Philippi, M. (2024). Von der Kunst, die richtigen Fragen zu stellen. Das Potential der Phänomenologie für die Technikfolgenabschätzung. TA24. TA24: Methoden für die Technikfolgenabschätzung – im Spannungsfeld zwischen bewährter Praxis und neuen Möglichkeiten, ÖAW Wien.
Dealing responsibly with tacit assumptions. An interdisciplinary approach to the integration of ethical reflexion into user modeling
Philippi, M., & Mindlin, D. (2024). Dealing responsibly with tacit assumptions. An interdisciplinary approach to the integration of ethical reflexion into user modeling. EASST-4S. EASST-4S 2024: Making and doing transformations, VU Amsterdam.
How to address ethical problems in a multi-perspective context: Interdisciplinary challenges of XAI
Philippi, M. (2024). How to address ethical problems in a multi-perspective context: Interdisciplinary challenges of XAI. Fpet2024. fpet (Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology) 2024, ZKM Karlsruhe.
Ethics of Explainable AI
Philippi, M., & Reijers, W. (2024). Ethics of Explainable AI. Ethics and Normativity of Explainable AI, Paderborn.
Dual-use potential in humanitarian UAVs
Philippi, M. (2024). Dual-use potential in humanitarian UAVs. Human-machine learning? Interaction with deadly machines, Paderborn.
Herausforderungen und Potentiale von erklärbarer KI für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Politikberatung
Philippi, M. (2024). Herausforderungen und Potentiale von erklärbarer KI für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Politikberatung. NTA11. NTA11: Politikberatungskompetenzen heute, Berlin.
Transparency and persuasion: Chances and Risks of Explainable AI applications in modeling for policy
Philippi, M. (2024). Transparency and persuasion: Chances and Risks of Explainable AI applications in modeling for policy. SAS24. SAS24: Modeling for Policy, HLRS Stuttgart.
2023
First steps towards real-time assessment of attentional weights and capacity according to TVA
Banh, N. C., & Scharlau, I. (2023). First steps towards real-time assessment of attentional weights and capacity according to TVA. In S. Merz, C. Frings, B. Leuchtenberg, B. Moeller, S. Mueller, R. Neumann, B. Pastötter, L. Pingen, & G. Schui (Eds.), Abstracts of the 65th TeaP. ZPID (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.12945
Dynamic Feature Selection in AI-based Diagnostic Decision Support for Epilepsy
Liedeker, F., & Cimiano, P. (2023). Dynamic Feature Selection in AI-based Diagnostic Decision Support for Epilepsy. 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Epilepsy and Neurological Disorders, Breckenridge, CO, USA .
Explaining the Technical Artifact Quarto!: How Gestures are used in Everyday Explanations
Lohmer, V., Terfloth, L., & Kern, F. (2023). Explaining the Technical Artifact Quarto!: How Gestures are used in Everyday Explanations. First International Multimodal Communication Symposium - Book of Abstract. 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium, Universität Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Approaches of Assessing Understanding Using Video-Recall Data
Lazarov, S. T., Schaffer, M., & Ronoh, E. K. (2023). Approaches of Assessing Understanding Using Video-Recall Data. 2nd TRR 318 Conference “Measuring Understanding” , Paderborn.
Erklärungsverläufe und -inhalte aus Sicht Erklärender - eine qualitative Studie
Schaffer, M., & Buhl, H. M. (2023). Erklärungsverläufe und -inhalte aus Sicht Erklärender - eine qualitative Studie. PAEPS 19. Fachgruppentagung Pädagogische Psychologie: Lehren und Lernen in einer Welt im Wandel, Kiel.
Trust and awareness in the context of search and rescue missions
Philippi, M. (2023). Trust and awareness in the context of search and rescue missions. SAS23. SAS23: Reliability or Trustworthiness?, HLRS Stuttgart.
2022
Effects of verbal negation on TVA’s capacity and weight parameters
Banh, N. C., & Scharlau, I. (2022). Effects of verbal negation on TVA’s capacity and weight parameters. In S. Malejka, M. Barth, H. Haider, & C. Stahl (Eds.), TeaP 2022 - Abstracts of the 64th Conference of Experimental Psychologists . Pabst Science Publishers. https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.5677
Folgen wiederholter Negation auf die Aufmerksamkeit
Banh, N. C., Scharlau, I., & Rohlfing, K. J. (2022). Folgen wiederholter Negation auf die Aufmerksamkeit. In C. Bermeitinger & W. Greve (Eds.), 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie.
Die Anpassungen von Erklärungen an das Verständnis des Erklärgegenstandes der Gesprächspartner
Schaffer, M., Lea, B., Schulte, C., & Buhl, H. M. (2022). Die Anpassungen von Erklärungen an das Verständnis des Erklärgegenstandes der Gesprächspartner. In C. Bermeitinger & W. Greve (Eds.), 52nd DGPs Congress - Abstracts.
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