TRR 318 - Project C04: Metaphors as an explanation tool
Project C04 investigates metaphors as a specific means to make difficult phenomena interpretable. The innovative aspect is to regard both highlighting and hiding processes when metaphors are utilized in explanations. The project aims to understand how metaphors may either facilitate or impede understanding, and how this understanding can be applied ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Project C06: Technically enabled explanation of speaker traits
A voice might be described as hoarse, or it may be clear, deep, or breathy. Researchers in Project C06 are looking at issues of how different vocal traits sound, and how a voice can be represented in all of its many facets. Here, linguists and computer scientists are working to develop an intelligent system that professionals can use to explain the ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
QPIC-1: Photonic Integrated Quantum Computer
Quantentechnologien werden einen transformativen Einfluss auf unsere Gesellschaft besitzen; insbesondere Quantencomputing welches den grundlegenden quantenmechanischen Effekt der Verschränkung für die effiziente Berechnung von Aufgaben verwendet, die mit einem klassischen Computer in realistischer Zeit nicht durchgeführt werden können. Zusammen mit ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 06/2025
Contact: Dr. Christof Eigner
TRR 318 - Constructing Explainability
In unserer digitalen Gesellschaft nehmen die algorithmischen Ansätze (wie das maschinelle Lernen) rasant an Komplexität zu. Diese erschwert es den Bürger:innen, die Assistenz nachzuvollziehen und die von Algorithmen vorgeschlagenen Entscheidungen zu akzeptieren. Als Antwort auf diese gesellschaftliche Herausforderung hat die Forschung begonnen, ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Project A01: Adaptive explanation generation
While explaining something, people generally take their conversation partner’s reactions into account and adapt their explanation accordingly. In Project A01, researchers from linguistics, psychology, and computer science are studying two components of this adjustment: cognitive adaptivity and interactive adaptivity. In cognitive adaptivity, the ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Project A02: Monitoring the understanding of explanations
When something is being explained to someone, the explainee signals their understanding – or lack thereof – to the explainer with verbal expressions and other non-verbal means of communication, such as gestures and facial expressions. By nodding, the explainee can signal that they have understood. Nodding, however, can also be meant as a request to ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Project INF: Toward a framework for assessing explanation quality
The INF Project will establish an infrastructure for the individual projects by providing guidelines for annotation tools and data collection. The guidelines foster unified ways of data management and make it possible for the data from the individual projects to flow directly into analyses of what is a successful explanation. A further task of the ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Project Ö: Questions about explainable technology
The public relations Project Ö will communicate the interdisciplinary research of the TRR to the public by focusing on the main idea of co-construction, namely the process in which the role of the explainee has changed from passive receiver of information to an active subject. In this vein, so called co-construction workshops (CCWS) will be ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Project RTG: Integrated Research Training Group
The TRR can be considered as challenging because of its topicality and ambitious interdisciplinarity. The young researchers of this TRR will have to do excellent disciplinary as well as excellent interdisciplinary work while representing a topic dedicated to relevant societal discussions. The integrated research training group (RTG) aims to prepare ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
PT symmetry and non-Hermitian physics in polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities
Nicht-hermitesche physikalische Systeme erhalten immer mehr Aufmerksamtkeit, da sie viele einzigartige und unkonventionelle Eigenschaften zeigen. In Systemen, die durch einen nicht-hermiteschen Hamiltonoperator beschrieben werden, kann Parität-Zeit (PT) Symmetrie dazu führen, dass das System reelle Eigenenergieen aufweist; diese werden ...
Duration: 06/2021 - 12/2024