TRR 318 - Project A03: Co-constructing explanations with emotional alignment between AI-explainer and human explainee
Emotional reactions in social interactions are unavoidable. The underlying assumption of Project A03 is that emotional cues by the explainee are an important feedback for the explainer. Also, emotions bias the human process of understanding which is reflected in the questions that an explainee asks. Therefore, the investigations will focus on how ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Project A04: Integrating the technical model into the partner model in explanations of digital artifacts
Project A04 investigates the different perspectives on the contents of explanations, i.e. what an explanation is about, and how they may change in the course of an explanatory interactive dialogue. An explanation about a technical artifact (which might be a hammer as well as a digital game) can encompass two different perspectives: On the one hand, ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Project A05: Contextualized and online parametrization of attention in human–robot explanatory dialog
In Project A05, researchers from the areas of linguistics, psychology, and computer science are investigating attention in human-robot explanatory dialog. They are addressing questions including: where do humans focus their attention when a robot explains a task to them? How can robots direct their counterpart’s attention to achieve the goal of the ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Project B01: A dialog-based approach to explaining machine learning models
In Project B01, researchers are working on an artificial intelligence (AI) based system that can properly respond to questions at the level of language. In medicine, for example, the system should be able to explain a proposed treatment to a doctor and respond to patients’ questions and concerns regarding their treatment plan. The computer ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Project C01: Healthy distrust in explanations
The focus is on crucial overarching properties of decisions and explanations. The aim is to investigate the important question of how a person’s critical attitude towards an AI system can be supported by fostering a healthy distrust in intelligent systems, and whether and how this attitude can be reinforced by means of explainable machine learning ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Project C02: Interactive learning of explainable, situation-adapted decision models
The focus of Project C02 investigates a novel approach through which the space of possible models explaining a certain decision can be explored interactively by a user until a model is found that satisfies the needs of the user in terms of the trade-off between accuracy and model complexity. The project defines and explores a refinement relation ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
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
BIKINI - Bionics and AI for Sustainable Integration of Product Development for Resource-Efficient Lightweight Construction
To curb climate change, CO2 emissions must be reduced. One of the key technologies is lightweight design and the CO2 savings that can be achieved during the product use phase - especially in the area of mobility - through weight reduction. Within the framework of the BIKINI joint project funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 06/2024