Projects from Prof. Dr. Ingrid Scharlau
TRR 318-2 - Project RTG: Integrated Research Training Group
The RTG structures the further training of early career researchers and prepares them for their interdisciplinary research work by familiarizing them with different scientific practices, disciplinary cultures, methods, attitudes and values and by fostering communication across disciplines or discourse communities including the public. The RTG aims ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
TRR 318-2 - Project C04: Metaphors as an explanation tool
Explanations of abstract explananda (such as AI systems) need metaphors to relate new, abstract knowledge to more concrete concepts. In the first phase, we studied how metaphors highlight and hide aspects to foster understanding, how to model their agency structure, and how they are used for explaining. In the second, we will investigate how to ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
TRR 318-2 - Project C01: Explanations for healthy distrust in large language models
Since ML models have limitations, human ability to question and distrust their decisions is crucial for human-AI-interaction. C01 established a common terminology for distrust, demonstrated that distrust is not easily fostered, and developed novel machine learning algorithms to identify and explain model uncertainty. We will now develop ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
TRR 318-2 - Constructing Explainability
The scope of the EU right to explanation has fueled the need to improve eXplainable Artificial Intelligence capacities aiming at strengthening the rights of individuals affected by AI-based recommendations. Among other purposes, explanations serve the right to contest an AI output and protect humans from being left out of control. However, ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
DigiSelF - Digitalisierung als Herausforderung und Innovation in der Hochschullehre: Einsatz digitaler Hilfsmittel zur Förderung von Selbststeuerung
Duration: 08/2021 - 12/2025
Contact: Dr. Hannah Sloane
TRR 318 - Subproject C1 - 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 - Subproject C4 - 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 Area RTG - Integrated Research Training Group
The Research Training Group (RTG) provides a framework for the structured qualification of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to prepare them to conduct interdisciplinay research. The RTG offers an extensive workshop program to help early career researchers develop their professional and personal skills and organizes events such as writing ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Contextualized and online parametrization of attention in human–robot explanatory dialog (Subproject A05)
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
Digitalisierung als Herausforderung und Innovation in der Hochschullehre (DigiSELF), Teilprojekt 2 „Entwicklung eines Programms studentischer „Culture Fellows“ zur Unterstützung in komplexen Lehr-, Lern-, und Prüfungssettings“
Studium und Lehre stehen vor gravierenden Veränderungen. Distanzlehre hat neue Wege aufgezeigt, und eine zunehmend heterogene Studierendenschaft fordert zur Individualisierung der Lern- und Studienangebote auf. Erkennbar ist auch, dass Anforderungen an Selbstorganisation und -steuerung zunehmen. Hier setzt das vorliegende Arbeitspaket an. Culture ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025