Projects from Prof. Dr. Katharina Rohlfing
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
TRR 318-2 - Project A01: Adaptive explanation generation
Our aim is to investigate the adaptation mechanisms enabling partners to interactively construct an explanation, and then to imbue interactive XAI systems with similar capabilities. Based on results suggesting an interplay between interactive (verbal moves) and cognitive adaptivity (partner model), we developed a computational model for generating ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
TRR 318-2 - Project A05: Contextualized and online parametrization of scaffolding in human–robot explanatory dialog
Negation and verbal contrast are important means of scaffolding. When negations are provided during explaining joint actions, they link the present knowledge about actions to those that have been performed in the past. We continue to develop scaffolding strategies for a dialog with a social robot in a joint action setting. Our long-term objective ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
TRR 318-2 - Project Z: Central tasks of the Collaborative Research Center
Z is the central management hub of TRR 318: the project coordinates the budget, ensures internal communication, and organizes central events. In addition, Z pursues several missions aimed at best possible conditions, processes, and outcomes for the TRR’s research: offering an attractive interdisciplinary environment with empirical research support, ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
PIK - Paderborn Perspectives on Inclusion - interdisciplinary, discursive, practice-oriented - Colloquia, Kolleg & Fireside Chats
Duration: 04/2023 - 03/2026
Contact: Dr. Stefanie Aschhoff-Hartmann, Annchristin Ellersiek
SAIL: SustAInable Life-cycle of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems
Current systems that incorporate AI technology mainly target the introduction phase, where a core component is training and adaptation of AI models based on given example data. SAIL’s focus on the full life-cycle moves the current emphasis towards sustainable long-term development in real life. The joint project SAIL addresses both basic research ...
Duration: 08/2022 - 07/2026
TRR 318 - Adaptive Explanation Generation (Subproject A01)
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 - 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
Administrative project (Z)
The general administrative Project Z will contribute to the success of the TRR in three ways: First, it will administer both the budgeting and organization of the TRR. Second, it will co-organize the TRR workshops and conferences. Third, it will monitor the TRR’s output and evaluate the efficiency of its internal structure, also with regard to the ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025