Projects from Kai Biermeier, M.Sc.
TRR 318-2 - Project A04: Co-constructing duality-enhanced explanations
Technical artifacts can be explained via their Architecture (e.g., structure and mechanisms) and their Relevance (e.g., functions and goals)—summarized as Duality. We will analyze human-human explanations of digital artifacts with respect to duality-related monitoring and multimodal scaffolding and how it is tailored to EEs’ social roles, and ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
TRR 318-2 - Project A03: Co-constructing explanations between AI-explainer and human explainee under arousal or nonarousal
We investigate how arousal affects the processing of explanations. Arousal can occur from the task, contextual factors or from the explanation itself. Our goal is to develop an interactive system that co-constructs an explanation that allows the explainee to understand XAI explanations when being overly or too little aroused. Both, human and the ...
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
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 A02: Monitoring the understanding of explanations
Our goal is to build a computational architecture that will monitor a human interlocutor’s moments of (non)understanding in multimodal ensembles. We will make artificial EXs able to reason about these and adapt their explanatory strategy. Utilizing a large corpus of explanations (MUNDEX), we integrate rich, multimodal signals with different ...
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
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 WIKO: Questions about explainable technology
WIKO integrates AI explanation research with public outreach, now focusing on advancing eXplainable AI (XAI) Literacy to foster understanding and reflection on transparent AI. Through self conceptualized and conducted Co-Construction workshops (CCWS), participants from different public sectors actively engage with AI systems, promoting critical ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
TRR 318-2 - Project INF: Retrieval-augmented information provision
INF provides foundations for all projects. These include services and infrastructure for data access, evaluation, and management as well as cross-cutting research questions. In the first funding period, the focus was on assessing the quality of explanations, modeling explanatory dialog sequences as well as ontology and tool development. In the ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029