Projects from Dr. Angela Grimminger
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 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 - Monitoring the understanding of explanations (Subproject A02)
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