Projects from Michael Schaffer
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 - 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