Bielefeld University/Patrick Pollmeier
TRR 318 – Constructing Explainability (SFB)
The Collaborative Research Centres/Transregio "Constructing Explainability" (TRR 318), newly established by the DFG at Bielefeld University and Paderborn University on 1 July 2021, deals with the question of how transparency of algorithmic decisions can be created, especially through black-box methods of modern artificial intelligence.
The central hypothesis of TRR 318 is that explanations are most effective when they are co-constructed by the explainer and the recipient of the explanation. The mechanisms of this co-construction are investigated in an interdisciplinary consortium in order to create the basis for new paradigms of explanations in human-machine interaction and thus enable people to make sovereign and informed decisions in interaction with intelligent systems.
The TRR is divided into three areas:
A „Explaining process“,
B „Explanation as social practice“ and
C „Representing and computing explanations“
The areas are in turn divided into interdisciplinary sub-projects involving a total of 23 project managers from the disciplines of computer science, linguistics, media studies, Philosophy, psychology, sociology and economics at Bielefeld University and Paderborn University.
