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The focus area "Foundations and Implications of Human-AI Teamwork" (FAITH) investigates the fundamental design possibilities and limitations of "Human-AI Teamwork" - a collaboration between humans and AI in which both use their different skills in a targeted, situation-specific and coordinated manner to jointly solve a task. FAITH contributes to a deeper understanding of how novel "hybrid teams" can be formed, how AI systems must be equipped for this, and how the composition and design of such teams affect their effectiveness, efficiency or cohesion.

Our interdisciplinary approach considers - for the first time in an integrated way - the technological, linguistic, sociological and psychological foundations of human-AI teamwork and explores the effects on people as well as the organisation and quality of work. The following topics are addressed in particular:

  • the embedding of Human-AI teams in structures, policies and practices of the working world as well as the necessary organisational framework conditions for this
  • the relational prerequisites for human-AI teamwork such as autonomy, fairness, competence, trust, belonging and privacy
  • new methods of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Interaction Technology for the development of machine team members (e.g. knowledge modelling, interactive machine learning, situation recognition, planning/decision processes, speech/dialogue processing, collaborative robotics)
  • the establishment of functional team processes and structures in Human-AI teams, e.g. ad hoc team formation, role negotiation, division of labour, conflict management, cohesion
  • the communicative mechanisms of situated collaboration in multi-agent settings
  • the effects of Human-AI teams on the quality of work and competitiveness in real application contexts and companies

FAITH is one of 12 focus areas at Bielefeld University, established as part of the university-wide profiling process. Through networking measures (research proposals, scenario development, organisation of seminars, colloquia, workshops, development of teaching offers), a university-wide thematic focus is to be created that will shape the university in research and teaching.

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