In Focus
Developing Explanations Together
How can humans make sense of decisions made by machines? How can artificial intelligence (AI) become something that is understandable? It is frequently the case that technical explanations require prior knowledge about how AI works and are difficult to follow. In the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre “Constructing Explainability” (TRR 318), researchers from the Universities of Bielefeld and Paderborn are exploring how to integrate users in explanatory processes. Learn more
This focus of research is concerned with capabilities and mechanisms that enable agents such as humans, robots, and AI to act, communicate, and learn alone or together in complex environments. The heart of this strategic research area is the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC). While CITEC involves researchers from computer science, biology, psychology, sports science, and linguistics, the strategic research area reaches out beyond these disciplines to include health sciences, law, sociology, business administration and economics as well as philosophy with a focus on the impact of technical interactive intelligent systems on all relevant societal domains. There is close cooperation with national and international strategic partners both from industry and from the public sector (e.g. Miele, Bertelsmann, Honda, and the von Bodelschwingh Foundation).
- Faculties Involved
- Central Academic Institutes and Other Academic Institutes Involved
- Major Contributing Projects and Initiatives
current projects:
- CRC TRR 318 Constructing Explainability (DFG)
- SPP 1999: Robust Argumentation Machines - RATIO (DFG)
- PREDICT - The Future of Prediction: The Social Consequences of Algorithmic Forecast in Insurance, Medicine and Policing (ERC Advanced Grant)
- Smart Water Futures: designing the next generation of urban drinking water systems (ERC Synergy Grant)
- Prof. Dr. Yaochu Jin (Alexander von Humboldt Professorship for Artificial Intelligence)
- Bots Building Bridges (3B): Theoretical, Empirical, and Technological Foundations for Systems that Monitor and Support Political Deliberation Online (VolkswagenStiftung)
- it's owl (MWIDE NRW)
- Research Training Group "Trustworthy AI for Seamless Problem Solving: Next Generation Intelligence Joins Robust Data Analysis (Data-NInJA)" (MKW NRW)
- Netzwerke 2021: SustAInable Life-cycle of Intelligent Socio-Technical Systems (SAIL) (MKW NRW)
- Ranking according to DFG Funding Atlas 2021