Integrating the technical model into the partner model in explanations of digital artifacts (A04)

• Subject Area: Developmental and Educational Psychology ; General and Domain-Specific Teaching and Learning ; Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438445824

Investigations in Project A04 focus on the models that explainers and explainees have about a specific technical domain. In particular, the project considers models of technical artifacts that are described in terms of their architecture and relevance. An open question investigated in the project is how the technical model of the explainee is integrated into the partner model of the explainer and in what way this integration process results in different practices of multimodal explaining that correspond to different forms of understanding. The aim is a dynamic model of explaining the properties of technical artifacts (architecture, relevance) to foster users’ agency.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 318: Constructing explainability
• Applicant Institution: Universität Paderborn
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Heike M. Buhl; Professorin Dr. Friederike Kern; Professor Dr. Carsten Schulte