Co-constructing explainability with an interactively learning robot (B05)

• Subject Area: Image and Language Processing, Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438445824

In close collaboration with Project Ö, Project B05 tackles the question of how explainability can be achieved through co-construction within learning task rather than an explicit explanation. More specifically, it investigates how explainees’ mental model about a learning robot is influenced by their gender, age, and workshops (from Project Ö that inform about AI in general and co-constructive AI in specific). This project’s theoretical contribution lies in the investigation of co-construction and its effect in a practice different from exlpanatory dialog and generates insights into the social con- textualization of explainability.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 318: Constructing explainability
• Applicant Institution: Universität Paderborn
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Anna-Lisa Vollmer