in den Kulturwissenschaften

TRR 318-2 - Constructing Explainability

The scope of the EU right to explanation has fueled the need to improve eXplainable Artificial Intelligence capacities aiming at strengthening the rights of individuals affected by AI-based recommendations. Among other purposes, explanations serve the right to contest an AI output and protect humans from being left out of control. However, ...

Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029

TRR 318-2 - Project A01: Adaptive explanation generation

Our aim is to investigate the adaptation mechanisms enabling partners to interactively construct an explanation, and then to imbue interactive XAI systems with similar capabilities. Based on results suggesting an interplay between interactive (verbal moves) and cognitive adaptivity (partner model), we developed a computational model for generating ...

Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029

TRR 318-2 - Project A02: Monitoring the understanding of explanations

Our goal is to build a computational architecture that will monitor a human interlocutor’s moments of (non)understanding in multimodal ensembles. We will make artificial EXs able to reason about these and adapt their explanatory strategy. Utilizing a large corpus of explanations (MUNDEX), we integrate rich, multimodal signals with different ...

Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029

TRR 318-2 - Project A04: Co-constructing duality-enhanced explanations

Technical artifacts can be explained via their Architecture (e.g., structure and mechanisms) and their Relevance (e.g., functions and goals)—summarized as Duality. We will analyze human-human explanations of digital artifacts with respect to duality-related monitoring and multimodal scaffolding and how it is tailored to EEs’ social roles, and ...

Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029

TRR 318-2 - Project A05: Contextualized and online parametrization of scaffolding in human–robot explanatory dialog

Negation and verbal contrast are important means of scaffolding. When negations are provided during explaining joint actions, they link the present knowledge about actions to those that have been performed in the past. We continue to develop scaffolding strategies for a dialog with a social robot in a joint action setting. Our long-term objective ...

Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029

TRR 318 - Project A04: Integrating the technical model into the partner model in explanations of digital artifacts

Project A04 investigates the different perspectives on the contents of explanations, i.e. what an explanation is about, and how they may change in the course of an explanatory interactive dialogue. An explanation about a technical artifact (which might be a hammer as well as a digital game) can encompass two different perspectives: On the one hand, ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025

TRR 318 - Project A05: Contextualized and online parametrization of attention in human–robot explanatory dialog

In Project A05, researchers from the areas of linguistics, psychology, and computer science are investigating attention in human-robot explanatory dialog. They are addressing questions including: where do humans focus their attention when a robot explains a task to them? How can robots direct their counterpart’s attention to achieve the goal of the ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025

TRR 318 - Project C01: Healthy distrust in explanations

The focus is on crucial overarching properties of decisions and explanations. The aim is to investigate the important question of how a person’s critical attitude towards an AI system can be supported by fostering a healthy distrust in intelligent systems, and whether and how this attitude can be reinforced by means of explainable machine learning ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025

TRR 318 - Project C04: Metaphors as an explanation tool

Project C04 investigates metaphors as a specific means to make difficult phenomena interpretable. The innovative aspect is to regard both highlighting and hiding processes when metaphors are utilized in explanations. The project aims to understand how metaphors may either facilitate or impede understanding, and how this understanding can be applied ...

Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025

Historical-critical digital edition of the manuscript version of Émilie Du Châtelet's Institutions de physique (Ms 12.265)

The Genesis of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique:From the Paris Manuscript (1738–40) to the Printed Editions (1740, 1742)The online edition can be read here.It is widely agreed that in the Institutions de Physique, Du Châtelet innovatively combines metaphysics and physics, creating a work that is not merely a textbook on natural ...

Duration: 01/2021 - 12/2024

Schultransform goes MINT

Duration: 11/2022 - 07/2023

Sprachliche Teilhabe in der Pflegeausbildung stärken (STePs) – schulische und pflegerische Praxis als Lerngelegenheit

STePs verfolgt als interdisziplinäres Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekt der Pflege- und Deutsch-als-Zweitsprache-Forschung/-Didaktik das Ziel, die sprachliche Teilhabe insbesondere migrationsbedingt mehrsprachiger Pflegeauszubildender an den Lernorten Schule und Praxis zu stärken, um erfolgreiche Ausbildungsverläufe zu ermöglichen. Hintergrund ...

Duration: 10/2022 - 09/2025

Knowledge transfer to and from quality management of teaching & learning at universities (WiaQM)

Knowledge production is considered a complex process that takes place under uncertainty and requires a high tolerance for ambiguity. This is especially true for quality management (QM) at universities, where research, teaching and administration, i.e. organizational areas with diverging functional logics, have to work closely together. The ...

Duration: 07/2022 - 06/2025

Digital higher education - organizing, teaching and learning

The aim of the joint project is to understand the lessons learned about online teaching at universities during the COVID-19 pandemic and to empirically reconstruct possible changes at an individual and organizational level. Building on this, recommendations for action for the design of digital university teaching are to be developed by developing ...

Duration: 07/2022 - 06/2024

Contact: Dr. Sylvi Mauermeister, Prof. Dr. Isabel Steinhardt

Meaningful Human Control - Autonomous Weapon Systems between Regulation and Reflexion

The development and application of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) is one of the most pressing problems of international security and peace. Stakeholders from politics, civil society, military, science and academia are debating controversially whether and to what extent the expansion of AI-based mechanized autonomy threatens a loss of human ...

Duration: 04/2022 - 03/2026

German Studies Partnership „Tunis – Carthage – Jendouba – Paderborn: Innovative German Studies in Tunisia“

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is funding the German Language, Literature and Culture: Institutional Partnership (GIP) between the Institute of German and Comparative Literature at Paderborn University and the Tunisian universities of Carthage (Tunis), Jendouba and La Manouba as part of the ‘Institutional Partnerships Worldwide ...

Duration: 01/2025 - 12/2027

CULSHY

Duration: 01/2024 - 12/2024

Erinnern, Bewahren, Vermitteln – Die Gedenkstätte Wewelsburg im Miniaturformat.

Paderborner Lehramtsstudierende der Fächer Kunst und Evangelische Theologie haben im Rahmen des Projekts „Die Wewelsburg – Kulturerbe hautnah“ Museumskoffer gestaltet. Bestückt mit verschiedenen Objekten und Materialien bieten die Koffer Gelegenheit, die Geschichte der Wewelsburg auf pädagogische Weise zu entdecken und zu erforschen. Ab Donnerstag, ...

Duration: 08/2022 - 09/2022

Cityrama - Straße als Atelier I-II

Wir bewegen uns täglich durch Straßen, flanieren und fahren auf ihr, überqueren sie oder tippen sie in Google Maps. Straßen, so scheint es, sind einfach da. Doch wo fängt die Straße an - wo hört sie auf? Sind Häuser, Geschäfte und Bäume, die sich an einer Straße befinden, auch Teil der Straße? Welche Rolle spielen die anderen Menschen, die auch in ...

Duration: 11/2021 - 06/2022

Tischruinen

In vielen künstlerischen Arbeiten der Gegenwartskunst erscheint der Tisch als Möbel, Modell oder Motiv. Der Tisch ist Anlass für regelmäßige Zusammentreffen, Treffpunkt sozialer Veranstaltungen, Träger von Dingen und Objekten und Fläche für Einschreibungen. Er strukturiert Handlungsabläufe und reglementiert soziale Ordnungen. Einen Großteil unserer ...

Duration: 05/2021 - 07/2021

Historical-critical digital edition of the manuscript version of Émilie Du Châtelet's Institutions de physique (Ms 12.265)

The Genesis of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique:From the Paris Manuscript (1738–40) to the Printed Editions (1740, 1742)The online edition can be read here.It is widely agreed that in the Institutions de Physique, Du Châtelet innovatively combines metaphysics and physics, creating a work that is not merely a textbook on natural ...

Duration: 01/2021 - 12/2024

INDIGO

The project “ Indigo – interkulturelle digitale Germanistik ohne Grenzen ” was initiated with a focus on research-based learning and the promotion of young talent at the interface between graduation and doctorate in 2021. An essential part of the project is the Indigo homepage. A platform is being created here that links all projects in ...

Duration: 09/2020 - 12/2024