TRR 318 - Monitoring the understanding of explanations (Subproject A02)
When something is being explained to someone, the explainee signals their understanding – or lack thereof – to the explainer with verbal expressions and other non-verbal means of communication, such as gestures and facial expressions. By nodding, the explainee can signal that they have understood. Nodding, however, can also be meant as a request to ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Contextualized and online parametrization of attention in human–robot explanatory dialog (Subproject A05)
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 Area RTG - Integrated Research Training Group
The Research Training Group (RTG) provides a framework for the structured qualification of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to prepare them to conduct interdisciplinay research. The RTG offers an extensive workshop program to help early career researchers develop their professional and personal skills and organizes events such as writing ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 12/2025
TRR 318 - Subproject C1 - 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 - Subproject C4 - 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
QPIC-1: Photonic Integrated Quantum Computer
Quantentechnologien werden einen transformativen Einfluss auf unsere Gesellschaft besitzen; insbesondere Quantencomputing welches den grundlegenden quantenmechanischen Effekt der Verschr?nkung für die effiziente Berechnung von Aufgaben verwendet, die mit einem klassischen Computer in realistischer Zeit nicht durchgeführt werden k?nnen. Zusammen mit ...
Duration: 07/2021 - 06/2025
Contact: Dr. Christof Eigner
Krisen historischen Lernens am Beispiel bilingualen Geschichtsunterrichts
The aim of the Phd project is to examine processes of historical learning in bilingual history classes. The project focuses both on communication in history classrooms and on student’s and teacher’s perspectives on history classes. The research is therefore based on videography of history lessons and individual interviews.
Duration: 06/2021 - 03/2027
PT symmetry and non-Hermitian physics in polariton condensates in semiconductor microcavities
Nicht-hermitesche physikalische Systeme erhalten immer mehr Aufmerksamtkeit, da sie viele einzigartige und unkonventionelle Eigenschaften zeigen. In Systemen, die durch einen nicht-hermiteschen Hamiltonoperator beschrieben werden, kann Parit?t-Zeit (PT) Symmetrie dazu führen, dass das System reelle Eigenenergieen aufweist; diese werden ...
Duration: 06/2021 - 12/2024
Tischruinen
In vielen künstlerischen Arbeiten der Gegenwartskunst erscheint der Tisch als M?bel, Modell oder Motiv. Der Tisch ist Anlass für regelm??ige Zusammentreffen, Treffpunkt sozialer Veranstaltungen, Tr?ger von Dingen und Objekten und Fl?che für Einschreibungen. Er strukturiert Handlungsabl?ufe und reglementiert soziale Ordnungen. Einen Gro?teil unserer ...
Duration: 05/2021 - 07/2021