It comes as no surprise when we say that we are living in turbulent times. As we are facing a global pandemic, organizers of conferences have taken precautionary measures. The spread of COVID-19 has affected our schedules, too. In the following, we will present our updated list of upcoming events. The Usability in Germany conference […]
Author: Jeanette Lang
Kevin Baum: two brand-new engagements
We are happy to announce that, besides EIS, Kevin has earned two brand-new engagements. First, he is now the vice-chair and active member of the Committee for Ethics in Security-Relevant Research at Saarland University. Second, he has been elected a permanent expert on ethical and societal issues for the Commission of Inquiry Digitization in Saarland. […]
Coming up…
It has been a while since we last made announcements but right now, we are excited to share some of the things we have been working on in silence. First, Timo Speith will give a talk at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics in Kaiserslautern, Germany. His talk will take place on March 5, 2020, […]
Our first workshop: Issues in Explainable AI
After months of preparation, we were happy to successfully launch our very first workshop “Issues in Explainable AI: Black Boxes, Recommendations, and Levels of Explanation” on September 30, 2019. Researchers from different disciplines gave their presentations in front of a broad and engaging audience. The interest in our workshop was so high that our workshop […]
Public outreach event at Saarbrücken town hall
Yesterday, the final part of our three-day workshop took place: the public discussion ”Erklärbare Intelligente Systeme: Verstehen. Verantwortung. Vertrauen.” (Explainable Intelligent Systems: Understanding. Responsibility. Trust.) We were happy that the Saarland University president Prof. Manfred J. Schmitt accepted our invitation and addressed the audience at the beginning of the evening. In his address, he expressed […]
EIS at the conference for industrial, organizational and economic psychology (AOW) 2019 in Braunschweig (September 26, 2019)
Last week, Lena Kästner and Markus Langer had the opportunity to present the topic Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) and the idea behind our research project Explainable Intelligent Systems (EIS) to an attentive audience at the AOW 2019. A fascinating discussion was prompted, following the presentation of the two researchers and after having bridged the terminological […]
Workshop: final program, abstracts, new location, …
You can now download the final version of our program as well as a compilation of abstracts on our workshop page. Please note that due to high demand, our workshop location has been changed to building E 2.1, room 0.1. In case you are not familiar with our campus, please find a map of it […]
A retreat in the woods
EIS is a highly interdisciplinary research project. For this reason, we have been working hard on bridging the gap between different faculties. Until now, we have been doing this on a mainly theoretical level, including (but not limited to) attending weekly meetings, explaining our domain-specific jargons to each other and attending talks together. This time, […]