EIS at RE’19
One of the biggest coups for EIS was to have a paper accepted at the renowned IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference during the project's planning grant period. Consequently, Maximilian Köhl and Timo Speith, two of the paper's authors, flew to South Korea to present...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
EIS goes green
At the invitation of the local university branch of the Fridays for Future movement, Kevin Baum gave a talk on digitization and climate change. Besides an overview of the direct and indirect effects of digital products, he also emphasized the need for better ways of...
EIS goes Athens: ESPP 2019
At the beginning of September, the EIS team contributed the interdisciplinary symposium on "Explainable Intelligent Systems and the Trustworthiness of Artificial Experts" for the third time. We presented at the 27th International Conference of the European Society for...
EIS Symposium at EuroCogSci 2019 in Bochum
The EIS team contributed an interdisciplinary symposium on "Explainable Intelligent Systems and the Trustworthiness of Artificial Experts" to the conference EuroCogSci, with Tina Feldkamp, Daniel Oster, Eva Schmidt, and Timo Speith as speakers. We used the symposium...
For Otherwise We Don’t Know What They Are Doing: Why AI Systems Need to Be Explainable
Intelligent systems increasingly support or take over human decisions. This development influences all areas of human life: Intelligent systems recommend new shows on streaming portals, support online searches by giving recommendations, automatically screen thousands...
New Blood for EIS
At the beginning of this month, Daniel Oster submitted his master's thesis entitled "Explanation Requirements Concerning Artificial Systems – How to Transmit Transparency from Designer Side to Non-Designer Side". Shortly thereafter, it was confirmed that Daniel has...