The CITEC (Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology) has the following two job openings in the SFB TRR 318 [subproject A03 & A05]:
Research Positions in the SFB TRR 318 in the field of emotionally intelligent interactive systems
ID: Wiss25382
* start: 01.01.2026
* fulltime
* salary according to Remuneration level 13 TV-L
* fixed-term
The transregional collaborative research center (TRR) “Constructing Explainability- funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the Universities of Paderborn and Bielefeld, deals with explainable and explanatory artificial intelligence. The central hypothesis of the TRR is that explanations should be co constructed by dialogue partners so that humans can make confident and informed decisions when interacting with intelligent systems.
To this end, both universities aim to contribute basic research in the areas of co-constructive explanation processes and their mechanisms, explanation as a socio-technical phenomenon, and computational representations of the dynamics of co-constructive explanation. They bring together different disciplinary perspectives both at the level of individual projects and the TRR as a whole. The goal of the second funding phase is to develop more flexible, personalized, proactive explanation systems (sXAI) that take social and situational context into account when adapting their explanatory behavior.
Subprojects A03 and A05 investigate and model interactive explanations of AI decisions and suggestions with a special focus on emotions (A03) and negating/contrasting (A05) as powerful scaffolding strategies. In both projects an existing explanation model is to be extended by integrating context relevant features and an LLM-based dialogue system that can adapt explantions to heterogeneous users in the context of the task at hand. The development is being carried out in cooperation with project partners from the field of pycholinuistic and economics/behaviroal sciences and includes our own suer studies and the evaluation of the developed model.
The position will be filled subject to project approval.
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