Dear Colleagues, we are the TRR 318 Constructing Explainability and are hosting the 4th TRR 318 Conference: Scaffolding Social XAI which will be held 16–17 March 2027 in Paderborn, Germany. Website: https://trr318.uni-paderborn.de/konferenzen/scaffolding-social-xai We invite submissions of: Extended Abstracts: 2 pages - Deadline: 1 November 2026. ________________________________________ CfP: 4th TRR 318 Conference: Scaffolding Social XAI ________________________________________ https://trr318.uni-paderborn.de/konferenzen/scaffolding-social-xai 16–17 March 2027 in Paderborn, Germany 4th TRR 318 Conference: Scaffolding Social XAI We invite submissions to explore, extend, and consolidate the interdisciplinary boundaries of this exciting research field. ________________________________________ Important Deadlines Extended Abstracts: (2 pages including references) deadline: 1 November 2026. Notification of Acceptance: 10 December 2026. ________________________________________ Speakers: tba ________________________________________ Topics ________________________________________ The interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center TRR 318 Constructing Explainability explores the ways in which explanations are created, negotiated, and made meaningful across contexts. Previous editions have addressed dimensions of explanation, including understanding and contextualising. The 4th TRR 318 Conference turns to a perspective that has recently gained increasing attention in explainability research: Social XAI (sXAI), which conceptualises explainability as a social practice. Accordingly, the topic of the upcoming conference is "Scaffolding Social XAI." By scaffolding, we refer to the social and communicative supports that enable critical and interactive engagement with ideas, assumptions, technologies, and tools. This encompasses the ability to critically interrogate AI-generated outputs in practice (e.g., in educational contexts such as assessment or diagnosis), including emerging forms of XAI literacy as a situated competence. We invite contributions from a wide range of disciplines that address explainability as a social phenomenon, including work on: (a) explanatory practices in dyadic interaction; (b) explainability and interpretability in AI systems; or (c) explanation processes embedded in institutional and organisational settings. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): • Explainability as a social and interactional practice; • Social XAI and critical perspectives on AI explainability; • Everyday explanations in dyadic or group interaction; • Explainability, interpretability, and transparency in human–AI or human–robot interaction; • The role of explanation in institutional, educational, clinical, or workplace settings; • Critical engagement with explanatory tools, technologies, and design practices; • XAI literacy and critical use of AI in professional practices (e.g., educational assessment, diagnosis, decision-making); • Theoretical, empirical, and methodological approaches to studying explanation across disciplines. ________________________________________ Submission Instructions Submissions are managed via EasyChair. Format Requirements: Please submit an extended abstract containing the following: • Length: 2 pages (including references). • Content: Title, author name(s), affiliation(s), email address(es), and 4–5 keywords. • Template: Please use the provided Word or LaTeX template. Presentation Formats: Accepted contributions may be presented as: • A 20-minute oral presentation • A poster Please indicate your preferred format within the submission. ________________________________________ Additional Information • Publication: Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 4th TRR 318 Conference. • Contact: Should you have any queries, please contact us at conference@trr318.uni-paderborn.de. General chairs: Amit Singh, Josephine B. Fisher, Katharina J. Rohlfing Program chairs: tbd — Conference Organization SFB/TRR 318 CONSTRUCTING EXPLAINABILITY
Universität Paderborn SFB/TRR 318 Zukunftsmeile 2 33102 Paderborn
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