The Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 248 “Foundations of Perspicuous Software Systems” aims at enabling comprehension in a cyber-physical world with the human in the loop.
From autonomous vehicles to Industry 4.0, from smart homes to smart cities – increasingly computer programs participate in actions and decisions that affect humans. However, our understanding of how these applications interact and what is the cause of a specific automated decision is lagging far behind.
With the increase in cyber-physical technology impacting our lives, the consequences of this gradual loss in understanding are becoming severe. Systems lack support for making their behaviour plausible to their users. And even for technology experts it is nowadays virtually impossible to provide scientifically well-founded answers to questions about the exact reasons that lead to a particular decision, or about the responsibility for a malfunctioning.
The root cause of the problem is that contemporary systems do not have any built-in concepts to explicate their behaviour. They calculate and propagate outcomes of computations, but are not designed to provide explanations. They are not perspicuous.
Seamless support for perspicuity is a formidable and largely unsolved scientific challenge. The Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 248 takes up this challenge. It lays the scientific foundations for designing, analysing and interacting with computerised systems that explicate their functioning. We call them Perspicuous Systems.
You can visit the project’s official website for further information.
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Student Theses
Magic AR Lenses for Information Visualization on Large Displays
Remke Dirk Albrecht April 13th, 2020 until September 14th, 2020
Supervision: Patrick Reipschläger, Tamara Flemisch, Raimund Dachselt
Combining Interactive Surfaces and Augmenting Reality for the Visualization of Multivariate Data in Node-Link-Diagrams
Jonas Fohry December 6th, 2019 until February 21st, 2020
Supervision: Tamara Flemisch, Patrick Reipschläger, Raimund Dachselt
Novel Approaches for Visualizing and Interacting with Data on Smartwatches
Anselm Bunsen June 7th, 2019 until August 23rd, 2019
Supervision: Tom Horak, Konstantin Klamka, Raimund Dachselt
Visualizing Model Checking Results of Hyperproperties and Information Flow
Dennis Dimov February 3rd, 2020 until May 18th, 2020
Supervision: Tamara Flemisch, Tom Horak, Weizhou Luo, Raimund Dachselt
Design and Implementation of an Interactive Visualization for AI Explainability
Soorya M December 1st, 2019 until March 8th, 2020
Supervision: Tamara Flemisch, Annett Mitschick, Raimund Dachselt
Redesign and Implementation of an Interactive Visualization for AI Explainability
Julián Jesús Méndez Oconitrillo December 1st, 2019 until March 8th, 2020
Supervision: Tamara Flemisch, Annett Mitschick, Raimund Dachselt
Active Learning: Optimized Sample Selection for Data Labeling
Jan Philipp Simon Langen October 1st, 2019 until January 31st, 2020
Supervision: Annett Mitschick, Raimund Dachselt