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.
Related Publications
@inproceedings{Reipschlaeger2019,
author = {Patrick Reipschl\"{a}ger and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {DesignAR: Immersive 3D-Modeling Combining Augmented Reality with Interactive Displays},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces},
series = {ISS '19},
year = {2019},
month = {11},
isbn = {978-1-4503-6891-9},
location = {Daejeon, Republic of Korea},
pages = {29--42},
numpages = {13},
doi = {10.1145/3343055.3359718},
url = { https://doi.org/10.1145/3343055.3359718},
acmid = {3359718},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Augmented Reality, Interactive Surfaces, Augmented Displays, Touch+Pen Interaction, Design, 3D Modeling}
}
@inproceedings{peetz2019_bodyhub,
author = {Andreas Peetz and Konstantin Klamka and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {BodyHub: A Reconfigurable Wearable System for Clothing},
booktitle = {The 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Adjunct Proceedings},
year = {2019},
month = {10},
isbn = {978-1-4503-6817-9/19/10},
location = {New Orleans, Louisiana, USA},
numpages = {3},
doi = {10.1145/3332167.3357108},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3332167.3357108},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
keywords = {Wearable, E-Textiles, Smart Fabric, Rapid Prototyping, 3D Printing, Wearable Construction Kits, Modular System}
}
@inproceedings{Forberg2019,
author = {Jan Forberg and Annett Mitschick and Martin Voigt and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Interactive Exploration of Large Decision Tree Ensembles},
booktitle = {CHI 2019 Workshop on Human-Centered Machine Learning Perspectives},
series = {CHI '19},
year = {2019},
month = {5},
location = {Glasgow, UK, Scotland}
}
Student Theses
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