[CogSci] Call for Abstracts: 4th TRR 318 Conference, Paderborn, Germany

[Amit Singh]

Dear colleagues,


On behalf of the organizing team, it is my pleasure to invite you to the 4th TRR 318 Conference.


The 4th TRR 318 Conference: Scaffolding Social XAI 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


Key Dates:

Deadline: 1 November 2026.

Notification of Acceptance: 10 December 2026.


Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 4th TRR 318 Conference.



Topics:


The interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Center TRR 318 Constructing Explainability explores the ways in which explanations are created, negotiated, andmade 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.<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trr3182027>

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 at trr318.uni-paderborn.de<mailto:conference at trr318.uni-paderborn.de>.



General chairs: Amit Singh, Josephine B. Fisher, Katharina J. Rohlfing

Program chairs: tbd

Speakers: tba



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Conference Organization

SFB/TRR 318 CONSTRUCTING EXPLAINABILITY


Universität Paderborn

SFB/TRR 318

Zukunftsmeile 2

33102 Paderborn


Phone +49 5251 60-4493<tel:+495251604493>

Email conference at trr318.uni-paderborn.de<mailto:conference at trr318.uni-paderborn.de>

Web trr318.de<https://trr318.uni-paderborn.de/>
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