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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">On behalf of the organizing team, it is my pleasure to invite you to the 4<sup>th</sup> TRR 318 Conference. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The
<b>4th TRR 318 Conference: Scaffolding Social XAI</b> will be held <b>16–17 March 2027</b> in Paderborn, Germany.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We invite submissions of:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 4th TRR 318 Conference.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">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.“ </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Explainability as a social and interactional practice;</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Social XAI and critical perspectives on AI explainability;</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Everyday explanations in dyadic or group interaction;</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Explainability, interpretability, and transparency in human–AI or human–robot interaction;</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="text-transform: none;" role="presentation">The role of explanation in institutional, educational, clinical, or workplace settings;</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Critical engagement with explanatory tools, technologies, and design practices;</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="text-transform: none;" role="presentation">XAI literacy and critical use of AI in professional practices (e.g., educational assessment, diagnosis, decision-making);</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
<span style="text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Theoretical, empirical, and methodological approaches to studying explanation across disciplines.</span></li></ul>
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Submissions are managed via </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 167, 116);"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trr3182027" title="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trr3182027" data-outlook-id="f926bf12-3de8-410e-bc2c-b917917d35f1" style="color: rgb(31, 167, 116); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>EasyChair.</u></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Format Requirements: <br>
Please submit an extended abstract containing the following:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please indicate your preferred format within the submission.</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Publication: Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 4th TRR 318 Conference.</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">
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