37.3087, Calls: 4th TRR 318 Conference: Scaffolding Social XAI (Germany)

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Date: 26-Sep-2026
From: Dr. Josephine B. Fisher [conference at trr318.uni-paderborn.de]
Subject: 4th TRR 318 Conference: Scaffolding Social XAI


Full Title: 4th TRR 318 Conference: Scaffolding Social XAI
Theme: Constructing Explainability: Scaffolding Social XAI

Date: 16-Mar-2027 - 17-Mar-2027
Location: Paderborn, Germany
Web Site:
https://trr318.uni-paderborn.de/en/conferences/scaffolding-social-xai

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science;
Computational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2026

Call for Papers:
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 of the conference have addressed different 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 conceptualizes 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 also 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. This may include work on, (a)
explanatory practices in dyadic interaction (b) explainability and
interpretability in AI systems, or (c) explanation processes embedded
in institutional and organizational settings.
Topics:
Possible contributions 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
Format of Submissions:
Please submit an extended abstract with the following information:
- 2 pages, including references
- title
- author name(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es)
- 4–5 keywords
Please use our word or latex template (from here
https://trr318.uni-paderborn.de/konferenzen/scaffolding-social-xai)
for your submission and submit your extended abstract via EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trr3182027) until 01.11.2026.
Notifications of acceptance: 10.12.2026.
The accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 4th
TRR 318 Conference.
Formats of Presentations:
Presentations may be presented in a 20-minute oral presentation or as
a poster. Please indicate your preferred format within the submission.
Travel funds are available for national (up to 200€) and international
(up to 400€) early-career researchers who do not have any other travel
funds. In case you would like to apply, please send an informal
application to conference at trr318.uni-paderborn.de.
In­vi­ted Spea­kers:
Paula Helm (C3S Frankfurt)
Brian Lim (National University of Singapore)



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