Medical Assistance Systems

The Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TRR 318 is pleased to announce the publication of a new research article in the journal Cognitive Systems Research. The paper, titled “Forms of Understanding for XAI Explanations,” was co-authored by Britta Wrede and André Groß from the MAS research group.

The article addresses the fundamental question of what “understanding” means in the context of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). The interdisciplinary team of authors develops a model of different forms of understanding and demonstrates how these forms evolve during explanatory processes. In doing so, both enabledness (knowing how) and comprehension (knowing that) are considered central outcomes of explanations, each at varying levels of depth.

This publication makes an important contribution to the theoretical foundations of XAI and highlights key challenges involved in evaluating and fostering understanding in AI-generated explanations.