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Interactive Collaborative Learning with Explainable Artificial Intelligence

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Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition (ICL 2022)

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In the summer term 2021, students of computer science have developed and implemented several variants of an Artificial Intelligence that is able to learn string patterns from examples. Every AI is able to answer questions about its behavior, thus, being Explainable AI (XAI). In the summer term 2022, such an XAI is deployed in higher education. Students are encouraged to collaboratively experiment with the XAI. The learning goal is to find out what the XAI is doing and why it is acting in the way observed. There is no need of a human teacher interference. Students learn collaboratively by interacting with the XAI and from chatting with the system about the way it is doing its job. In a sense, the XAI is a domain expert introducing students to its business and disseminating its topical knowledge when being asked to do so. The recent XAI deployment demonstrates the effectiveness of this approach.

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Acknowledgement

The German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has supported this work by an award for the authors’ concept of “Hypothesizing Explainable AI”.

The authors gratefully acknowledge the inspiring and productive exchange of ideas with Leonhard Bollmann, Hannes Dröse, Justin Kraft, Pascal Pflügner, Johannes Veith, Markus Weißflog, and Stefan Woyde. They all contributed to the XAI endeavor within the framework of our Learning Systems module in 2021. They all implemented their own XAI more or less similar to the one demonstrated in the present paper. In this way, they contributed abundant evidence for the possibility to provide Explainable AI to learn with and to learn from.

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    Oksana Arnold, Sebastian Golchert & Michel Rennert

  2. ADICOM Software, Frauentorstr. 11, 99423, Weimar, Germany

    Klaus P. Jantke

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Arnold, O., Golchert, S., Rennert, M., Jantke, K.P. (2023). Interactive Collaborative Learning with Explainable Artificial Intelligence. In: Auer, M.E., Pachatz, W., Rüütmann, T. (eds) Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition. ICL 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 633. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26876-2_2

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