Research at IRIS
The interdisciplinary, cross-faculty research at IRIS focuses on changes in the world of work, education, and society triggered by the increasing presence of intelligent systems. In a range of research projects, IRIS members are investigating, for example, potential influences on political opinion formation, the division of labor in safety-critical contexts, usage dynamics in organizations, diversity-sensitive education, literary narratives, digital health enhancement, and ethical modeling. IRIS is connected to the Participation and Deliberation Labs (ZIRIUS) and the Platform for Reflection and Outrech (EXC SimTech).
- Funding: IRIS is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Research Council of the University of Stuttgart.
- DFG reference number: (UP 31/1)
- Project duration: 2019 - 2025
Reflecting Intelligent Systems for Diversity, Demography, and Democracy (IRIS3D), started January 2023 with three new Research Groups funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg)
These research groups are working to develop and carry out new research programs that contribute to the reflection on the societal impacts of intelligent systems related to the theme of the project.
IRIS3D is embedded in the Cyber Valley ecosystem and the interdisciplinary Stuttgart Research Focus Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS).
- Funding: Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg (funding scheme "Artificial Intelligence & Society")
- Duration: 04/2022 - 12/2026
Ongoing Research Projects
- Complexity Reduction, Explainability and Interpretability (KEI)
- Designing Democracy on Mars and Earth (DDME)
- Electric dreams: literary narratives as tools for critically reflecting on intelligent systems (IRIS Habilitation)
- Human-AI Teaming in Cockpit Systems (HAITICS)
- Measuring populism with AI (IRIS Discertation)
- Modelling and Simulation of Biomechanical Systems (IMSB)
- SoepSim - Improving agent-based modeling by utilizing large-scale survey data (SimTech)
- The Answering Machine (IMS)
- Influencing factors of human trust towards AI-based systems (IRIS Discertation)
Completed Projects
- Dynamics of polarization on online platforms and AI remedies (IRIS3D)
- Engaging student diversity in self-adaptive learning management systems through intelligent tutoring (IRIS3D)
- Generative AI and public reason – democratic Implications of LLM (IRIS3D)
- Powering up E-DELIBeration: towards AI-supported moderation (IMS)
- Reflecting on societal and organizational impacts of AI (SimTech)
- The influence of network structures on group fairness in online political discussions (IRIS3D)
- Thought experiments combined with physics simulations and machine learning in a human-AI learning context (IRIS3D)
- Towards human-robot co-agency: AI and feminist technoscience perspectives for diversity, demography, and democracy on human-robot-collaboration in architecture (IRIS3D)
- Use of neUrophysiological interfaces and tactile-assisted virtual reality to promote occupational InclusiOn (UFO)