In today's world, almost every interaction between humans and the world is supported or mediated by AI – from social networks (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok) to e-commerce (e.g., Amazon), travel (e.g., Booking and Uber), medicine (e.g., 23andMe and Doctolib), and writing and search (e.g., ChatGPT). However, little research is currently being done on how to support this interaction in a human-centered way. So far, the focus has been on the algorithmic side of AI, while the actual interaction between people and these intelligent systems has tended to take a back seat.
With their joint research program, the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University aim to bring together experts from around the world who are working on both AI and Human-Centered Interaction (HCI) to advance research on human-centered AI systems.
The Joint Steering Committee (JSC) oversees and supports the program, with the following professors as members:
- Ralf Herbrich (HPI) and Patrick Baudisch (HPI) as well as
- James Landay (Stanford) and Michael Bernstein (Stanford)
The program comprises five project areas:
- Objective Functions for Human-Understandable Explainability
Project lead: Christoph Lippert (HPI), Sanmi Koyejo (Stanford) - Design of Social Computing Systems
Project lead: Ralf Herbrich (HPI), Michael Bernstein (Stanford) - AI-Assisted Fabrication Tools
Project lead: Patrick Baudisch (HPI), Maneesh Agrawala (Stanford) - AI-Assisted Human-Human lnteraction
Project lead: Gerard de Melo (HPI), Monica Lam (Stanford) - AI-Assisted Privacy-Preserving Smart Homes/Offices/Health Spaces
Project lead: Ralf Herbrich (HPI), James Landay (Stanford)
The program is open to all HPI PhD students. Therefore, you do not need to be part of the teams of the professors mentioned above to join. For further information, interested PhD students can get in touch with the following contacts:
Contact Persons
Marija Petrovic
Head of Academic Partnerships
Phone: +49 331 5509-308
Mail: marija.petrovic@hpi.de
Alina Pfeifer
Program Manager Academic Partnerships
Phone: +49 151 1815-1706
Mail: alina.pfeifer@hpi.de
Last change: 17/09/2024, Mareike-Vic Schreiber