SICP - Software Innovation Campus Paderborn
The SICP - Software Innovation Campus Paderborn is an interdisciplinary research and innovation campus. The digital solutions of the future are developed here in close cooperation between business and science.
More than 30 member companies and over 30 professors from Paderborn University contribute their expertise and visions. The SICP unites the different worlds and ensures perfect matches when putting together project teams. We combine our expertise in the fields of AI, high-performance computing, IoT, digital security and software engineering to break new ground and develop intelligent solutions for innovative fields such as smart energy, advanced computing and seamless mobility.
In addition to the technological focus, we always address cross-cutting issues such as technology acceptance and human-machine interaction. Because we are convinced that only the intelligent combination of established technologies creates innovation!
„What makes the SICP special is our great team and the explicit focus of all our activities on cooperation between science, business and society in order to produce future-oriented and sustainable software- and data-driven innovations that generate high benefits.”
„Science can only shape a responsible digital future in cooperation with other social stakeholders. At the SICP, we conduct cutting-edge research that makes a difference: multidisciplinary, pioneering and with people at the center.”
„Cooperation and innovation are indispensable in the modern working world, but often end at company boundaries. At the SICP, research and application meet at eye level in a lively network in which we exchange knowledge in a spirit of trust and develop together.”
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Projekte
TRR 318-2 - Project A01: Adaptive explanation generation
Our aim is to investigate the adaptation mechanisms enabling partners to interactively construct an explanation, and then to imbue interactive XAI systems with similar capabilities. Based on results suggesting an interplay between interactive (verbal moves) and cognitive adaptivity (partner model), we developed a computational model for generating ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
TRR 318-2 - Project A02: Monitoring the understanding of explanations
Our goal is to build a computational architecture that will monitor a human interlocutor’s moments of (non)understanding in multimodal ensembles. We will make artificial EXs able to reason about these and adapt their explanatory strategy. Utilizing a large corpus of explanations (MUNDEX), we integrate rich, multimodal signals with different ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
TRR 318-2 - Project A04: Co-constructing duality-enhanced explanations
Technical artifacts can be explained via their Architecture (e.g., structure and mechanisms) and their Relevance (e.g., functions and goals)—summarized as Duality. We will analyze human-human explanations of digital artifacts with respect to duality-related monitoring and multimodal scaffolding and how it is tailored to EEs’ social roles, and ...
Duration: 01/2026 - 06/2029
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