April 26, 2024 at 10:00 (MEZ - in-person)
Title: Menschenzentrierte industrielle Künstliche Intelligenz: Ansätze zur Gestaltung akzeptierter und vertrauenswürdiger KI-basierter Services in der Produktion
Speaker: Janika Kutz (PhD student; supervisor: Thomas Lachmann)
Abstract: Der Vortrag dient als Probe für die Verteidigung meiner Doktorarbeit und gibt Einblick in zentrale Ergebnisse der Arbeit: KI-Systeme versprechen ein hohes Potenzial für industrielle Unternehmen. Der erfolgreiche Einsatz ist jedoch mit diversen Herausforderungen verbunden. Eine Möglichkeit diesen Herausforderungen zu begegnen ist die Gestaltung menschenzentrierter KI-Systeme. Wie dies im industriellen Umfeld gelingen kann, soll in dem Vortrag zusammenfassen erläutert werden.
Location: RPTU - Campus Kaiserslautern, Building 6
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Zoom Link:
https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/67565883647?pwd=NEpSdHN1eDNPbCtPU2RTRVdyZDFlZz09
May 03, 2024 at 10:00 (MEZ - in-person)
Title: Mental chronometry in the virtual world: How hand movements may paint the future of experimental psychology
Speaker: Omar Jubran (PhD student; supervisor: Thomas Lachmann)
Abstract: This work also demonstrates how preserving the legacy of prior well-established experimental paradigms in Virtual Reality (VR) is possible. The primary focus was exploring the utility of VR and continuous response tracking in psychological experiments. Continuous tracking elucidates the fine-grained dynamics of decision-making. Distributional methods, such as Survival analysis (SA) and my newly developed analysis method, Spatiotemporal Survival Analysis (StSA) served as the primary tool to analyze responses. This methodology sheds new light on classical paradigms and establishes a groundwork for future research aiming to unravel the complexities of cognitive processes in experimental contexts.
Location: RPTU - Campus Kaiserslautern, Building 6
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Zoom Link:
https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/67565883647?pwd=NEpSdHN1eDNPbCtPU2RTRVdyZDFlZz09
June 07, 2024 at 10:00 (MEZ - in-person)
Title: Divergent and Convergent Thinking: Investigating underlying Neural Mechanisms and the Significance for Creativity and Intelligence
Speaker: Vera Ymann (PhD student; supervisor: Thomas Lachmann)
Abstract: The evolutionary advantage of humanity can be attributed mainly to two abilities: intelligence and creativity. While the first enables us to reason, solve problems, learn from experience, and think abstractly; the latter enables us to change our way of thinking and generate novel strategies for overcoming obstacles we face.
In the structure-of-intellect model (Guilford, 1967), divergent and convergent thinking are conceptualized as two distinct operations. Divergent thinking is defined as the production of a set of ideas in regard to a given problem, while convergent thinking encompasses deductive processes that lead to one single solution. Furthermore, prior research indicated that both processes rely on working memory and related cognitive control mechanisms. Introducing a new methodological approach, we conducted two EEG studies to investigate neuronal signatures and temporal dynamics of divergent and convergent thinking beyond their shared working memory-related activity in the visuo-spatial as well as the verbal knowledge domain. Furthermore, I present resulting theoretical considerations, that suggest that divergent and convergent thinking processes might be more accurately represented on a continuum rather than a dichotomy.
Location: RPTU - Campus Kaiserslautern, Building 6
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Zoom Link:
https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/67565883647?pwd=NEpSdHN1eDNPbCtPU2RTRVdyZDFlZz09
June 14, 2024 at 10:00 (MEZ - in-person)
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Speaker: Lais Muntini (PhD student; supervisor: Thomas Lachmann)
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Location: RPTU - Campus Kaiserslautern, Building 6
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Zoom Link:
https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/67565883647?pwd=NEpSdHN1eDNPbCtPU2RTRVdyZDFlZz09
June 21, 2024 at 10:00 (MEZ - in-person)
Title: Majority English of heritage speakers
Speaker: Tatiana Pashkova (PhD student; supervisor: Shanley Allen)
Abstract: This dissertation focuses on heritage speakers - bilinguals who grow up speaking two languages: the language of their family, or the heritage language, and the main language of the larger society, or the majority language. We examine the majority language English of German, Greek, Russian and Turkish HSs in the USA and compare it to the English of monolingually-raised English speakers. The main conclusions are that heritage speakers exhibit a significant number of similarities in their majority English compared to monolingually-raised English speakers. The few observed differences do not point to qualitative shifts in the use of English by heritage speakers, but rather to slight quantitative dissimilarities in the frequencies of selected phenomena across registers. Overall, we concluded that heritage language maintenance did not have long-term negative consequences for the majority language of heritage speakers in our sample.
Location: RPTU - Campus Kaiserslautern, Building 6
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Zoom Link:
https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/67565883647?pwd=NEpSdHN1eDNPbCtPU2RTRVdyZDFlZz09
June 28, 2024 at 10:00 (MEZ - in-person)
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Speaker: John Gamboa (PhD student; supervisor: Shanley Allen & Maria Klatte)
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Location: RPTU - Campus Kaiserslautern, Building 6
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Zoom Link:
https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/67565883647?pwd=NEpSdHN1eDNPbCtPU2RTRVdyZDFlZz09
July 05, 2024 at 10:00 (MEZ - in-person)
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Location: RPTU - Campus Kaiserslautern, Building 6
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July 12, 2024 at 10:00 (MEZ - in-person)
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Location: RPTU - Campus Kaiserslautern, Building 6
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July 19, 2024 at 10:00 (MEZ - in-person)
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Location: RPTU - Campus Kaiserslautern, Building 6
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