On March 23, 2021, the kick-off meeting of the BMBF funding line ‘Adaptive Technologies for Society – Intelligent Interaction of Humans and AI (MeKI)’ took place under the leadership of the project management organization VDI/VDE-IT.

All nine projects of the funding line introduced themselves to each other, with the A2I project being presented by project coordinator Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Hein. Subsequently, the topics “cross-partner information exchange”, “evaluation and user integration under current conditions” and “current regulations for artificial intelligence” were discussed in three parallel workshops.

An overview of all projects in the MeKI funding line can be found at https://www.interaktive-technologien.de/foerderung/bekanntmachungen/meki.

Download: A2I presentation (german, PDF, 1 MB)

Together with 11 CI patients, our team developed different patient journeys, derived from the personal experiences of the participants. Through brainwriting methods and card sorting, new insights were gained and existing theses could be reviewed as well as their individual aspects were hierarchized.

The workshop participants showed a broad knowledge of technology and audiological issues and sensitized the consortium to the psychosocial aspects associated with CI care.