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)

On March 18th and 19th 2021, the kick-off meeting of the “Augmented Auditive Intelligence” (A2I) project took place during the COVID-19 lockdown and thus “under special circumstances”, with participation of all project partners.

In addition to getting to know the project partners, their special competences and interests, the focus of the meeting was on the organization of communication and cooperation in the project and on the detailed planning of all work packages for the first project months. Topics, in particular, were the technical-functional state of the art and requirements analysis pending at the beginning of the project, the planning of a multi-sensor data acquisition study to create a database for the development of mechanical learning techniques, data quality and time synchronization, but also a discussion the concrete use cases that the project will address.