The proposed research centre will align with the following TU Dublin priority research areas:
- Culture, Innovation and Inclusivity in a Changing Society.
- Health and Wellbeing for a Resilient Society.
- Transformative Digital Solutions
Along with this, it also aligns with the extremely important UN Sustainable Development Goals, as mentioned in the Research and Innovation Strategy Document of TU Dublin, and notably, they will support:
- Inclusive/equitable quality education, promoting life-long learning opportunities for all by equipping TU-Dublin with models and knowledge on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) that will allow interactive AI technology design and production, supporting the development of relevant skill sets in graduate and postgraduate programmes. [TU DUBLIN: Culture, Innovation and Inclusivity in a Changing Society]
- Developing resilient infrastructures and promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialisation by fostering innovation by deploying and exploiting XAI-based technologies that are transparent and responsible for inclusive design. [TU DUBLIN: Health and Wellbeing for a Resilient Society]
- This inclusive design will support the goal of reducing inequalities among people, allowing the development of interactive AI-based technologies aligned to individual differences that are responsible and trustworthy, promote wellbeing, minimise burnout, and maximise human performance. This supports the intent of TU Dublin to design novel solutions that support living and working in a balanced way. [TU DUBLIN Transformative Digital Solutions]
The research centre will extend research capacity and capability at TU Dublin in the domain of ICT, specifically in Artificial Intelligence. It will also create new research capacity and capability in other domains, including Environment, Energy-&-health-and-society, and culture-&-enterprise. In detail, to achieve such new forms of research capacity and capability, the main impact goals of the research centre are to:
- provide evidence of the utility of research in eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI) and resulting AI-based solutions on human-centred design outside computer science that are transparent, responsible, trustworthy, and aligned with humans.
- pave a new path for future primary research of xAI in other disciplines, supporting the vision of TU Dublin to enable truly inter-multi-trans disciplinary approaches to research that will have a significant theoretical impact (contribution to research capacity-building);
demonstrate the impact of research on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for humans (contribution to research-capability-building) in other application fields (outside ICT), including Education, Health, and Sustainable Technology Design.