Osnabrück University researchers develop AI-supported automated documentation of experimental designs in Osnabrück, Germany; reduces documentation workload and boosts open science
Osnabrück University researchers develop AI-supported automated documentation of experimental designs in Osnabrück, Germany; reduces documentation workload and boosts open science Better research thanks to “SweetPea”: How AI makes scientific experiments more transparent: Uni Osnabrück Better research thanks to “SweetPea”: How AI makes scientific experiments more transparent With “SweetPea”, Osnabrück University is working on new AI-supported approaches to make scientific experiments easier to plan, understand and reproduce. How can scientific experiments be made more transparent, efficient and reproducible? This question is the focus of the international research project “SweetPea: Automating the Implementation and Documentation of Unbiased Experimental Designs”, in which Osnabrück University is participating. The project is funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF).Junior Professor Sebastian Musslick from the Institute of Cognitive Science at Osnabrück University will implement the project together with researchers from Princeton University, the University of Utah and Brown University.Experimental designs form the basis of empirical research. In many scientific disciplines, variables are manipulated in order to investigate cause-and-effect relationships. “However, the increasing complexity of modern experiments also increases the difficulty of designing experimental procedures in such a way that unintentional bias or so-called confounding is avoided,” explains Musslick. Experimental sequences are often still created manually or simply put together randomly - procedures that are either time-consuming or could promote hidden biases. ...