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Description: The AI Forest installation is an indoor forest and interactive play environment that was first presented at the Ars Electronica Festival 2021 in Linz, Austria. The task of visitors was to find ten haptic mushroom objects in the bushes and scan them using a tablet. The virtual basket must be filled with as many different edible species as possible. An artificially intelligent mushroom identification app (Forestly), which was fed in advance with a large number of images of forest mushrooms, assists the players with advice. The purpose of the app is to identify mushroom species and classify them as edible or poisonous. In addition to its playful character, the AI Forest represents an innovative research environment in which questions about decision-making in teamwork with AI and about explainable artificial intelligence methods are investigated. The idea for the AI Forest originated in the research project HOXAI - Hands-on Explainable AI, in which the LIT Robopsychology Lab and the Visual Data Science Lab at JKU Linz are collaborating.