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A System's Approach Taxonomy for User-Centred XAI: A Survey

Artificial Intelligence 2023-03-07 v1 Human-Computer Interaction

Abstract

Recent advancements in AI have coincided with ever-increasing efforts in the research community to investigate, classify and evaluate various methods aimed at making AI models explainable. However, most of existing attempts present a method-centric view of eXplainable AI (XAI) which is typically meaningful only for domain experts. There is an apparent lack of a robust qualitative and quantitative performance framework that evaluates the suitability of explanations for different types of users. We survey relevant efforts, and then, propose a unified, inclusive and user-centred taxonomy for XAI based on the principles of General System's Theory, which serves us as a basis for evaluating the appropriateness of XAI approaches for all user types, including both developers and end users.

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@article{arxiv.2303.02810,
  title  = {A System's Approach Taxonomy for User-Centred XAI: A Survey},
  author = {Ehsan Emamirad and Pouya Ghiasnezhad Omran and Armin Haller and Shirley Gregor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.02810},
  year   = {2023}
}
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