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We examine how users perceive the limitations of an AI system when it encounters a task that it cannot perform perfectly and whether providing explanations alongside its answers aids users in constructing an appropriate mental model of the…

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Nowadays, we delegate many of our decisions to Artificial Intelligence (AI) that acts either in solo or as a human companion in decisions made to support several sensitive domains, like healthcare, financial services and law enforcement. AI…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Nicoleta Tantalaki , Athena Vakali

Extracting abstract causal structures and applying them to novel situations is a hallmark of human intelligence. While Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong performance on a wide range of reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Liangru Xiang , Yuxi Ma , Zhihao Cao , Yixin Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu

The field of eXplainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has produced a plethora of methods (e.g., saliency-maps) to gain insight into artificial intelligence (AI) models, and has exploded with the rise of deep learning (DL). However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Marvin Pafla , Kate Larson , Mark Hancock

The primary objective is to teach a machine about human emotions, which has become an essential requirement in the field of social intelligence, also expedites the progress of human-machine interactions. The ability of a machine to…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-23 Sai Nikhil Chennoor , B. R. K. Madhur , Moujiz Ali , T. Kishore Kumar

Given that Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly permeates our lives, it is critical that we systematically align AI objectives with the goals and values of humans. The human-AI alignment problem stems from the impracticality of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-05 John Nay , James Daily

This article presents a case study comparing the capabilities of humans and artificial intelligence (AI) for visual storytelling. We developed detailed instructions to recreate a three-panel Nancy cartoon strip by Ernie Bushmiller and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Uğur Önal , Sanem Sariel , Metin Sezgin , Ergun Akleman

If artificial intelligence (AI) is to be applied in safety-critical domains, its performance needs to be evaluated reliably. The present study aimed to understand how humans evaluate AI systems for person detection in automatic train…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Romy Müller

Deep Learning models like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are powerful image classifiers, but what factors determine whether they attend to similar image areas as humans do? While previous studies have focused on technological factors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Romy Müller , Marcel Dürschmidt , Julian Ullrich , Carsten Knoll , Sascha Weber , Steffen Seitz

A fundamental challenge in affective cognitive science is to develop models that accurately capture the relationship between external emotional stimuli and human internal experiences. While ANNs have demonstrated remarkable accuracy in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Haotian Deng , Chi Zhang , Chen Wei , Quanying Liu

While advancing rapidly, Artificial Intelligence still falls short of human intelligence in several key aspects due to inherent limitations in current AI technologies and our understanding of cognition. Humans have an innate ability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Apoorv Singh

We present a computational model for the semantic interpretation of symmetry in naturalistic scenes. Key features include a human-centred representation, and a declarative, explainable interpretation model supporting deep semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Jakob Suchan , Mehul Bhatt , Srikrishna Vardarajan , Seyed Ali Amirshahi , Stella Yu

This paper assumes the hypothesis that human learning is perception based, and consequently, the learning process and perceptions should not be represented and investigated independently or modeled in different simulation spaces. In order…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-09-28 Cristina M. Noaica , Robert Badea , Iulia M. Motoc , Claudiu G. Ghica , Alin C. Rosoiu , Nicolaie Popescu-Bodorin

When humans view scenes without a specific task (free-viewing), they initially direct their eye movements toward the scene center and then fixate on people, text, objects being gazed at or grasped, and semantically meaningful regions. What…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shravan Murlidaran , Ziqi Wen , Sana Shehabi , Miguel P. Eckstein

Humans judge perceptual similarity according to diverse visual attributes, including scene layout, subject location, and camera pose. Existing vision models understand a wide range of semantic abstractions but improperly weigh these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shobhita Sundaram , Stephanie Fu , Lukas Muttenthaler , Netanel Y. Tamir , Lucy Chai , Simon Kornblith , Trevor Darrell , Phillip Isola

The growing prevalence of realistic AI-generated videos on media platforms increasingly blurs the line between fact and fiction, eroding public trust. Understanding how people watch AI-generated videos offers a human-centered perspective…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Danqing Shi , Lan Jiang , Katherine M. Collins , Shangzhe Wu , Ayush Tewari , Miri Zilka

Abductive reasoning seeks the likeliest possible explanation for partial observations. Although abduction is frequently employed in human daily reasoning, it is rarely explored in computer vision literature. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Chen Liang , Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Yi Yang

Recent years have seen a boom in interest in machine learning systems that can provide a human-understandable rationale for their predictions or decisions. However, exactly what kinds of explanation are truly human-interpretable remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Menaka Narayanan , Emily Chen , Jeffrey He , Been Kim , Sam Gershman , Finale Doshi-Velez

Both humans and machine learning models learn from experience, particularly in safety- and reliability-critical domains. While psychology seeks to understand human cognition, the field of Explainable AI (XAI) develops methods to interpret…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Roussel Rahman , Aashwin Ananda Mishra , Wan-Lin Hu

In this paper, we advance the study of AI-augmented reasoning in the context of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), psychology and cognitive science, focusing on the critical task of visual perception. Specifically, we investigate the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Shravan Chaudhari , Trilokya Akula , Yoon Kim , Tom Blake