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In the context of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), limited research has identified role-specific explanation needs. This study investigates the explanation needs of data scientists, who are responsible for training, testing,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Helmut Degen , Ziran Min , Parinitha Nagaraja

Providing meaningful and actionable explanations to end-users is a fundamental prerequisite for implementing explainable intelligent systems in the real world. Explainability is a situated interaction between a user and the AI system rather…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Garrick Cabour , Andrés Morales , Élise Ledoux , Samuel Bassetto

As automated decision-making solutions are increasingly applied to all aspects of everyday life, capabilities to generate meaningful explanations for a variety of stakeholders (i.e., decision-makers, recipients of decisions, auditors,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Niko Tsakalakis , Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon , Trung Dong Huynh , Luc Moreau

Explainability is crucial for complex systems like pervasive smart environments, as they collect and analyze data from various sensors, follow multiple rules, and control different devices resulting in behavior that is not trivial and,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Mersedeh Sadeghi , Lars Herbold , Max Unterbusch , Andreas Vogelsang

Explanations in Machine Learning come in many forms, but a consensus regarding their desired properties is yet to emerge. In this paper we introduce a taxonomy and a set of descriptors that can be used to characterise and systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Kacper Sokol , Peter Flach

Explanations for artificial intelligence (AI) systems are intended to support the people who are impacted by AI systems in high-stakes decision-making environments, such as doctors, patients, teachers, students, housing applicants, and many…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Gennie Mansi , Naveena Karusala , Mark Riedl

Algorithms play a crucial role in many technological systems that control or affect various aspects of our lives. As a result, providing explanations for their decisions to address the needs of users and organisations is increasingly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Trung Dong Huynh , Niko Tsakalakis , Ayah Helal , Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon , Luc Moreau

Explainability has been an important goal since the early days of Artificial Intelligence. Several approaches for producing explanations have been developed. However, many of these approaches were tightly coupled with the capabilities of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Shruthi Chari , Daniel M. Gruen , Oshani Seneviratne , Deborah L. McGuinness

The increasingly widespread application of AI models motivates increased demand for explanations from a variety of stakeholders. However, this demand is ambiguous because there are many types of 'explanation' with different evaluative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Yiheng Yao

In the last years many accurate decision support systems have been constructed as black boxes, that is as systems that hide their internal logic to the user. This lack of explanation constitutes both a practical and an ethical issue. The…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Riccardo Guidotti , Anna Monreale , Salvatore Ruggieri , Franco Turini , Dino Pedreschi , Fosca Giannotti

Recent work shows issues of consistency with explanations, with methods generating local explanations that seem reasonable instance-wise, but that are inconsistent across instances. This suggests not only that instance-wise explanations can…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Guilherme Paulino-Passos , Francesca Toni

The increasing incorporation of Artificial Intelligence in the form of automated systems into decision-making procedures highlights not only the importance of decision theory for automated systems but also the need for these decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Tarek R. Besold , Sara L. Uckelman

Explainability is a critical factor in enhancing the trustworthiness and acceptance of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, where decisions directly impact patient outcomes. Despite advancements in AI interpretability, clear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Michail Mamalakis , Héloïse de Vareilles , Graham Murray , Pietro Lio , John Suckling

The notion that algorithmic systems should be "transparent" and "explainable" is common in the many statements of consensus principles developed by governments, companies, and advocacy organizations. But what exactly do policy and legal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Matthew O'Shaughnessy

With Artificial Intelligence (AI) becoming ubiquitous in every application domain, the need for explanations is paramount to enhance transparency and trust among non-technical users. Despite the potential shown by Explainable AI (XAI) for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Aditya Bhattacharya

Explainable recommendation attempts to develop models that generate not only high-quality recommendations but also intuitive explanations. The explanations may either be post-hoc or directly come from an explainable model (also called…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yongfeng Zhang , Xu Chen

There is broad agreement that Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, particularly those using Machine Learning (ML), should be able to "explain" their behavior. Unfortunately, there is little agreement as to what constitutes an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Leilani H. Gilpin , Andrew R. Paley , Mohammed A. Alam , Sarah Spurlock , Kristian J. Hammond

Explainability is important for the transparency of autonomous and intelligent systems and for helping to support the development of appropriate levels of trust. There has been considerable work on developing approaches for explaining…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Michael Winikoff , John Thangarajah , Sebastian Rodriguez

Recently, requirements for the explainability of software systems have gained prominence. One of the primary motivators for such requirements is that explainability is expected to facilitate stakeholders' trust in a system. Although this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Lena Kästner , Markus Langer , Veronika Lazar , Astrid Schomäcker , Timo Speith , Sarah Sterz

In today's digitized world, software systems must support users in understanding both how to interact with a system and why certain behaviors occur. This study investigates whether explanation needs, classified from user reviews, can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Martin Obaidi , Kushtrim Qengaj , Jakob Droste , Hannah Deters , Marc Herrmann , Jil Klünder , Elisa Schmid , Kurt Schneider