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Explainability and transparency of AI systems are undeniably important, leading to several research studies and tools addressing them. Existing works fall short of accounting for the diverse stakeholders of the AI supply chain who may…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Agathe Balayn , Lorenzo Corti , Fanny Rancourt , Fabio Casati , Ujwal Gadiraju

Recommender systems rely heavily on user feedback to learn effective user and item representations. Despite their widespread adoption, limited attention has been given to the uncertainty inherent in the feedback used to train these systems.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Bruno Sguerra , Viet-Anh Tran , Romain Hennequin , Manuel Moussallam

Existing AI disclosure mandates in scholarship require that AI assistance be reported but leave transparency philosophically unspecified: they fix the duty without explaining what the duty serves. We argue that ethical inquiry is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Michele Loi

Algorithmic systems make decisions that have a great impact in our lives. As our dependency on them is growing so does the need for transparency and holding them accountable. This paper presents a model for evaluating how transparent these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Yiannis Kanellopoulos

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) providers have a responsibility to develop valid and reliable systems. Much has been discussed about trusting AI and ML inferences (the process of running live data through a trained AI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Dalmo Cirne , Veena Calambur

The role of trust within Human-Computer Interaction is being redefined. With the increasing omnipresence, autonomy, and opacity of technology, users often struggle to understand the capabilities and limitations of systems. In this article,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Gabriela Beltrão , Debora F. de Souza , Sonia Sousa , David Lamas

Much of the complexity of Recommender Systems (RSs) comes from the fact that they are used as part of more complex applications and affect user experience through a varied range of user interfaces. However, research focused almost…

Trust is essential for our interactions with others but also with artificial intelligence (AI) based systems. To understand whether a user trusts an AI, researchers need reliable measurement tools. However, currently discussed markers…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Martin Johannes Dechant , Olga Lukashova-Sanz , Siegfried Wahl

The question of \emph{knowledge}, \emph{truth} and \emph{trust} is explored via a mathematical formulation of claims and sources. We define truth as the reproducibly perceived subset of knowledge, formalize sources as having both generative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Aravind R. Iyengar

In this paper we propose and develop a relatively simple and efficient approach for estimating unknown elements of a user-rating matrix in the context of a recommender system (RS). The critical theoretical property of the method is its…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Jeffrey Uhlmann

Recommender Systems (RSs) aim to provide personalized recommendations for users. A newly discovered bias, known as sentiment bias, uncovers a common phenomenon within Review-based RSs (RRSs): the recommendation accuracy of users or items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Le Pan , Yuanjiang Cao , Chengkai Huang , Wenjie Zhang , Lina Yao

The opaque nature of many intelligent systems violates established usability principles and thus presents a challenge for human-computer interaction. Research in the field therefore highlights the need for transparency, scrutability,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Malin Eiband , Daniel Buschek , Heinrich Hussmann

Trust models are widely used in various computer science disciplines. The main purpose of a trust model is to continuously measure trustworthiness of a set of entities based on their behaviors. In this article, the novel notion of "rational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Mehrdad Nojoumian

Trust in human-robot interactions (HRI) is measured in two main ways: through subjective questionnaires and through behavioral tasks. To optimize measurements of trust through questionnaires, the field of HRI faces two challenges: the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Meia Chita-Tegmark , Theresa Law , Nicholas Rabb , Matthias Scheutz

Service and assistive robots are increasingly being deployed in dynamic social environments; however, ensuring transparent and explainable interactions remains a significant challenge. This paper presents a multimodal explainability module…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Oluwadamilola Sotomi , Devika Kodi , Aliasghar Arab

Building trustworthy AI systems for mental health support is a shared priority across stakeholders from multiple disciplines. However, "trustworthy" remains loosely defined and inconsistently operationalized. AI research often focuses on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Xin Sun , Yue Su , Yifan Mo , Qingyu Meng , Yuxuan Li , Saku Sugawara , Mengyuan Zhang , Charlotte Gerritsen , Sander L. Koole , Koen Hindriks , Jiahuan Pei

With the increasing scale, complexity, and heterogeneity of the next generation networked systems, seamless control, management, and security of such systems becomes increasingly challenging. Many diverse applications have driven interest…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-19 Anousheh Gholami , Nariman Torkzaban , John S. Baras

This paper examines the ethical and anthropological challenges posed by AI-driven recommender systems (RSs), which increasingly shape digital environments and social interactions. By curating personalized content, RSs do not merely reflect…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Octavian M. Machidon

Human trust in automation plays an essential role in interactions between humans and automation. While a lack of trust can lead to a human's disuse of automation, over-trust can result in a human trusting a faulty autonomous system which…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Kumar Akash , Griffon McMahon , Tahira Reid , Neera Jain

The field of AI alignment is increasingly concerned with the questions of how values are integrated into the design of generative AI systems and how their integration shapes the social consequences of AI. However, existing transparency…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Atrisha Sarkar , Isam Faik