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Providing explanations in response to user reviews is a time-consuming and repetitive task for companies, as many reviews present similar issues requiring nearly identical responses. To improve efficiency, this paper proposes a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Martin Obaidi , Nicolas Voß , Hannah Deters , Jakob Droste , Marc Herrmann , Jannik Fischbach , Kurt Schneider

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…

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In today's digitalized world, where software systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and complex, the quality aspect of explainability is gaining relevance. A major challenge in achieving adequate explanations is the elicitation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Hannah Deters , Laura Reinhardt , Jakob Droste , Martin Obaidi , Kurt Schneider

Explainability has become a crucial non-functional requirement to enhance transparency, build user trust, and ensure regulatory compliance. However, translating explanation needs expressed in user feedback into structured requirements and…

Modern software systems are becoming increasingly complex and opaque. The integration of explanations within software has shown the potential to address this opacity and can make the system more understandable to end-users. As a result,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Jakob Droste , Hannah Deters , Martin Obaidi , Kurt Schneider

The need for systems to explain behavior to users has become more evident with the rise of complex technology like machine learning or self-adaptation. In general, the need for an explanation arises when the behavior of a system does not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Mersedeh Sadeghi , Verena Klös , Andreas Vogelsang

With the recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence, an increasing number of decision-making tasks are delegated to software systems. A key requirement for the success and adoption of such systems is that users must trust…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Ingrid Nunes , Dietmar Jannach

Adding explanations to recommender systems is said to have multiple benefits, such as increasing user trust or system transparency. Previous work from other application areas suggests that specific user characteristics impact the users'…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Kathrin Wardatzky , Oana Inel , Luca Rossetto , Abraham Bernstein

Code reviews are central for software quality assurance. Ideally, reviewers should explain their feedback to enable authors of code changes to understand the feedback and act accordingly. Different developers might need different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Ratnadira Widyasari , Ting Zhang , Abir Bouraffa , Walid Maalej , David Lo

The complex nature of intelligent systems motivates work on supporting users during interaction, for example through explanations. However, as of yet, there is little empirical evidence in regard to specific problems users face when…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Malin Eiband , Sarah Theres Völkel , Daniel Buschek , Sophia Cook , Heinrich Hussmann

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

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

Recent studies showed that the dialogs between app developers and app users on app stores are important to increase user satisfaction and app's overall ratings. However, the large volume of reviews and the limitation of resources discourage…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Phong Minh Vu , Tam The Nguyen , Tung Thanh Nguyen

Privacy, security, and accessibility, like ethical concerns in mobile applications (a.k.a. apps), commonly subsumed under non-functional requirements, are generally reported by users through app reviews available in app stores. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Aakash Sorathiya , Gouri Ginde

Patients increasingly rely on online reviews when choosing healthcare providers, yet the sheer volume of these reviews can hinder effective decision-making. This paper summarises a mixed-methods study aimed at evaluating a proposed…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Eman Alamoudi , Ellis Solaiman

This paper presents a pipeline to detect and explain anomalous reviews in online platforms. The pipeline is made up of three modules and allows the detection of reviews that do not generate value for users due to either worthless or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 David Novoa-Paradela , Oscar Fontenla-Romero , Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas

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

As software systems grow increasingly complex, explainability has become a crucial non-functional requirement for transparency, user trust, and regulatory compliance. Eliciting explainability requirements is challenging, as different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Martin Obaidi , Jakob Droste , Hannah Deters , Marc Herrmann , Raymond Ochsner , Jil Klünder , Kurt Schneider

Context and Motivation: The increasing complexity of modern software systems often challenges users' abilities to interact with them. Taking established quality attributes such as usability and transparency into account can mitigate this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Martin Obaidi , Jakob Droste , Hannah Deters , Marc Herrmann , Jil Klünder , Kurt Schneider

As artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms make further inroads into society, calls are increasing from multiple stakeholders for these algorithms to explain their outputs. At the same time, these stakeholders, whether they…

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