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The human-centric explainable artificial intelligence (HCXAI) community has raised the need for framing the explanation process as a conversation between human and machine. In this position paper, we establish desiderata for Mediators,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Nils Feldhus , Ajay Madhavan Ravichandran , Sebastian Möller

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) systems need to include an explanation model to communicate the internal decisions, behaviours and actions to the interacting humans. Successful explanation involves both cognitive and social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Prashan Madumal , Tim Miller , Liz Sonenberg , Frank Vetere

Human collaborators can effectively communicate with their partners to finish a common task by inferring each other's mental states (e.g., goals, beliefs, and desires). Such mind-aware communication minimizes the discrepancy among…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Xiaofeng Gao , Ran Gong , Yizhou Zhao , Shu Wang , Tianmin Shu , Song-Chun Zhu

Meaningful human-AI collaboration requires more than processing language; it demands a deeper understanding of symbols and their socially constructed meanings. While humans naturally interpret symbols through social interaction, AI systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Reza Habibi , Seung Wan Ha , Zhiyu Lin , Atieh Kashani , Ala Shafia , Lakshana Lakshmanarajan , Chia-Fang Chung , Magy Seif El-Nasr

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

To achieve the promoted benefits of an AI symptom checker, laypeople must trust and subsequently follow its instructions. In AI, explanations are seen as a tool to communicate the rationale behind black-box decisions to encourage trust and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Claire Woodcock , Brent Mittelstadt , Dan Busbridge , Grant Blank

Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly shows its potential to outperform predicate logic algorithms and human control alike. In automatically deriving a system model, AI algorithms learn relations in data that are not detectable for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Simon Daniel Duque Anton , Daniel Schneider , Hans Dieter Schotten

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) systems, including intelligent agents, must be able to explain their internal decisions, behaviours and reasoning that produce their choices to the humans (or other systems) with which they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Mariela Morveli-Espinoza , Ayslan Possebom , Cesar Augusto Tacla

Several approaches have been developed for answering users' specific questions about AI behavior and for assessing their core functionality in terms of primitive executable actions. However, the problem of summarizing an AI agent's broad…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Pulkit Verma , Shashank Rao Marpally , Siddharth Srivastava

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents are increasingly embedded in collaborative learning environments, yet their impact on the processes of argumentative knowledge construction remains insufficiently understood. Emerging…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Lixiang Yan , Yueqiao Jin , Linxuan Zhao , Roberto Martinez-Maldonado , Xinyu Li , Xiu Guan , Wenxin Guo , Xibin Han , Dragan Gašević

Goal-oriented conversational agents are becoming prevalent in our daily lives. For these systems to engage users and achieve their goals, they need to exhibit appropriate social behavior as well as provide informative replies that guide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Yi-Chia Wang , Alexandros Papangelis , Runze Wang , Zhaleh Feizollahi , Gokhan Tur , Robert Kraut

This is an integrative review that address the question, "What makes for a good explanation?" with reference to AI systems. Pertinent literatures are vast. Thus, this review is necessarily selective. That said, most of the key concepts and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Shane T. Mueller , Robert R. Hoffman , William Clancey , Abigail Emrey , Gary Klein

In most conversations about explanation and AI, the recipient of the explanation (the explainee) is suspiciously absent, despite the problem being ultimately communicative in nature. We pose the problem `explaining AI systems' in terms of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Dylan Cope , Peter McBurney

An explainable AI (XAI) model aims to provide transparency (in the form of justification, explanation, etc) for its predictions or actions made by it. Recently, there has been a lot of focus on building XAI models, especially to provide…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Arjun Akula , Song-Chun Zhu

To bring robots into human everyday life, their capacity for social interaction must increase. One way for robots to acquire social skills is by assigning them the concept of identity. This research focuses on the concept of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Amar Halilovic , Senka Krivic

Adoption and deployment of robotic and autonomous systems in industry are currently hindered by the lack of transparency, required for safety and accountability. Methods for providing explanations are needed that are agnostic to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Konstantinos Gavriilidis , Andrea Munafo , Wei Pang , Helen Hastie

To be helpful assistants, AI agents must be aware of their own capabilities and limitations. This includes knowing when to answer from parametric knowledge versus using tools, when to trust tool outputs, and when to abstain or hedge. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Jacob Eisenstein , Reza Aghajani , Adam Fisch , Dheeru Dua , Fantine Huot , Mirella Lapata , Vicky Zayats , Jonathan Berant

AI enabled chat bots have recently been put to use to answer customer service queries, however it is a common feedback of users that bots lack a personal touch and are often unable to understand the real intent of the user's question. To…

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled the development of AI agents that exhibit increasingly human-like behaviors, including planning, adaptation, and social dynamics across diverse, interactive, and open-ended…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-13 Lin Chen , Yunke Zhang , Jie Feng , Haoye Chai , Honglin Zhang , Bingbing Fan , Yibo Ma , Shiyuan Zhang , Nian Li , Tianhui Liu , Nicholas Sukiennik , Keyu Zhao , Yu Li , Ziyi Liu , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

Explainable artificial intelligence is a research field that tries to provide more transparency for autonomous intelligent systems. Explainability has been used, particularly in reinforcement learning and robotic scenarios, to better…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Francisco Cruz , Charlotte Young , Richard Dazeley , Peter Vamplew