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Explanatory information helps users to evaluate the suggestions offered by AI-driven decision support systems. With large language models, adjusting explanation expressions has become much easier. However, how these expressions influence…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Ayano Okoso , Mingzhe Yang , Yukino Baba

The increasing reliance on digital information necessitates advancements in conversational search systems, particularly in terms of information transparency. While prior research in conversational information-seeking has concentrated on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Weronika Łajewska , Damiano Spina , Johanne Trippas , Krisztian Balog

This work focuses on the context of software explainability, which is the production of software capable of explaining to users the dynamics that govern its internal functioning. User models that include information about their requirements…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Henrique Ramos , Mateus Fonseca , Lesandro Ponciano

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

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly prevalent in recommender systems, where LLMs can be used to generate personalized recommendations. Here, we examine how different LLM-generated explanations for movie recommendations affect…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yuanjun Feng , Stefan Feuerriegel , Yash Raj Shrestha

Decisions in organizations are about evaluating alternatives and choosing the one that would best serve organizational goals. To the extent that the evaluation of alternatives could be formulated as a predictive task with appropriate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Charles Wan , Rodrigo Belo , Leid Zejnilović

Explainability is motivated by the lack of transparency of black-box Machine Learning approaches, which do not foster trust and acceptance of Machine Learning algorithms. This also happens in the Predictive Process Monitoring field, where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Williams Rizzi , Marco Comuzzi , Chiara Di Francescomarino , Chiara Ghidini , Suhwan Lee , Fabrizio Maria Maggi , Alexander Nolte

There is a growing demand for transparency in search engines to understand how search results are curated and to enhance users' trust. Prior research has introduced search result explanations with a focus on how to explain, assuming…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Prerna Juneja , Wenjuan Zhang , Alison Marie Smith-Renner , Hemank Lamba , Joel Tetreault , Alex Jaimes

Clarifying questions are an integral component of modern information retrieval systems, directly impacting user satisfaction and overall system performance. Poorly formulated questions can lead to user frustration and confusion, negatively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hossein A. Rahmani , Xi Wang , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Emine Yilmaz

User-centered approaches have been extensively studied and used in the area of struggling search. Related research has targeted key aspects of users such as user satisfaction or frustration, and search success or failure, using a variety of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Luyan Xu , Xuan Zhou , Ujwal Gadiraju

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

There is considerable anecdotal evidence suggesting that software engineers enjoy engaging in solving puzzles and other cognitive efforts. A tendency to engage in and enjoy effortful thinking is referred to as a person's 'need for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Daniel Russo , Andres R. Masegosa , Klaas-Jan Stol

Automated decision making is used routinely throughout our everyday life. Recommender systems decide which jobs, movies, or other user profiles might be interesting to us. Spell checkers help us to make good use of language. Fraud detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Alexander Jung , Pedro H. J. Nardelli

Explainable systems expose information about why certain observed effects are happening to the agents interacting with them. We argue that this constitutes a positive flow of information that needs to be specified, verified, and balanced…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bernd Finkbeiner , Hadar Frenkel , Julian Siber

The growing complexity of software systems and the influence of software-supported decisions in our society awoke the need for software that is transparent, accountable, and trustworthy. Explainability has been identified as a means to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Larissa Chazette , Wasja Brunotte , Timo Speith

As practitioners increasingly deploy machine learning models in critical domains such as health care, finance, and policy, it becomes vital to ensure that domain experts function effectively alongside these models. Explainability is one way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Himabindu Lakkaraju , Dylan Slack , Yuxin Chen , Chenhao Tan , Sameer Singh

Software systems are increasingly making decisions on behalf of humans, raising concerns about the fairness of such decisions. Such concerns are usually attributed to flaws in algorithmic design or biased data, but we argue that they are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Ali Farahani , Liliana Pasquale , Amel Bennaceur , Thomas Welsh , Bashar Nuseibeh

For more than 30 years, it has been claimed that a way to improve software developers' productivity and software quality is to focus on people and to provide incentives to make developers satisfied and happy. This claim has rarely been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-05-06 Daniel Graziotin , Xiaofeng Wang , Pekka Abrahamsson

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes ubiquitous, the need for Explainable AI (XAI) has become critical for transparency and trust among users. A significant challenge in XAI is catering to diverse users, such as data scientists, domain…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Robert Nimmo , Marios Constantinides , Ke Zhou , Daniele Quercia , Simone Stumpf

Explanation is necessary for humans to understand and accept decisions made by an AI system when the system's goal is known. It is even more important when the AI system makes decisions in multi-agent environments where the human does not…