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Explanations are essential in software engineering (SE) and requirements communication, helping stakeholders clarify ambiguities, justify design choices, and build shared understanding. Online Q&A forums such as Stack Overflow provide…

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Machine learning systems have become popular in fields such as marketing, financing, or data mining. While they are highly accurate, complex machine learning systems pose challenges for engineers and users. Their inherent complexity makes…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Andrea Papenmeier , Gwenn Englebienne , Christin Seifert

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

As user demands evolve, effectively incorporating feature requests is crucial for maintaining software relevance and user satisfaction. Feature requests, typically expressed in natural language, often suffer from ambiguity or incomplete…

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Social media platforms today strive to improve user experience through AI recommendations, yet the value of such recommendations vanishes as users do not understand the reasons behind them. This issue arises because explainability in social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Banan Alkhateeb , Ellis Solaiman

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

Push notifications are brief messages that users frequently encounter in their daily lives. However, the volume of notifications can lead to information overload, making it challenging for users to engage effectively. This study…

Eliciting feedback from end users of NLP models can be beneficial for improving models. However, how should we present model responses to users so they are most amenable to be corrected from user feedback? Further, what properties do users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Chaitanya Malaviya , Subin Lee , Dan Roth , Mark Yatskar

AI based social media recommendations have great potential to improve the user experience. However, often these recommendations do not match the user interest and create an unpleasant experience for the users. Moreover, the recommendation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-26 AKM Bahalul Haque , A. K. M. Najmul Islam , Patrick Mikalef

Explainable artificial intelligence techniques are developed at breakneck speed, but suitable evaluation approaches lag behind. With explainers becoming increasingly complex and a lack of consensus on how to assess their utility, it is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Edward Small , Yueqing Xuan , Danula Hettiachchi , Kacper Sokol

Collaborative filtering systems heavily depend on user feedback expressed in product ratings to select and rank items to recommend. In this study we explore how users value different collaborative explanation styles following the user-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Ludovik Coba , Markus Zanker , Laurens Rook , Panagiotis Symeonidis

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

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…

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

The growing attention to artificial intelligence-based applications has led to research interest in explainability issues. This emerging research attention on explainable AI (XAI) advocates the need to investigate end user-centric…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 AKM Bahalul Haque , A. K. M. Najmul Islam , Patrick Mikalef

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

Automated decision systems (ADS) are increasingly used for consequential decision-making. These systems often rely on sophisticated yet opaque machine learning models, which do not allow for understanding how a given decision was arrived…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Jakob Schoeffer , Niklas Kuehl , Yvette Machowski

Explainable AI (XAI) aims to support appropriate human-AI reliance by increasing the interpretability of complex model decisions. Despite the proliferation of proposed methods, there is mixed evidence surrounding the effects of different…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Emma Casolin , Flora D. Salim , Ben Newell

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

Multi-media increases engagement and is increasingly prevalent in online content including news, web blogs, and social media, however, it may not always be beneficial to users. To determine what types of media users actually wanted, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Hayeong Song , Jennifer Healey , Alexa Siu , Curtis Wigington , John Stasko