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Explainability, i.e. the ability of a system to explain its behavior to users, has become an important quality of software-intensive systems. Recent work has focused on methods for generating explanations for various algorithmic paradigms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Max Unterbusch , Mersedeh Sadeghi , Jannik Fischbach , Martin Obaidi , Andreas Vogelsang

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

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

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Martin Obaidi , Kushtrim Qengaj , Jakob Droste , Hannah Deters , Marc Herrmann , Jil Klünder , Elisa Schmid , 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

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

A core assumption of Explainable AI (XAI) is that explanations are useful to users -- that is, users will do something with the explanations. Prior work, however, does not clearly connect the information provided in explanations to user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Gennie Mansi , Julia Kim , Mark Riedl

Human-centered explainability has become a critical foundation for the responsible development of interactive information systems, where users must be able to understand, interpret, and scrutinize AI-driven outputs to make informed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yuhao Zhang , Jiaxin An , Ben Wang , Yan Zhang , Jiqun Liu

Interest in the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence has been growing for decades and has accelerated recently. As Artificial Intelligence models have become more complex, and often more opaque, with the incorporation of complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Shruthi Chari , Daniel M. Gruen , Oshani Seneviratne , Deborah L. McGuinness

Explainability has been a goal for Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems since their conception, with the need for explainability growing as more complex AI models are increasingly used in critical, high-stakes settings such as healthcare.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Shruthi Chari , Oshani Seneviratne , Daniel M. Gruen , Morgan A. Foreman , Amar K. Das , Deborah L. McGuinness

Autonomous systems control many tasks in our daily lives. To increase trust in those systems and safety of the interaction between humans and autonomous systems, the system behaviour and reasons for autonomous decision should be explained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Maike Schwammberger , Verena Klös

Explainability is crucial for complex systems like pervasive smart environments, as they collect and analyze data from various sensors, follow multiple rules, and control different devices resulting in behavior that is not trivial and,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Mersedeh Sadeghi , Lars Herbold , Max Unterbusch , Andreas Vogelsang

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

Textual explanations have proved to help improve user satisfaction on machine-made recommendations. However, current mainstream solutions loosely connect the learning of explanation with the learning of recommendation: for example, they are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Aobo Yang , Nan Wang , Hongbo Deng , Hongning Wang

Explainable recommendation has attracted much attention from the industry and academic communities. It has shown great potential for improving the recommendation persuasiveness, informativeness and user satisfaction. Despite a lot of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Xu Chen , Jingsen Zhang , Lei Wang , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Ruiming Tang , Rui Zhang , Li Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

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

Quality aspects such as ethics, fairness, and transparency have been proven to be essential for trustworthy software systems. Explainability has been identified not only as a means to achieve all these three aspects in systems, but also as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Larissa Chazette , Jil Klünder , Merve Balci , Kurt Schneider

Explanations are used in recommender systems for various reasons. Users have to be supported in making (high-quality) decisions more quickly. Developers of recommender systems want to convince users to purchase specific items. Users should…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-25 A. Felfernig , N. Tintarev , T. N. T. Trang , M. Stettinger

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
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