SmartEx: A Framework for Generating User-Centric Explanations in Smart Environments

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Main Authors: Sadeghi, Mersedeh, Herbold, Lars, Unterbusch, Max, Vogelsang, Andreas
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Published: 2024
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author Sadeghi, Mersedeh
Herbold, Lars
Unterbusch, Max
Vogelsang, Andreas
author_facet Sadeghi, Mersedeh
Herbold, Lars
Unterbusch, Max
Vogelsang, Andreas
contents 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, thus, should be explained to the users. The current approaches, however, offer flat, static, and algorithm-focused explanations. User-centric explanations, on the other hand, consider the recipient and context, providing personalized and context-aware explanations. To address this gap, we propose an approach to incorporate user-centric explanations into smart environments. We introduce a conceptual model and a reference architecture for characterizing and generating such explanations. Our work is the first technical solution for generating context-aware and granular explanations in smart environments. Our architecture implementation demonstrates the feasibility of our approach through various scenarios.
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spellingShingle SmartEx: A Framework for Generating User-Centric Explanations in Smart Environments
Sadeghi, Mersedeh
Herbold, Lars
Unterbusch, Max
Vogelsang, Andreas
Human-Computer Interaction
Software Engineering
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, thus, should be explained to the users. The current approaches, however, offer flat, static, and algorithm-focused explanations. User-centric explanations, on the other hand, consider the recipient and context, providing personalized and context-aware explanations. To address this gap, we propose an approach to incorporate user-centric explanations into smart environments. We introduce a conceptual model and a reference architecture for characterizing and generating such explanations. Our work is the first technical solution for generating context-aware and granular explanations in smart environments. Our architecture implementation demonstrates the feasibility of our approach through various scenarios.
title SmartEx: A Framework for Generating User-Centric Explanations in Smart Environments
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Software Engineering
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13024