Study on the Helpfulness of Explainable Artificial Intelligence

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Autori principali: Labarta, Tobias, Kulicheva, Elizaveta, Froelian, Ronja, Geißler, Christian, Melman, Xenia, von Klitzing, Julian
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author Labarta, Tobias
Kulicheva, Elizaveta
Froelian, Ronja
Geißler, Christian
Melman, Xenia
von Klitzing, Julian
author_facet Labarta, Tobias
Kulicheva, Elizaveta
Froelian, Ronja
Geißler, Christian
Melman, Xenia
von Klitzing, Julian
contents Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is essential for building advanced machine learning-powered applications, especially in critical domains such as medical diagnostics or autonomous driving. Legal, business, and ethical requirements motivate using effective XAI, but the increasing number of different methods makes it challenging to pick the right ones. Further, as explanations are highly context-dependent, measuring the effectiveness of XAI methods without users can only reveal a limited amount of information, excluding human factors such as the ability to understand it. We propose to evaluate XAI methods via the user's ability to successfully perform a proxy task, designed such that a good performance is an indicator for the explanation to provide helpful information. In other words, we address the helpfulness of XAI for human decision-making. Further, a user study on state-of-the-art methods was conducted, showing differences in their ability to generate trust and skepticism and the ability to judge the rightfulness of an AI decision correctly. Based on the results, we highly recommend using and extending this approach for more objective-based human-centered user studies to measure XAI performance in an end-to-end fashion.
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spellingShingle Study on the Helpfulness of Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Labarta, Tobias
Kulicheva, Elizaveta
Froelian, Ronja
Geißler, Christian
Melman, Xenia
von Klitzing, Julian
Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
68T37, 91E99
I.2.0; I.2.3; H.5.2; H.1.2; K.4.2
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is essential for building advanced machine learning-powered applications, especially in critical domains such as medical diagnostics or autonomous driving. Legal, business, and ethical requirements motivate using effective XAI, but the increasing number of different methods makes it challenging to pick the right ones. Further, as explanations are highly context-dependent, measuring the effectiveness of XAI methods without users can only reveal a limited amount of information, excluding human factors such as the ability to understand it. We propose to evaluate XAI methods via the user's ability to successfully perform a proxy task, designed such that a good performance is an indicator for the explanation to provide helpful information. In other words, we address the helpfulness of XAI for human decision-making. Further, a user study on state-of-the-art methods was conducted, showing differences in their ability to generate trust and skepticism and the ability to judge the rightfulness of an AI decision correctly. Based on the results, we highly recommend using and extending this approach for more objective-based human-centered user studies to measure XAI performance in an end-to-end fashion.
title Study on the Helpfulness of Explainable Artificial Intelligence
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Artificial Intelligence
68T37, 91E99
I.2.0; I.2.3; H.5.2; H.1.2; K.4.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11896