Explainability Needs in Agriculture: Exploring Dairy Farmers' User Personas
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| author | Girmay, Mengisti Berihu Droste, Jakob Deters, Hannah Doerr, Joerg |
| author_facet | Girmay, Mengisti Berihu Droste, Jakob Deters, Hannah Doerr, Joerg |
| contents | Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises new opportunities across many domains, including agriculture. However, the adoption of AI systems in this sector faces several challenges. System complexity can impede trust, as farmers' livelihoods depend on their decision-making and they may reject opaque or hard-to-understand recommendations. Data privacy concerns also pose a barrier, especially when farmers lack transparency regarding who can access their data and for what purposes.
This paper examines dairy farmers' explainability requirements for technical recommendations and data privacy, along with the influence of socio-demographic factors. Based on a mixed-methods study involving 40 German dairy farmers, we identify five user personas through k-means clustering. Our findings reveal varying requirements, with some farmers preferring little detail while others seek full transparency across different aspects. Age, technology experience, and confidence in using digital systems were found to correlate with these explainability requirements. The resulting user personas offer practical guidance for requirements engineers aiming to tailor digital systems more effectively to the diverse requirements of farmers. |
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| spellingShingle | Explainability Needs in Agriculture: Exploring Dairy Farmers' User Personas Girmay, Mengisti Berihu Droste, Jakob Deters, Hannah Doerr, Joerg Computers and Society Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises new opportunities across many domains, including agriculture. However, the adoption of AI systems in this sector faces several challenges. System complexity can impede trust, as farmers' livelihoods depend on their decision-making and they may reject opaque or hard-to-understand recommendations. Data privacy concerns also pose a barrier, especially when farmers lack transparency regarding who can access their data and for what purposes. This paper examines dairy farmers' explainability requirements for technical recommendations and data privacy, along with the influence of socio-demographic factors. Based on a mixed-methods study involving 40 German dairy farmers, we identify five user personas through k-means clustering. Our findings reveal varying requirements, with some farmers preferring little detail while others seek full transparency across different aspects. Age, technology experience, and confidence in using digital systems were found to correlate with these explainability requirements. The resulting user personas offer practical guidance for requirements engineers aiming to tailor digital systems more effectively to the diverse requirements of farmers. |
| title | Explainability Needs in Agriculture: Exploring Dairy Farmers' User Personas |
| topic | Computers and Society Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16249 |