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Bridging the Gap Between Ethics and Practice: Guidelines for Reliable, Safe, and Trustworthy Human-centered AI Systems
This article attempts to bridge the gap between widely discussed ethical principles of Human-centered AI (HCAI) and practical steps for effective governance. Since HCAI systems are developed and implemented in multiple organizational structures, I ...
A Method and Analysis to Elicit User-Reported Problems in Intelligent Everyday Applications
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 applying such ...
Progressive Disclosure: When, Why, and How Do Users Want Algorithmic Transparency Information?
It is essential that users understand how algorithmic decisions are made, as we increasingly delegate important decisions to intelligent systems. Prior work has often taken a techno-centric approach, focusing on new computational techniques to support ...
Algorithmic and HCI Aspects for Explaining Recommendations of Artistic Images
Explaining suggestions made by recommendation systems is key to make users trust and accept these systems. This is specially critical in areas such as art image recommendation. Traditionally, artworks are sold in galleries where people can see them ...
Generating and Understanding Personalized Explanations in Hybrid Recommender Systems
Recommender systems are ubiquitous and shape the way users access information and make decisions. As these systems become more complex, there is a growing need for transparency and interpretability. In this article, we study the problem of generating ...
Smell Pittsburgh: Engaging Community Citizen Science for Air Quality
- Yen-Chia Hsu,
- Jennifer Cross,
- Paul Dille,
- Michael Tasota,
- Beatrice Dias,
- Randy Sargent,
- Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang,
- Illah Nourbakhsh
Urban air pollution has been linked to various human health concerns, including cardiopulmonary diseases. Communities who suffer from poor air quality often rely on experts to identify pollution sources due to the lack of accessible tools. Taking this ...
Photo Sleuth: Identifying Historical Portraits with Face Recognition and Crowdsourced Human Expertise
Identifying people in historical photographs is important for preserving material culture, correcting the historical record, and creating economic value, but it is also a complex and challenging task. In this article, we focus on identifying portraits ...
Affect-Aware Word Clouds
Word clouds are widely used for non-analytic purposes, such as introducing a topic to students, or creating a gift with personally meaningful text. Surveys show that users prefer tools that yield word clouds with a stronger emotional impact. Fonts and ...