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No Explainability without Accountability: An Empirical Study of Explanations and Feedback in Interactive ML

Smith-Renner, Alison, Fan, Ron, Birchfield, Melissa, Wu, Tongshuang, Boyd-Graber, Jordan, Weld, Daniel S., Findlater, Leah·2020·Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Abstract

Automatically generated explanations of how machine learning (ML) models reason can help users understand and accept them. However, explanations can have unintended consequences: promoting over-reliance or undermining trust. This paper investigates how explanations shape users' perceptions of ML models with or without the ability to provide feedback to them: (1) does revealing model flaws increase users' desire to "fix" them; (2) does providing explanations cause users to believe - wrongly - that models are introspective, and will thus improve over time. Through two controlled experiments - varying model quality - we show how the combination of explanations and user feedback impacted perceptions, such as frustration and expectations of model improvement. Explanations without opportunity for feedback were frustrating with a lower quality model, while interactions between explanation and feedback for the higher quality model suggest that detailed feedback should not be requested without explanation. Users expected model correction, regardless of whether they provided feedback or received explanations.

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Authors
Smith-Renner, A., Fan, R., Birchfield, M., Wu, T., Boyd-Graber, J., Weld, D. S., & Findlater, L.
Affiliations
  • University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
  • University of Washington (US)
  • University of Maryland, College Park (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2020-04-21
Pages
1-13
OpenAlex
W3030350595
Cited by
112
References
60
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 3
FWCI
5.34
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
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CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • NSF (IIS-1822494, IIS-1409287)
  • ONR (B99914-18-1-2193)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
Keywords
explainable AI, user feedback, model accountability, trust in machine learning, user frustration, model introspection, human-machine interaction

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