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Planning for Natural Language Failures with the AI Playbook

Hong, Matthew K., Fourney, Adam, DeBellis, Derek, Amershi, Saleema·2021·Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Abstract

Prototyping AI user experiences is challenging due in part to probabilistic AI models making it difficult to anticipate, test, and mitigate AI failures before deployment. In this work, we set out to support practitioners with early AI prototyping, with a focus on natural language (NL)-based technologies. Our interviews with 12 NL practitioners from a large technology company revealed that, in addition to challenges prototyping AI, prototyping was often not happening at all or focused only on idealized scenarios due to a lack of tools and tight timelines. These findings informed our design of the AI Playbook, an interactive and low-cost tool we developed to encourage proactive and systematic consideration of AI errors before deployment. Our evaluation of the AI Playbook demonstrates its potential to 1) encourage product teams to prioritize both ideal and failure scenarios, 2) standardize the articulation of AI failures from a user experience perspective, and 3) act as a boundary object between user experience designers, data scientists, and engineers.

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  • While research has started to categorize types of breakdowns in communication between users and NLP agents, little work has looked into how users perceive these failures and subsequently trust and use their voice assistants.

    “Further, while research has started to categorize types of breakdowns in communication between users and NLP agents [28, 46], little work has looked into how users perceive these failures and subsequently trust and use their voice assistants.”
  • The dataset specifically addresses failures that occur with voice assistants.

    “While prior work [28] was useful in helping NLP practitioners anticipate and plan for failures across many types of NLP technologies, our dataset specifically addresses failures that occur with voice assistants.”

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Authors
Hong, M. K., Fourney, A., DeBellis, D., & Amershi, S.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington (US)
  • Microsoft (United States) (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2021-05-06
Pages
1-11
OpenAlex
W3161120666
Cited by
54
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 1
FWCI
8.03
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
Keywords
interactive design tool, boundary objects, user experience design, interdisciplinary collaboration, product teams

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