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The Role of Domain Expertise in User Trust and the Impact of First Impressions with Intelligent Systems

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Nourani, Mahsan, King, Joanie, Ragan, Eric·2020·Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing

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Domain-specific intelligent systems are meant to help system users in their decision-making process. Many systems aim to simultaneously support different users with varying levels of domain expertise, but prior domain knowledge can affect user trust and confidence in detecting system errors. While it is also known that user trust can be influenced by first impressions with intelligent systems, our research explores the relationship between ordering bias and domain expertise when encountering errors in intelligent systems. In this paper, we present a controlled user study to explore the role of domain knowledge in establishing trust and susceptibility to the influence of first impressions on user trust. Participants reviewed an explainable image classifier with a constant accuracy and two different orders of observing system errors (observing errors in the beginning of usage vs. in the end). Our findings indicate that encountering errors early-on can cause negative first impressions for domain experts, negatively impacting their trust over the course of interactions. However, encountering correct outputs early helps more knowledgable users to dynamically adjust their trust based on their observations of system performance. In contrast, novice users suffer from over-reliance due to their lack of proper knowledge to detect errors.

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Authors
Nourani, M., King, J., & Ragan, E.
Affiliations
  • University of Florida (US)
  • Texas A&M University (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing
Published
2020-10-01
Volume
8
Pages
112-121
ISSN
  • 2769-1330 (ISSN-L)
  • 2769-1349
OpenAlex
W3070321535
Cited by
116
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 25 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 2
FWCI
14.82
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
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  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • AAAI Publications (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (1900767)
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (N66001, N66001-17-2-4032)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
Keywords
domain knowledge, user trust, first impressions, intelligent systems, error detection, trust dynamics, novice users, expert users, trust in AI

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