On Explanation
On Explanation
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Within the field of knowledge-based
systems, explanations are considered
as an important link between humans and machines. There, their main purpose is to increase the confidence of the user in the system's result (persuasion) or the system as a whole (satisfaction), by providing evidence of how the solution was derived (transparency). Explanations are part of human understanding processes and part of most dialogues, and, therefore, need to be incorporated into system interactions to improve interactive decision-making processes and, thus, making such systems more robust and dependable.
As information systems grow more and more complex it becomes increasingly important for those systems to have advanced explanation capabilities.
This website documents the quest for explanation-awareness in the design and implementation of complex information processing systems.
Welcome
See explanation-related entries on the blog „Up against IT!?“
The Yahoo! group explanation-research connects researchers on this topic. Join now!
Blog, slides and Yahoo! group
Projects
ExaCt presentations on slideshare.net
Next workshop / conference
Lisbon, Portugal, 16 August 2010
Conference on Human-Centered Processes
Genova, Italy, 9-11 February 2011
Latest news
Completed Publication;
added project EMERGENT [2010-07-30]
ExaCt 2010: List of accepted papers online [2010-06-24]
Added Ashwin Ram to explanation researchers [2010-06-07]
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Projekt Q1: EMERGENT