Evaluating the Effect of Explanations on Users’ Mental Models of Visual Question Answering Systems


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Abstract:We examine how users perceive the limitations of an AI system when it encounters a task that it cannot perform perfectly and whether providing explanations alongside its answers aids users in constructing an appropriate mental model of the system’s capabilities and limitations. We employ a visual question answer and explanation task where we control the AI system’s limitations by manipulating the visual inputs: during inference, the system either processes full-color or grayscale images. Our goal is to determine whether participants can perceive the limitations of the system. We hypothesize that explanations will make limited AI capabilities more transparent to users. However, our results show that explanations do not have this effect. Instead of allowing users to more accurately assess the limitations of the AI system, explanations generally increase users’ perceptions of the system’s competence – regardless of its actual performance.

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From: Judith Sieker [view email]
[v1]
Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:44:03 UTC (8,048 KB)
[v2]
Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:17:20 UTC (8,041 KB)

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