Program

Schedule

Time Event
9:00 - 9:45 Opening Remarks and Keynote: Oana Inel
9:45 - 10:30 Discussion Panel: Evaluation of Explanations
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 Author Lightning Talks
11:45 - 12:30 Round Table Discussions & Writing
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Poster Session
14:30 - 15:15 Discussion Panel: Needs and Challenges of Stakeholders/Practitioners in XIR
15:15 - 16:00 Round Table Discussions & Writing
16:00 - 16:30 Closing / Coffee Break

Speakers

Keynote

Fostering Human Reflection Through Explanations: Accounting for the diverse opinions, perspectives, and backgrounds of users

Explanations accompany more and more often recommender and information-retrieval systems. However, their usefulness depends on the trustworthiness of the data, the users they target, and the contexts in which they are consumed. This talk starts by examining lessons learned in the context of data annotation practices and explanation evaluation for recommender systems and shows why it is important to consider the users that the explanations serve and the data that is being explained. Then, the talk takes a practical approach to put users back into the driver seat and help them make sense of vast information spaces through human-centered and human-empowering solutions. In particular, we consider explanations to be a suitable means to providing decision-support systems transparency and fostering human reflection on online content. The goal of this talk is to present various approaches for fostering human reflection through explanations that incorporate and consider user-driven, diversity, and transparency goals, while emphasizing the need to conduct thorough designs and evaluations of explanations.

Panelists