Papers by Heiko Wersing
The Illusion of Competence: Evaluating the Effect of Explanations on Users’ Mental Models of Visual Question Answering Systems (2024.emnlp-main)
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Judith Sieker, Simeon Junker, Ronja Utescher, Nazia Attari, Heiko Wersing, Hendrik Buschmeier, Sina Zarrieß
| Challenge: | Using visual inputs, we hypothesize that explanations will make limited AI capabilities more transparent to users, but our results show that explanation increases users’ perceptions of the system’s competence regardless of its actual performance. |
| Approach: | They employ a visual question answer and explanation task where participants control the AI system’s limitations by manipulating visual inputs. |
| Outcome: | The proposed explanations do not increase users’ perceptions of the system’s competence regardless of its actual performance. |