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Mental Models of Mere Mortals with Explanations of Reinforcement Learning

Creator:: Anderson, Andrew A.
Abstract:: How should reinforcement learning (RL) agents explain themselves to humans not trained in AI? To gain insights into this question, we conducted a 124 participant, four-treatment experiment to compare participants’ mental models of an RL agent in the context of a simple Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game. The four treatments isolated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . Alan Fern and Katherine McLaughlin, who have challenged me and helped me grow as a computer scientist

How does AAR/AI Support Problem Solvers with Diverse Behaviors and Cognitive Styles?

Creator:: Dikkala, Rupika
Abstract:: "What’s wrong with this AI?" Explainable AI (XAI) researchers are moving beyond explaining an AI’s actions, to helping users detect an AI’s failures. However this detection may not be enough—for actionability, we often need to pinpoint which part failed. We investigate how AAR/AI, a structured assessment process, supports users with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , Zhengxian Lin, Catherine Hu, Christopher Perdriau, Caroline Gao, Dr. Minsuk Kahng, Dr. Alan Fern, and Dr

Similarity inheritance : a model of inheritance for declarative visual programming languages

Creator:: Djang, Rebecca W. (Rebecca Walpole)
Abstract:: Declarative visual programming languages (VPLs), including spreadsheets, make up a large portion of both research and commercial VPLs. Spreadsheets in particular enjoy a wide audience, including end users. Unfortunately, spreadsheets and most other declarative VPLs still suffer from some of the problems that have been solved in other languages, such...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: model. The essence of the paradigm is summarized by Alan Kay's value rule for spreadsheets [Kay 1984

Explanations and Processes to Enable Humans to Assess AI with Respect to Manipulable Properties

Creator:: Dodge, Jonathan E.
Abstract:: Assessing AI systems is difficult. Humans rely on AI systems in increasing ways, both visible and invisible, meaning a variety of stakeholders need a variety of assessment tools (e.g., a professional auditor, a developer, and an end user all have different needs). We posit that it is possible to provide...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: who kept us on the proper statistical path; Alan Fern, who wrangled grant funders and taught us all

Generalizing abstractions in form-based visual programming languages : from direct manipulation to static representation

Creator:: Yang, Sherry
Abstract:: We believe concreteness, direct manipulation and responsiveness in a visual programming language increase its usefulness. However, these characteristics present a challenge in generalizing programs for reuse, especially when concrete examples are used as one way of achieving concreteness. In this thesis, we present a technique to solve this problem by...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Practices for Engineering Gender-Inclusivity into Software

Creator:: Hilderbrand, Claudia
Abstract:: Although the need for gender-inclusivity in software itself is gaining attention among both SE researchers and SE practitioners, and methods have been published to help, little has been reported on how to make such methods work in real-world settings. For example, how do busy software practitioners use such methods in...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The expressive power and declarative attributes of exception handling in Forms/3

Creator:: Agrawal, Anurag
Abstract:: Exception handling is a programming language feature that can help increase the reliability of programs. However, not much work has been done on exception handling in visual programming languages. We present an approach for improving the exception handling mechanism in Forms/3, a declarative visual programming language based on the spreadsheet...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Inclusive Software Design and Its Methods for Beyond-WIMP User Interfaces

Creator:: Fallatah, Abrar
Abstract:: While digital inclusivity researchers and software practitioners have been trying to address exclusion biases in Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointers (WIMP) user interfaces (UIs) for a long time, little has been done to investigate if and how inclusive software design and its methods that have been devised for WIMP UIs...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Gender HCI issues in end-user programming

Creator:: Beckwith, Laura A.
Abstract:: Until recently, research has not considered whether the design of end-user programming environments, such as spreadsheets, multimedia authoring languages, and CAD systems, affects males and females differently. As a result, we began investigating how the two genders are impacted by end-user programming software and whether attention to gender differences is...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: researchers outside of Oregon State University including: Susan Wiedenbeck, Alan Blackwell, and Mary

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Mental Models of Mere Mortals with Explanations of Reinforcement Learning

How does AAR/AI Support Problem Solvers with Diverse Behaviors and Cognitive Styles?

Similarity inheritance : a model of inheritance for declarative visual programming languages

Explanations and Processes to Enable Humans to Assess AI with Respect to Manipulable Properties

Generalizing abstractions in form-based visual programming languages : from direct manipulation to static representation

Practices for Engineering Gender-Inclusivity into Software

The expressive power and declarative attributes of exception handling in Forms/3

Inclusive Software Design and Its Methods for Beyond-WIMP User Interfaces

Gender HCI issues in end-user programming

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