Explaining the Reactions of a Smart Environment. Bader, S. In Proceedings of Exact2012, Montpellier, France, August, 2012.
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A system's ability to explain its decision making is crucial for the acceptance and the user's trust in it. This is in particular the case while using smart environments in which the assistance functionality is distributed over multiple devices and emerges from the interplay of them. In this paper, we show how to derive explanations automatically. For this a description of the system's current state and history is transformed into discourse representation structures and finally into natural language explanations. The generation procedure has been implemented and deployed into a smart meeting room and a first user study indicates that the generated explanations are understandable and natural.
@inproceedings{ bader_explaining_2012,
  address = {Montpellier, France},
  title = {Explaining the Reactions of a Smart Environment},
  abstract = {A system's ability to explain its decision making is crucial for the acceptance and the user's trust in it. This is in particular the case while using smart environments in which the assistance functionality is distributed over multiple devices and emerges from the interplay of them. In this paper, we show how to derive explanations automatically. For this a description of the system's current state and history is transformed into discourse representation structures and finally into natural language explanations. The generation procedure has been implemented and deployed into a smart meeting room and a first user study indicates that the generated explanations are understandable and natural.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of Exact2012},
  author = {Bader, Sebastian},
  month = {August},
  year = {2012}
}

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