People Attribute Purpose to Autonomous Vehicles When Explaining Their Behavior
Published in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025
Recommended citation: Balint Gyevnar, Stephanie Droop, Tadeg Quillien, Shay B. Cohen, Neil R. Bramley, Christopher G. Lucas, Stefano V. Albrecht. (2025). People Attribute Purpose to Autonomous Vehicles When Explaining Their Behavior: Insights from Cognitive Science for Explainable AI. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 18 pages. https:doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713509
Based on our results, we argue that explanatory modes are an important axis of analysis when designing and evaluating XAI and highlight the need for a principled and empirically grounded understanding of the cognitive mechanisms of explanation.