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CMU-HCII-12-103
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
CMU-HCII-12-103
Evaluating Intelligibility Usage and Usefulness
in a Context-Aware Application
Brian Y. Lim, Anind K. Dey
March 2012
CMU-HCII-12-103.pdf
Keywords:
Intelligibility, explanation, user study, context-awareness, human-computer
interaction
Intelligibility has been proposed to help end-users understand context-aware
applications with their complex inference and implicit sensing. Usable
explanations can be generated and designed to improve user understanding.
However, will users be willing to use these intelligibility features? How
much intelligibility will they use, and will this be sufficient to effectively
improve their understanding? We present a quasi-field experiment of how
participants used the intelligibility features of a fully-functional
intelligible context-aware application. We investigated how many explanations
they willingly viewed, and how that affected their understanding of the
application's behavior, and suggestions they had for improving its behavior.
We discuss what constitutes successful intelligibility usage, & provide
recommendations for designing intelligibility to promote its effective use.
20 pages
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