{"id":538,"date":"2025-06-10T16:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/labs\/?page_id=538"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:22:58","slug":"xui","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/labs\/xui\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainable User Interfaces (XUI)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has happened to us all; you are in the middle of doing something and the screen suddenly switches apparently randomly.&nbsp; If you are experienced you think, \u201c<em>I must have touched something by accident<\/em>\u201d or, \u201c<em>perhaps the page timed out<\/em>\u201d, maybe you try the back button on a web page or on an Android phone, or simply back-off and try again.&nbsp; Sometimes this is just disorienting and mildly annoying, sometimes you lost the text you spent half-an-hour carefully crafting.&nbsp; Now imagine you are less confident, perhaps older or less experienced, or have motor control issues either through illness, disability or due to an activity such as running or driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things may go well: you have just managed to create a new payee on our banking app, and you wonder, \u201c<em>how did I do that?<\/em>\u201d.&nbsp; Or you\u2019ve been in the middle of something, got interrupted by a notification or phone call and then think \u201c<em>where was I?<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI can make this worse acting autonomously or because a side effect of making the interpretation of our actions more intelligent is that they are often less predictable and harder to make sense of.&nbsp; For AI we are used to thinking about issues of explainability (Guidotti et al.); indeed, the author has been writing about the importance of transparency to ameliorate machine-learning bias since the early 1990s (Dix 1992), and the \u2018right to an explanation\u2019 is enshrined within EU law (EU 2024).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, AI is simply adding to existing UI complexity.&nbsp; With or without AI, we need to be able to ask \u201c<em>what happened?<\/em>\u201d, \u201c<em>what did I just do?<\/em>\u201d, \u201c<em>how can I do this again next time?<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center ticss-7da41410\"><em>We need explainable user interfaces.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Explainable User Interfaces\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1092230788?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has happened to us all; you are in the middle of doing something and the screen suddenly switches apparently randomly.&nbsp; If you are experienced you think, \u201cI must have touched something by accident\u201d or, \u201cperhaps the page timed out\u201d, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alandix.com\/labs\/xui\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-538","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/538\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alandix.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}