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most citedTo Trust or to Think: Cognitive Forcing Functions Can Reduce Overreliance on AI in AI-assisted Decision-making

887 citations · 1.3k across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CL2026

Users Mispredict Their Own Preferences for AI Writing Assistance

Vivian Lai, Zana Buçinca, Nil-Jana Akpinar +5

Proactive AI writing assistants need to predict when users want drafting help, yet we lack empirical understanding of what drives preferences. Through a factorial vignette study wi…

cs.HC2024★ 1 cited

Contrastive Explanations That Anticipate Human Misconceptions Can Improve Human Decision-Making Skills

Zana Buçinca, Siddharth Swaroop, Amanda E. Paluch +2

People's decision-making abilities often fail to improve or may even erode when they rely on AI for decision-support, even when the AI provides informative explanations. We argue t…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Learning Interpretable Fair Representations

Tianhao Wang, Zana Buçinca, Zilin Ma

Numerous approaches have been recently proposed for learning fair representations that mitigate unfair outcomes in prediction tasks. A key motivation for these methods is that the…

cs.HC2024★ 2 cited

Towards Optimizing Human-Centric Objectives in AI-Assisted Decision-Making With Offline Reinforcement Learning

Zana Buçinca, Siddharth Swaroop, Amanda E. Paluch +2

Imagine if AI decision-support tools not only complemented our ability to make accurate decisions, but also improved our skills, boosted collaboration, and elevated the joy we deri…

cs.HC2023★ 11 cited

AHA!: Facilitating AI Impact Assessment by Generating Examples of Harms

Zana Buçinca, Chau Minh Pham, Maurice Jakesch +3

While demands for change and accountability for harmful AI consequences mount, foreseeing the downstream effects of deploying AI systems remains a challenging task. We developed AH…

cs.HC2023★ 39 cited

Accuracy-Time Tradeoffs in AI-Assisted Decision Making under Time Pressure

Siddharth Swaroop, Zana Buçinca, Krzysztof Z. Gajos +1

In settings where users both need high accuracy and are time-pressured, such as doctors working in emergency rooms, we want to provide AI assistance that both increases decision ac…

cs.HC2022★ 111 cited

How Different Groups Prioritize Ethical Values for Responsible AI

Maurice Jakesch, Zana Buçinca, Saleema Amershi +1

Private companies, public sector organizations, and academic groups have outlined ethical values they consider important for responsible artificial intelligence technologies. While…

cs.HC2021★ 887 cited

To Trust or to Think: Cognitive Forcing Functions Can Reduce Overreliance on AI in AI-assisted Decision-making

Zana Buçinca, Maja Barbara Malaya, Krzysztof Z. Gajos

People supported by AI-powered decision support tools frequently overrely on the AI: they accept an AI's suggestion even when that suggestion is wrong. Adding explanations to the A…

cs.CL2020

AffectON: Incorporating Affect Into Dialog Generation

Zana Bucinca, Yucel Yemez, Engin Erzin +1

Due to its expressivity, natural language is paramount for explicit and implicit affective state communication among humans. The same linguistic inquiry (e.g., How are you?) might…

cs.AI2020★ 259 cited

Proxy Tasks and Subjective Measures Can Be Misleading in Evaluating Explainable AI Systems

Zana Buçinca, Phoebe Lin, Krzysztof Z. Gajos +1

Explainable artificially intelligent (XAI) systems form part of sociotechnical systems, e.g., human+AI teams tasked with making decisions. Yet, current XAI systems are rarely evalu…