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When Life Gives You AI, Will You Turn It Into A Market for Lemons? Understanding How Information Asymmetries About AI System Capabilities Affect Market Outcomes and Adoption
Alexander Erlei, Federico Cau, Radoslav Georgiev +3
AI consumer markets are characterized by severe buyer-supplier market asymmetries. Complex AI systems can appear highly accurate while making costly errors or embedding hidden defe…
Beyond Awareness: Investigating How AI and Psychological Factors Shape Human Self-Confidence Calibration
Federico Maria Cau, Lucio Davide Spano
Human-AI collaboration outcomes depend strongly on human self-confidence calibration, which drives reliance or resistance toward AI's suggestions. This work presents two studies ex…
Can Large Language Models Automate Phishing Warning Explanations? A Controlled Experiment on Effectiveness and User Perception
Federico Maria Cau, Giuseppe Desolda, Francesco Greco +2
Phishing has become a prominent risk in modern cybersecurity, often used to bypass technological defences by exploiting predictable human behaviour. Warning dialogues are a standar…
Exploring the Impact of Explainable AI and Cognitive Capabilities on Users' Decisions
Federico Maria Cau, Lucio Davide Spano
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly used for decision-making across domains, raising debates over the information and explanations they should provide. Most resea…
Navigating the Thin Line: Examining User Behavior in Search to Detect Engagement and Backfire Effects
F. M. Cau, N. Tintarev
Opinionated users often seek information that aligns with their preexisting beliefs while dismissing contradictory evidence due to confirmation bias. This conduct hinders their abi…
Explaining Search Result Stances to Opinionated People
Z. Wu, T. Draws, F. Cau +3
People use web search engines to find information before forming opinions, which can lead to practical decisions with different levels of impact. The cognitive effort of search can…