@article{63611,
  abstract     = {{When humans interact with artificial intelligence (AI), one desideratum is appropriate trust. Typically, appropriate trust encompasses that humans trust AI except for instances in which they either explicitly notice AI errors or are suspicious that errors could be present. So far, appropriate trust or related notions have mainly been investigated by assessing trust and reliance. In this contribution, we argue that these assessments are insufficient to measure the complex aim of appropriate trust and the related notion of healthy distrust. We introduce and test the perspective of covert visual attention as an additional indicator for appropriate trust and draw conceptual connections to the notion of healthy distrust. To test the validity of our conceptualization, we formalize visual attention using the Theory of Visual Attention and measure its properties that are potentially relevant to appropriate trust and healthy distrust in an image classification task. Based on temporal-order judgment performance, we estimate participants' attentional capacity and attentional weight toward correct and incorrect mock-up AI classifications. We observe that misclassifications reduce attentional capacity compared to correct classifications. However, our results do not indicate that this reduction is beneficial for a subsequent judgment of the classifications. The attentional weighting is not affected by the classifications' correctness but by the difficulty of categorizing the stimuli themselves. We discuss these results, their implications, and the limited potential for using visual attention as an indicator of appropriate trust and healthy distrust.}},
  author       = {{Peters, Tobias Martin and Biermeier, Kai and Scharlau, Ingrid}},
  issn         = {{1664-1078}},
  journal      = {{Frontiers in Psychology}},
  keywords     = {{appropriate trust, healthy distrust, visual attention, Theory of Visual Attention, human-AI interaction, Bayesian cognitive model, image classification}},
  publisher    = {{Frontiers Media SA}},
  title        = {{{Assessing healthy distrust in human-AI interaction: interpreting changes in visual attention}}},
  doi          = {{10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1694367}},
  volume       = {{16}},
  year         = {{2026}},
}

@inproceedings{51343,
  abstract     = {{This paper presents preliminary work on the formalization of three prominent cognitive biases in the diagnostic reasoning process over epileptic seizures, psychogenic seizures and syncopes. Diagnostic reasoning is understood as iterative exploration of medical evidence. This exploration is represented as a partially observable Markov decision process where the state (i.e., the correct diagnosis) is uncertain. Observation likelihoods and belief updates are computed using a Bayesian network which defines the interrelation between medical risk factors, diagnoses and potential findings. The decision problem is solved via partially observable upper confidence bounds for trees in Monte-Carlo planning. We compute a biased diagnostic exploration policy by altering the generated state transition, observation and reward during look ahead simulations. The resulting diagnostic policies reproduce reasoning errors which have only been described informally in the medical literature. We plan to use this formal representation in the future to inversely detect and classify biased reasoning in actual diagnostic trajectories obtained from physicians.}},
  author       = {{Battefeld, Dominik and Kopp, Stefan}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Formal and Cognitive Reasoning}},
  keywords     = {{Diagnostic reasoning, Cognitive bias, Cognitive model, POMDP, Bayesian network, Epilepsy, CDSS}},
  location     = {{Trier}},
  title        = {{{Formalizing cognitive biases in medical diagnostic reasoning}}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}