User Involvement in Training Smart Home Agents

L.N. Sieger, J. Hermann, A. Schomäcker, S. Heindorf, C. Meske, C.-C. Hey, A. Doğangün, in: International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, ACM, 2022.

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Sieger, Leonie NoraLibreCat; Hermann, Julia; Schomäcker, Astrid; Heindorf, StefanLibreCat ; Meske, Christian; Hey, Celine-Chiara; Doğangün, Ayşegül
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Increasing Perceived Control and Understanding
Abstract
Smart home systems contain plenty of features that enhance wellbeing in everyday life through artificial intelligence (AI). However, many users feel insecure because they do not understand the AI’s functionality and do not feel they are in control of it. Combining technical, psychological and philosophical views on AI, we rethink smart homes as interactive systems where users can partake in an intelligent agent’s learning. Parallel to the goals of explainable AI (XAI), we explored the possibility of user involvement in supervised learning of the smart home to have a first approach to improve acceptance, support subjective understanding and increase perceived control. In this work, we conducted two studies: In an online pre-study, we asked participants about their attitude towards teaching AI via a questionnaire. In the main study, we performed a Wizard of Oz laboratory experiment with human participants, where participants spent time in a prototypical smart home and taught activity recognition to the intelligent agent through supervised learning based on the user’s behaviour. We found that involvement in the AI’s learning phase enhanced the users’ feeling of control, perceived understanding and perceived usefulness of AI in general. The participants reported positive attitudes towards training a smart home AI and found the process understandable and controllable. We suggest that involving the user in the learning phase could lead to better personalisation and increased understanding and control by users of intelligent agents for smart home automation.
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International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
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HAI '22: International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
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Christchurch, New Zealand
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2022-12-05 – 2022-12-08
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Sieger LN, Hermann J, Schomäcker A, et al. User Involvement in Training Smart Home Agents. In: International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. ACM; 2022. doi:10.1145/3527188.3561914
Sieger, L. N., Hermann, J., Schomäcker, A., Heindorf, S., Meske, C., Hey, C.-C., & Doğangün, A. (2022). User Involvement in Training Smart Home Agents. International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. HAI ’22: International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Christchurch, New Zealand. https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3561914
@inproceedings{Sieger_Hermann_Schomäcker_Heindorf_Meske_Hey_Doğangün_2022, title={User Involvement in Training Smart Home Agents}, DOI={10.1145/3527188.3561914}, booktitle={International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction}, publisher={ACM}, author={Sieger, Leonie Nora and Hermann, Julia and Schomäcker, Astrid and Heindorf, Stefan and Meske, Christian and Hey, Celine-Chiara and Doğangün, Ayşegül}, year={2022} }
Sieger, Leonie Nora, Julia Hermann, Astrid Schomäcker, Stefan Heindorf, Christian Meske, Celine-Chiara Hey, and Ayşegül Doğangün. “User Involvement in Training Smart Home Agents.” In International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. ACM, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3561914.
L. N. Sieger et al., “User Involvement in Training Smart Home Agents,” presented at the HAI ’22: International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2022, doi: 10.1145/3527188.3561914.
Sieger, Leonie Nora, et al. “User Involvement in Training Smart Home Agents.” International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, ACM, 2022, doi:10.1145/3527188.3561914.

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