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Extending the Nested Model for User-Centric XAI: A Design Study on GNN-based Drug Repurposing.
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
|October 12, 2022
Summary
Visualizing AI explanations is key for usability. This study designs usable visual explanations for graph neural network (GNN) predictions in drug repurposing, creating the DrugExplorer tool.
Area of Science:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Bioinformatics
- Human-Computer Interaction
Background:
- Effective AI explanations depend heavily on visual presentation.
- Selecting and presenting AI explanations tailored to domain users remains a challenge.
- Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly used in scientific domains like drug repurposing.
Conclusions:
- The proposed extended nested model effectively guides the design of XAI visualizations.
- Tailored visual presentation significantly enhances the usability of AI explanations for domain experts.
- Findings offer insights for designing XAI visualizations in other scientific applications.
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