From Intelligibility to Debuggability in Context-Aware Systems

Intelligibility is a design principle for context-aware systems which focuses on providing information about context acquisition and interpretation to its users. In this paper we present existing approaches to provide intelligibility and identify a common shortcoming. Explanations starting on the co...

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Published inKI 2014: Advances in Artificial Intelligence pp. 219 - 224
Main Authors Moos, Daniel, Bader, Sebastian, Kirste, Thomas
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer International Publishing 2014
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
debuggability
explanation generation
intelligibility
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ISBN3319112058
9783319112053
ISSN0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-11206-0_21

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Summary:Intelligibility is a design principle for context-aware systems which focuses on providing information about context acquisition and interpretation to its users. In this paper we present existing approaches to provide intelligibility and identify a common shortcoming. Explanations starting on the context level are insufficient to help users in finding and understanding why their system is not working. Debuggability for context-aware systems is introduced as a means to assist users in debugging the cause of a failure. To achieve this we adapt an information exchange approach from explanatory debugging. Furthermore we discuss open problems of debuggability and provide a possible solution.
ISBN:3319112058
9783319112053
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-11206-0_21