Patrick Shafto

Debiasing the Human-Recommender System Feedback Loop in Collaborative Filtering

2019

Recommender Systems (RSs) are widely used to help online users discover products, books, news, music, movies, courses, restaurants, etc. Because a traditional recommendation strategy always shows the most relevant items (thus with highest predicted rating), …

Evaluating perceptual and semantic interpretability of saliency methods: A case study of melanoma

2022 · Applied AI Letters

Abstract In order to be useful, XAI explanations have to be faithful to the AI system they seek to elucidate and also interpretable to the people that engage with them. There exist multiple algorithmic methods …

Talk of the Town mobile app platform: New method for engaging family in STEM learning and research in homes and communities

2023 · Frontiers in Psychology

Children do not just learn in the classroom. They engage in “informal learning” every day just by spending time with their family and peers. However, while researchers know this occurs, less is known about the …