AI Explainability at the IHM Conference 2022 at UNamur: Misdirection of XAI from technical solutions to user adaptation

On the first day, I attended the workshop on AI Explainability that brought together researchers from both the HCI and Computer Science communities. The workshop was opened by UNamur professors Bruno Dumas, specializing in HCI, and Benoît Frénay who works on Machine Learning. Dr Frénay presented the XAI research field and the interdisciplinary research being conducted at UNamur on this topic. He pointed out the lack of a user-centered approach in the XAI machine learning community where less than 1% of accepted papers in major conferences, such as NeurIPS, test their XAI methods with user studies. The rest of the morning was devoted to the presentation of eight abstracts, including mine, related to XAI research with either a computer science or HCI angle.