Rapid XAI prototyping using EUCA
In the previous section, we discussed the key ingredients of a user-centered XAI/ML system. In this section, the importance of rapid prototyping in the ENDURANCE ideology will be emphasized. Rapid prototyping is a concept that is predominantly adopted in software engineering as software is probably the most malleable thing created by mankind. Building fast prototypes is an approach for collecting useful user feedback early in the development process of a software product. Hence, even for designing user-centered XAI/ML systems, rapid prototyping is very important.
Jin et al., in their research work EUCA: the End-User-Centered Explainable AI Framework (https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02437), introduced a toolkit called EUCA. EUCA is a very interesting framework primarily designed by UX researchers, HCI researchers and designers, AI scientists, and developers for building rapid XAI prototypes for non-technical end users. The official GitHub repository for...