Automation Transparency in a Machine Learning (ML)-based Decision Support System for Condition-Based Maintenance


In this project, I designed and developed interactive data visualizations and graphical user interfaces for a machine learning-based decision support system for condition-based maintenance. This system was used as a testing platform in two experiments with human participants.

I used this platform to conduct a controlled experiment with 24 participants to evaluate the impact of automation transparency and explainability on human decision-making performance, reliance, and trust. 

The results found no evidence to corroborate the common belief that presenting a rationale for an automated output will positively impact automation reliance and efficacy.
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Visualization of Machine Learning Model Decision

Publications


The Effects of Automation Transparency on Human Performance


F. Rajabiyazdi

University of Toronto, 2023


An Empirical Study on Automation Transparency (i.e., seeing-into) of an Automated Decision Aid System for Condition-Based Maintenance


Fahimeh Rajabiyazdi, G. Jamieson, David Quispe Guanolusia

Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021), 2021


A Machine Learning-Based Micro-World Platform for Condition-Based Maintenance


David A. Quispe G, Fahimeh Rajabiyazdi, G. Jamieson

IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2020