Explanations in practice

Commentary Explanations in practice

Ian McDowell’s thought-provoking piece provides an all-encompassing up-to-date framework for public health explanations rooted in earlier paradigms and acknowledging the political agenda involved in the practice of public health. The challenge is how to use a diffuse and multi-layered framework to generate equitable strategies to improve global public health, firstly how to operationalize the f...

Explanations Count Explanations Count

In research areas such as decision support systems, one of the crucial features is the ability to automatically explain decisions. However, this ability does not typically play a large role in computer games. Here, I suggest that this situation will change: research on the automatic generation of explanations will have real import for many types of computer games. I discuss four possible ways t...

Generating Process Explanations in Nuclear Astrophysics Generating Explanations in Astrophysics

In this paper we describe ASTRA, a computational aid for generating process explanations in nuclear astrophysics. The system operates in two stages, the rst using knowledge of quantum theory to produce a set of legal reactions among elements and the second searching for pathways of such reactions that explain the evolution of some element in terms of lighter ones. ASTRA has found apparently nov...

Theoretical Explanations 1 RUNNING HEAD: THEORETICAL EXPLANATIONS Strengths and limitations of theoretical explanations in psychology

Great Explanations: Opinionated Explanations for Recommendation

Explaining recommendations helps users to make better, more satisfying decisions. We describe a novel approach to explanation for recommender systems, one that drives the recommendation process, while at the same time providing the user with useful insights into the reason why items have been chosen and the trade-offs they may need to consider when making their choice. We describe this approach...