This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 20 Aug 2026 11:30 - 12:00 at A-1600 - AI Ethics, Governance & Explainability Chair(s): Martin Glinz

Explainability is an important non-functional requirement for AI-enabled systems. Despite growing interest in human-centered approaches, prevailing frameworks remain largely system-centered and grounded in technical properties rather than stakeholder needs. In particular, we lack empirically derived, stakeholder-driven explainability requirements for ethically constrained autonomous decision-making. This paper addresses that gap through an empirical-first requirements engineering approach. We conducted five scenario-based focus groups with 20 participants. Participants represented four stakeholder roles, including those with experience in autonomous systems, expertise in ethics, operational experience, and community members without domain-specific expertise. Participants discussed ten ethical dilemmas involving autonomous emergency response drones. We applied Socio-Technical Grounded Theory to 282 codable segments and derived a seven-category taxonomy of explainability requirements. Four categories cover established XAI concerns such as epistemic transparency and decision rationales, while three focus on previously under-explored areas of real-time operational communication, institutional accountability, and human-machine decision-authority boundaries. From these categories, we produce an initial set of requirement patterns that link stakeholder roles and scenario ethics. In a post-study validation survey, participants confirmed that the taxonomy categories captured their expressed concerns, and taxonomy-informed explanations were preferred over generic ones across multiple evaluation dimensions.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Thu 20 Aug

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11:00 - 12:30
AI Ethics, Governance & ExplainabilityResearch Papers / Journal-First at A-1600
Chair(s): Martin Glinz University of Zurich
11:00
30m
Talk
AI Transparency: Governance Compliance or Stakeholder Requirements?
Research Papers
Muneera Bano CSIRO's Data61, Didar Zowghi CSIRO's Data61 - University of Technology Sydney
Pre-print
11:30
30m
Talk
Toward Stakeholder-Driven Explainability for Ethically Constrained Physical-AI Decisions
Research Papers
Demetrius Hernandez The University of Notre Dame, Katsumi Ibaraki University of Notre Dame, Rich Morales Brown University, Jane Cleland-Huang University of Notre Dame
12:00
30m
Talk
Decoupling in AI Ethics: Learning how to Walk the Talk
Journal-First
Ravit Dotan TechBetter, Tomer Gershoni University of Haifa, Irit Hadar University of Haifa, Gil Luria University of Haifa

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Thu 20 Aug 2026 11:00 - 12:30 at A-1600 - AI Ethics, Governance & Explainability Chair(s): Martin Glinz
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