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Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction

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    Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) frame opportunities and challenges for user interface design. Principles for human-AI interaction have been discussed in the human-computer interaction community for over two decades, but more study and innovation are needed in light of advances in AI and the growing uses of AI technologies in human-facing applications. We propose 18 generally applicable design guidelines for human-AI interaction. These guidelines are validated through multiple rounds of evaluation including a user study with 49 design practitioners who tested the guidelines against 20 popular AI-infused products. The results verify the relevance of the guidelines over a spectrum of interaction scenarios and reveal gaps in our knowledge, highlighting opportunities for further research. Based on the evaluations, we believe the set of design guidelines can serve as a resource to practitioners working on the design of applications and features that harness AI technologies, and to researchers interested in the further development of human-AI interaction design principles.

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    The auxiliary material consists of a single zip file containing a PDF of the paper's appendix. In this appendix, we illustrate each of our 18 human-AI interaction design guidelines with three example applications and three example violations provided by our user study participants when testing the guidelines against popular AI-infused products. For each example we indicate the product category the participant was testing, but obscure the specific product names.

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    CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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