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Title	Making Smart Cities Explainable: What Xai Can Learn From The "Ghost Map"
ID_Doc	36182
Authors	Gupta S.; Loukissas Y.A.
Year	2023
Published	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585847
Abstract	How can we visualize civic algorithms in ways that illuminate both their positive and negative spatial impacts? Civic algorithms guide everyday decisions that cumulatively create city life. Yet, their broader effects remain invisible to their creators and city inhabitants. Recent scholarship on "algorithmic harms"presents an urgent need to make smart cities explainable. We argue that existing Explainable AI (XAI) approaches are limited across four important dimensions: accessibility, cultural reflexivity, situatedness, and visibility into internal representations. Our research explores the potential of conventional maps in addressing these limits and providing what we call "grounded explanations". As a salient example, we harness the historical case of the "Ghost Map", designed by John Snow to visualize and resolve the 1854 London Cholera epidemic. We believe that such examples can help the XAI community learn from the cultural history of city representations, as they seek to establish public processes for explaining and evaluating "smart cities". © 2023 Owner/Author.
Author Keywords	Algorithmic audits; Explainable AI; Maps; Smart city; Transparency; Visualization

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