Author Archives: Ruth Byrne

Congratulations to Dr Xinyue Dai on her PhD, “How People Understand Causal and Counterfactual Explanations in the Context of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence”. Dai is pictured here at her recent PhD commencements ceremony at Trinity College Dublin. Dai’s PhD was supervised … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Greta Warren on her PhD “User-centred counterfactual explanations for explainable AI”! Greta’s PhD was co-supervised by Mark Keane and Ruth Byrne; its external examiner was Dr Tim Miller, Queensland, Australia. Greta’s PhD was formally conferred at a ceremony … Continue reading →

Members of the lab gave several talks at the International Thinking Conference in Milan in June 2024. Xinyue Dai gave a talk at the conference titled  “A controllability bias in causal explanation” co-authored with Mark Keane, Laurence Shalloo, Elodie Ruelle … Continue reading →

Ruth Byrne gave a keynote talk at the Causal Cognition in Humans and Machines meeting in Oxford, UK in January 2024.

Ruth Byrne gave a keynote talk at the 20th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems in Lisbon, Portugal in July 2024.

Xinyue Dai presented a poster about her PhD experiments on whether AI recommendations affect risky choices at the annual conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology in Portugal in September 2023, see https://escop2023.org/

Ruth Byrne gave an invited talk at the workshop on “Counterfactuals in Minds and Machines” at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Hawaii, July 23rd – 29th 2023, details here. Her talk was on “How people reason with counterfactual … Continue reading →

Eoin Delaney gave a talk and poster with Mark Keane at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Hawaii, July 23rd – 29th 2023, details here The title of their work was “Counterfactual explanations for misclassified images”.

Ruth Byrne was a keynote speaker at the 31st International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR’23, in Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, July 17th – 20th 2023, details here. Her talk was on “How people reason with counterfactual explanations for … Continue reading →

Ruth Byrne and Mark Keane both gave talks at the meeting in honour of Phil Johnson-Laird on the 40th anniversary of the publication of his 1983 Mental Models book, at UCL in London, 19th-20th July 2023. details here. Mark’s talk, … Continue reading →