Research in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted decision-making is experiencing tremendous growth with a constantly rising number of studies evaluating the effect of AI with and without techniques from the field of explainable AI (XAI) on human decision-making performance. However, as tasks and experimental setups vary due to different objectives, some studies report improved user decision-making performance through XAI, while others report only negligible effects. Therefore, in this article, we present an initial synthesis of existing research on XAI studies using a statistical meta-analysis to derive implications across existing research. We observe a statistically positive impact of XAI on users' performance. Additionally, first results might indicate that human-AI decision-making yields better task performance on text data. However, we find no effect of explanations on users' performance compared to sole AI predictions. Our initial synthesis gives rise to future research to investigate the underlying causes as well as contribute to further development of algorithms that effectively benefit human decision-makers in the form of explanations.

这篇论文通过对Explainable AI领域的研究进行统计元分析，得出了Explainable AI对于用户决策性能有积极的统计效应，但是并未表明解释对用户的决策性能产生了任何影响，有利于今后研究基于AI的非人类决策中人类因素的影响。

可解释人工智能在人工智能决策中的应用的Meta分析