Elicitation and Documentation of Explainability Requirements in a Medical Information Systems Context

Christian Kücherer, Linda Gerasch, Denise Junger, Oliver Burgert

2025

Abstract

[Context and motivation] Ongoing research indicates the importance of explainabilty as it provides the rationale for results and decision of information systems to users. Explainability must be considered and implemented in software at the early stage in requirements engineering (RE). For the completeness of software requirements specifications, the elicitation and documentation of explainability requirements is essential. [Prob-lem] Although there are existing studies on explainability in RE, it is not clear yet, how to elicit and document such requirements in detail. Current software development projects miss a clear guidance, how explainability requirements should be specified. [Solution Idea] Through a review of literature, existing works for elicitation and documentation of explainability requirements are analyzed. Based on these findings, a template and additional guiding for capturing explainability requirements is developed. Following a design science approach, the template is applied and improved in a research project of the medical information domain. [Contribution] The overview of related work presents the current state of research for the documentation of explainability requirements. The template and additional guiding can be used in other information system context for RE elicitation and documentation. The application of the template and the elicitation guidance in a real world case show the refinement and an improved completeness of existing requirements.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kücherer C., Gerasch L., Junger D. and Burgert O. (2025). Elicitation and Documentation of Explainability Requirements in a Medical Information Systems Context. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS; ISBN 978-989-758-749-8, SciTePress, pages 83-94. DOI: 10.5220/0013470600003929

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis25,
author={Christian Kücherer and Linda Gerasch and Denise Junger and Oliver Burgert},
title={Elicitation and Documentation of Explainability Requirements in a Medical Information Systems Context},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS},
year={2025},
pages={83-94},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013470600003929},
isbn={978-989-758-749-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS
TI - Elicitation and Documentation of Explainability Requirements in a Medical Information Systems Context
SN - 978-989-758-749-8
AU - Kücherer C.
AU - Gerasch L.
AU - Junger D.
AU - Burgert O.
PY - 2025
SP - 83
EP - 94
DO - 10.5220/0013470600003929
PB - SciTePress