creator Lee, Juseung 2022 Spring 2022 Thesis Illinois Institute of Technology CS / Computer Science advisor Glavic, Boris Computer science CaJaDE data provenance Database management explanations user feedback user interaction en In today’s data-driven world, it is becoming increasingly difficult to interpret and understand query results after going through several manipulation steps, especially on a large database. There is a need for automated techniques that explain query results in a meaningful way. A recent study, CaJaDE(Context-Aware Join-Augmented Deep Explanations), presents a novel approach to generating explanations of query results including crucial contextual information. However, it becomes difficult to interpret explanations since the search space increases exponentially.In this thesis, we propose a new approach that introduces a user interaction model for a purpose of enhancing the generation of explanations in the CaJaDE system. We implemented a user interaction model that consists of three modules: User Selection, Recommendation Score, and User Rating. With these modules, our approach guides a user while exploring relevant join graphs, and lets them be involved in the decision-making process while generating join graphs. We demonstrate through performance experiments and user study that our approach is an effective method for users to understand explanations. born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:1024891