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Communicating agent intentions for human-agent decision making under uncertainty.

Porteous, J., Lindsay, A. and Charles, F., 2023. Communicating agent intentions for human-agent decision making under uncertainty. In: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 290-298.

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Abstract

Recent advances in visualisation technologies have opened up new possibilities for human-agent communication. For systems where agents use automated planning, visualisation of agent intentions, i.e., agent planned actions, can assist human understanding and decision making (e.g., deciding when human control is required or when it can be delegated to an agent). We are working in an application area, shipbuilding, where branched plans are often essential, due to the typical uncertainty experienced. Our focus is how best to communicate, using visualisation, the key information content of branched plans. It is important that such visualisations communicate the complexity and variety of the possible agent intentions i.e., executions, captured in a branched plan, whilst also connecting to the practitioner’s understanding of the problem. Thus we utilise an approach to generate the complete branched plan, to be able to provide a full picture of its complexity, and a mechanism to select a subset of diverse traces that characterise the possible agent intentions. We have developed an interface which uses 3D visualisation to communicate details of these characterising execution traces. Using this interface, we conducted a study evaluating the impact of different modes of presentation on user understanding. Our results support our expectation that visualisation of branched plan characterising execution traces increases user understanding of agent intention and plan execution possibilities.

Item Type:Book Section
ISBN:9781450394321
Uncontrolled Keywords:Virtual Agents; Human-Agent Decision Making; Explainable AI Planning
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:38053
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:10 Feb 2023 15:52
Last Modified:22 May 2024 14:19

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