Paper Info
Title
Personalised Self-Explanation By Robots: The Role Of Goals Versus Beliefs In Robot-Action Explanation For Children And Adults
Abstract
A good explanation takes the user who is receiving the explanation into account. We aim to get a better understanding of user preferences and the differences between children and adults who receive explanations from a robot. We implemented a Nao-robot as a belief-desire-intention (BDI)-based agent and explained its actions using two different explanation styles. Both are based on how humans explain and justify their actions to each other. One explanation style communicates the beliefs that give context information on why the agent performed the action. The other explanation style communicates the goals that inform the user of the agent's desired state when performing the action. We conducted a user study (19 children, 19 adults) in which a Nao-robot performed actions to support type 1 diabetes mellitus management. We investigated the preference of children and adults for goal versus belief-based action explanations. From this, we learned that adults have a significantly higher tendency to prefer goal based action explanations. This work is a necessary step in addressing the challenge of providing personalised explanations in human-robot and human-agent interaction.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
2017 26TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ROBOT AND HUMAN INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION (RO-MAN)
Intelligent agent,Intelligent decision support system,Simulation,Psychology,Cognitive psychology,Robot,Self explanation,Human–robot interaction,Humanoid robot
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1944-9445
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
7
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Frank Kaptein1141.68
Joost Broekens234437.07
Koen V. Hindriks323837.43
Mark A. Neerincx475796.80