Visualizations for an Explainable Planning Agent

Tathagata Chakraborti, Kshitij P. Fadnis, Kartik Talamadupula, Mishal Dholakia, Biplav Srivastava, Jeffrey O. Kephart, Rachel K. E. Bellamy

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Demos. Pages 5820-5822.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/849

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Abstract

In this demonstration, we report on the visualization capabilities of an Explainable AI Planning (XAIP) agent that can support human-in-the-loop decision-making. Imposing transparency and explainability requirements on such agents is crucial for establishing human trust and common ground with an end-to-end automated planning system. Visualizing the agent's internal decision making processes is a crucial step towards achieving this. This may include externalizing the "brain" of the agent: starting from its sensory inputs, to progressively higher order decisions made by it in order to drive its planning components. We demonstrate these functionalities in the context of a smart assistant in the Cognitive Environments Laboratory at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center.

Keywords

  • Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: Intelligent User Interfaces
  • Planning and Scheduling: Activity and Plan Recognition
  • Planning and Scheduling: Applications of Planning
  • Planning and Scheduling: Planning and Scheduling
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