Visualizations for an Explainable Planning Agent

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

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