Start Making Sense

Cognitive and Affective Confidence Measures for Explanation Generation using Epistemic Planning

Overview

The Start Making Sense project addresses the need for dynamic trust maintenance in interactive and autonomous systems by bringing together experimental research in cognitive science involving cooperative joint action with the practical construction of AI planning tools to apply to the task of explanation generation. This challenge is addressed through these concrete objectives:

People

Ron Petrick, Principal Investigator, Heriot-Watt University

Robin Hill, Co-Investigator, University of Edinburgh

Sara Dalzel-Job, Researcher, University of Edinburgh

Bart Craenen, Researcher, Heriot-Watt University

Alan Lindsay, Researcher, Heriot-Watt University

We are indebted to our friend and colleague, Jon Oberlander, who helped shape this project but whose unexpected passing in 2017 meant that we had to proceed without his invaluable collaboration. Jon is sorely missed and this project is dedicated to his memory.

Project Publications