Explainable Autonomy: A Study of Explanation Styles for Building Clear Mental Models

no code implementations • WS 2018 • Francisco Javier Chiyah Garcia, David A. Robb, Xingkun Liu, Atanas Laskov, Pedro Patron, Helen Hastie

As unmanned vehicles become more autonomous, it is important to maintain a high level of transparency regarding their behaviour and how they operate.

Text Generation

MIRIAM: A Multimodal Chat-Based Interface for Autonomous Systems

no code implementations • 6 Mar 2018 • Helen Hastie, Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, David A. Robb, Pedro Patron, Atanas Laskov

We present MIRIAM (Multimodal Intelligent inteRactIon for Autonomous systeMs), a multimodal interface to support situation awareness of autonomous vehicles through chat-based interaction.

Autonomous Vehicles

Explain Yourself: A Natural Language Interface for Scrutable Autonomous Robots

no code implementations • 6 Mar 2018 • Francisco J. Chiyah Garcia, David A. Robb, Xingkun Liu, Atanas Laskov, Pedro Patron, Helen Hastie

Autonomous systems in remote locations have a high degree of autonomy and there is a need to explain what they are doing and why in order to increase transparency and maintain trust.