SHIFT: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Scaffolding Human Attention and Understanding in Explanatory Tasks

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Hauptverfasser: Groß, André, Richter, Birte, Wrede, Britta
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Groß, André
Richter, Birte
Wrede, Britta
author_facet Groß, André
Richter, Birte
Wrede, Britta
contents In this work, we present a domain-independent approach for adaptive scaffolding in robotic explanation generation to guide tasks in human-robot interaction. We present a method for incorporating interdisciplinary research results into a computational model as a pre-configured scoring system implemented in a framework called SHIFT. This involves outlining a procedure for integrating concepts from disciplines outside traditional computer science into a robotics computational framework. Our approach allows us to model the human cognitive state into six observable states within the human partner model. To study the pre-configuration of the system, we implement a reinforcement learning approach on top of our model. This approach allows adaptation to individuals who deviate from the configuration of the scoring system. Therefore, in our proof-of-concept evaluation, the model's adaptability on four different user types shows that the models' adaptation performs better, i.e., recouped faster after exploration and has a higher accumulated reward with our pre-configured scoring system than without it. We discuss further strategies of speeding up the learning phase to enable a realistic adaptation behavior to real users. The system is accessible through docker and supports querying via ROS.
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spellingShingle SHIFT: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Scaffolding Human Attention and Understanding in Explanatory Tasks
Groß, André
Richter, Birte
Wrede, Britta
Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics
In this work, we present a domain-independent approach for adaptive scaffolding in robotic explanation generation to guide tasks in human-robot interaction. We present a method for incorporating interdisciplinary research results into a computational model as a pre-configured scoring system implemented in a framework called SHIFT. This involves outlining a procedure for integrating concepts from disciplines outside traditional computer science into a robotics computational framework. Our approach allows us to model the human cognitive state into six observable states within the human partner model. To study the pre-configuration of the system, we implement a reinforcement learning approach on top of our model. This approach allows adaptation to individuals who deviate from the configuration of the scoring system. Therefore, in our proof-of-concept evaluation, the model's adaptability on four different user types shows that the models' adaptation performs better, i.e., recouped faster after exploration and has a higher accumulated reward with our pre-configured scoring system than without it. We discuss further strategies of speeding up the learning phase to enable a realistic adaptation behavior to real users. The system is accessible through docker and supports querying via ROS.
title SHIFT: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Scaffolding Human Attention and Understanding in Explanatory Tasks
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16447