Past work on plan explanations primarily involved the AI system explaining the correctness
of its plan and the rationale for its decision in terms of its own model. Such soliloquy is …

Advanced social cognitive skills enhance the effectiveness of human-robot interactions.
Research shows that an important precursor to the development of these abilities in humans …

Goal Recognition is the task of inferring an agent's goal, from a set of hypotheses, given a
model of the environment dynamic, and a sequence of observations of such agent's …

For a plan to achieve some goal--to be valid--a set of sufficient and necessary conditions
must hold. In dynamic settings, agents (including humans) may come to hold false beliefs …

Goal Recognition is the task of discerning the intended goal of an agent given a sequence of
observations, whereas Plan Recognition consists of identifying the plan to achieve such …

Earley Parser is a top-down parser proposed for context-free grammars and used, for
example, in the grammar constraint. Parsing trees of context-free grammars are very close to …

As robotic teammates become more common in society, people will assess the robots' roles
in their interactions along many dimensions. One such dimension is effectiveness: people …

Automated care systems are becoming more tangible than ever: recent breakthroughs in
robotics and machine learning can be used to address the need for automated care created …

Goal or intent recognition, where one agent recognizes the goals or intentions of another,
can be a powerful tool for effective teamwork and improving interaction between agents …

Eva is a multimodal conversational system that helps users to accomplish their domain
goals through collaborative dialogue. The system does this by inferring users' intentions and …