Explanation through behavior: a human-inspired framework for explainable robotics

Marwen Belkaid

Keywords: explainability, communicative behavior, non-verbal signals, human-robot interaction

TL;DR: Human-inspired framework in which robots' observable behavior gives human observers insights into their hidden internal processes

Abstract: Can robots' observable behavior give human observers insights into their hidden internal processes? This paper examines this idea with the aim of developing a framework for explainability in robotics. This framework constitutes a promising avenue for the development of intuitive human-robot interactions in which people would use the same brain mechanisms on which they rely to understand other humans during social interactions.