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  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Natural Language Processing

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  • Robots increasingly operate in human environments, necessitating clear communication.
  • Explaining robot behavior to nonexperts is crucial for trust and acceptance.
  • Current explanation methods often lack personalization and linguistic variety.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a framework for robots to generate personalized, context-aware explanations of their behavior.
  • To integrate causal reasoning, social roles, and natural language processing for explanation generation.
  • To enhance user appreciation of robot behavior explanations.

Main Methods:

  • Storing robot events as cause-effect pairs in a causal log.
  • Utilizing machine learning to match natural language queries to causal log entries.
  • Determining the social role of the human inquirer.
  • Refining initial explanations with a large language model (LLM) for linguistic diversity.
  • Tailoring explanations to the specific query and social role.

Main Results:

  • The proposed framework successfully generates personalized and factually accurate explanations.
  • LLM integration provides linguistically diverse responses.
  • Explanations combining causal information, social roles, and query context were most appreciated.
  • Both qualitative and quantitative experiments validated the approach's effectiveness.

Conclusions:

  • Integrating causal structures, social roles, and natural language queries enables personalized robot behavior explanations.
  • LLM-enhanced explanations improve linguistic variation while maintaining accuracy.
  • This framework significantly enhances user appreciation of robot actions in shared environments.