Toward Foraging for Understanding of StarCraft Agents: An Empirical Study [article]

Sean Penney, Jonathan Dodge, Claudia Hilderbrand, Andrew Anderson, Logan Simpson, Margaret Burnett
2017 arXiv   pre-print
Assessing and understanding intelligent agents is a difficult task for users that lack an AI background. A relatively new area, called "Explainable AI," is emerging to help address this problem, but little is known about how users would forage through information an explanation system might offer. To inform the development of Explainable AI systems, we conducted a formative study, using the lens of Information Foraging Theory, into how experienced users foraged in the domain of StarCraft to
more » ... ss an agent. Our results showed that participants faced difficult foraging problems. These foraging problems caused participants to entirely miss events that were important to them, reluctantly choose to ignore actions they did not want to ignore, and bear high cognitive, navigation, and information costs to access the information they needed.
arXiv:1711.08019v3 fatcat:flsgq2telbbydbzi4ozhum5zuy