What Can I Do to Help You?: – A Formal Framework for Agents Reasoning About Behavior Change Support for People

Myrthe L. Tielman; M. Birna Van Riemsdijk; Michael Winikoff

doi:10.3233/FAIA230082

What Can I Do to Help You? – A Formal Framework for Agents Reasoning About Behavior Change Support for People

Myrthe L. Tielman, M. Birna Van Riemsdijk, Michael Winikoff

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Abstract

Changing one's behavior is difficult, so many people look towards technology for help. However, most current behavior change support systems are inflexible in that they support one type of behavior change and do not reason about how that behavior is embedded in larger behavior patterns. To allow users to flexibly decide what they desire to change, a system needs to represent and reason about that desire. Moreover, we argue that reasoning about the context of a behavior could improve an agent's support. Therefore, we propose a formal framework for a reasoning agent to represent and reason about the personal behavioral context of desired user changes. This framework models an individual's possible and current behavior, their desire for change, as well as other relevant changes that a system could use to support a desired change. In a user survey we show that people feel these other relevant changes would be useful in more flexibly supporting their desired change in behavior. This work provides a foundation for more flexible personalized behavior change support.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HHAI 2023: Augmenting Human Intellect
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence
Editors	Paul Lukowicz, Sven Mayer, Janin Koch, John Shawe-Taylor, Ilaria Tiddi
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	IOS
Pages	168-181
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-64368-395-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-64368-394-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230082
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2023
Event	2nd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, HHAI 2023 - Design Offices Macherei, Munich, Germany Duration: 26 Jun 2023 → 30 Jun 2023 Conference number: 2

Publication series

Name	Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Publisher	IOS Press
Volume	368
ISSN (Print)	0922-6389
ISSN (Electronic)	1879-8314

Conference

Conference	2nd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, HHAI 2023
Abbreviated title	HHAI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Munich
Period	26/06/23 → 30/06/23

Keywords

behavior change
behavior trees
formal framework

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Dataset belonging to the paper: What can I do to help you?
Tielman, M. (Creator), van Riemsdijk, M. B. (Creator) & Winikoff, M. (Creator), 4TU.Centre for Research Data, 24 Apr 2023
DOI: 10.4121/22099832, https://data.4tu.nl/datasets/775c92a7-68ed-4b36-a851-e909e73bd3c6
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Tielman, M. L., Riemsdijk, M. B. V., & Winikoff, M. (2023). What Can I Do to Help You? – A Formal Framework for Agents Reasoning About Behavior Change Support for People. In P. Lukowicz, S. Mayer, J. Koch, J. Shawe-Taylor, & I. Tiddi (Eds.), HHAI 2023: Augmenting Human Intellect: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (pp. 168-181). (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 368). IOS. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230082

Tielman, Myrthe L. ; Riemsdijk, M. Birna Van ; Winikoff, Michael. / What Can I Do to Help You? – A Formal Framework for Agents Reasoning About Behavior Change Support for People. HHAI 2023: Augmenting Human Intellect: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. editor / Paul Lukowicz ; Sven Mayer ; Janin Koch ; John Shawe-Taylor ; Ilaria Tiddi. Amsterdam : IOS, 2023. pp. 168-181 (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications).

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Tielman, ML, Riemsdijk, MBV & Winikoff, M 2023, What Can I Do to Help You? – A Formal Framework for Agents Reasoning About Behavior Change Support for People. in P Lukowicz, S Mayer, J Koch, J Shawe-Taylor & I Tiddi (eds), HHAI 2023: Augmenting Human Intellect: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 368, IOS, Amsterdam, pp. 168-181, 2nd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, HHAI 2023, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, 26/06/23. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA230082

What Can I Do to Help You? – A Formal Framework for Agents Reasoning About Behavior Change Support for People. / Tielman, Myrthe L.; Riemsdijk, M. Birna Van; Winikoff, Michael.
HHAI 2023: Augmenting Human Intellect: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. ed. / Paul Lukowicz; Sven Mayer; Janin Koch; John Shawe-Taylor; Ilaria Tiddi. Amsterdam: IOS, 2023. p. 168-181 (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Vol. 368).

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Tielman ML, Riemsdijk MBV, Winikoff M. What Can I Do to Help You? – A Formal Framework for Agents Reasoning About Behavior Change Support for People. In Lukowicz P, Mayer S, Koch J, Shawe-Taylor J, Tiddi I, editors, HHAI 2023: Augmenting Human Intellect: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence. Amsterdam: IOS. 2023. p. 168-181. (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications). doi: 10.3233/FAIA230082