@inproceedings {pub4163,
	title = {Theory of Mind based Communication for Human Agent Cooperation
},
	author = {Moritz B{\"u}hler AND Thomas H Weisswange},
	year = {2020},
	month = {April},
	abstract = {For human agent cooperation, reasoning about the
partner is necessary to enable an efficient interaction. To provide
helpful information, it is important not only to account for
environmental uncertainties or dangers but also to maintain a
sophisticated understanding of each other{\textquoteright}s mental state, a theory
of mind. Sharing every piece of information is not a good idea,
as some may be irrelevant at time or already known, leading to
distraction and annoyance. Instead, an agent will have to estimate
the novelty and relevance of information for the receiver, to trade
off the cost of communication against potential benefits.
We propose the concept of theory of mind based communication 
as principled formulation to ground an agents cooperative
communication on an understanding of the receiver{\textquoteright}s mental
states to support her awareness and action selection. Therefore
we formulate the problem of whether, when and what information
to share as a sequential decision process with the human belief
as central source of uncertainty. The agent{\textquoteright}s communication
decision is obtained online during interaction by combining a
second level Bayesian inference of human belief with planning
under uncertainty, evaluating the influence of communication
on the human belief and her future decisions. We discuss the
resulting behavior on an illustrative communication scenario with
different uncertain state aspects that an observing agent can
communicate to the actor.
},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems},
	city = {Rome, Italy}
}