Data Gathering

Research

We consolidated all of our data, and concluded that the major breakdown in the mixed initiative planning process was that the human planner and the computer planner did not always perform the task for which they were best suited. There were 2 main categories into which all of the breakdowns we uncovered within the mixed initiative planning process fell:
  1. human planners did not trust the computer planner
  2. human planners did not have adequate control over the system
Our data yielded 4 categories of breakdowns within the mixed initiative process which led to this conclusion:
  1. the display of final plan is not comprehensible to the human planner
  2. the human planner is unable to understand the computer planner’s decision-making process
  3. the human planner is unable to convey intent to planning system
  4. the human planner is unable to explore multiple plan solutions.

MI Planning: Breakdowns and Solutions