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Scenario knowledge guides when and how to help kiosk users

A Scenario-Knowledge-Driven Pipeline for Just-in-Time Assistance

Abstract: Detecting a silently struggling kiosk user is only the first step; deciding whether, when, and how to help depends on scenario knowledge usually buried in model weights and thresholds. We propose a scenario-knowledge-driven pipeline: a single scenario knowledge document, human-authored and version-controlled, configures sensing, constrains LLM reasoning, and shapes a graded intervention proposal. Narration, assistance-need assessment, and proposal are kept separate for independent audit. As proof of concept, we replay two recorded kiosk sessions offline, chosen before the runs for their struggle evidence and retrospective detail. Both cases support what the design promises: checkable reporting and measured escalation. Across 95 updates, every sentence of the append-only narration cites the primitive events underlying it, and the rule layer detects 12 of 13 and 7 of 7 annotated struggle episodes under a strict criterion. The assessor de-escalates on recovery and reaches the top rung exactly once, under maximally converging evidence. At the decisive help-seeking turn, narration, assessment, and the participants' retrospective accounts converge. The appropriateness of these interventions, the pipeline's restraint on sessions without struggle, and the document's transfer to a new scenario frame the agenda.

Tue 15 SeptHuman-Computer Interaction
The gist
Many kiosks don’t know when a user is struggling, and helping at the wrong time or in the wrong way can be unhelpful. The authors created a system that uses a single document with detailed knowledge about the scenario to decide when and how to assist someone quietly struggling on a kiosk. Their system separates narration, assessment of need, and help proposals, so each can be checked independently. Testing on recorded kiosk sessions showed it could accurately detect struggles, decide when help is needed, and avoid unnecessary interruptions.
Open → 2609.17132v1