CoPlan: A Trustworthy Co-Intelligence Interface for Care Planning through Role-Based Contestable Argument Graphs
2026-08-05 • Artificial Intelligence
Artificial IntelligenceMultiagent SystemsSoftware Engineering
AI summaryⓘ
The authors created CoPlan, a tool that helps doctors and care teams work with AI to make better care plans, especially for older adults living at home. Unlike usual AI systems that give fixed recommendations, CoPlan lets humans review and change suggestions, making sure plans fit patient needs and real-world situations. The system uses multiple AI agents to propose ideas and arguments, while humans can accept, reject, or adjust them before finalizing the care plan. This approach keeps humans in control and ensures care decisions are trustworthy and flexible.
AI-supported care planningco-intelligencecontestabilitymulti-agent workflowhuman-AI collaborationclinical decision makingaging-in-placecare team coordinationadaptive planning
Authors
Hung Truong Thanh Nguyen, Hélène Fournier, Piper Jackson, Makoto Itoh, Shannon Freeman, Rene Richard, Hung Cao
Abstract
AI-supported care planning can help clinicians, patients, caregivers, and care teams coordinate complex decisions across clinical, functional, psychosocial, and environmental needs. However, many AI systems present recommendations as fixed outputs, limiting stakeholders' ability to inspect, challenge, and revise plans when they conflict with clinical judgment, patient values, or real-world feasibility. We present CoPlan - a Co-Intelligent and Contestable Interface for Human-AI Care Planning. CoPlan uses a multi-agent workflow in which specialized AI agents generate candidate interventions and supporting or challenging arguments, while human care planners can accept, reject, modify, or add arguments before final plan generation. Through this design, CoPlan combines co-intelligence, in which humans and AI agents contribute complementary expertise, with contestability, where recommendations remain open to inspection, revision, and justification. We demonstrate CoPlan in an aging-in-place care planning scenario. The system supports adaptive care team recruitment, role-based argument review, final care plan generation, and practical follow-up through scheduling agents. This work contributes a contestable care planning interface and a design framing for trustworthy human-AI care planning that preserves human agency and clinical accountability.