Authoring Guide for Cognitive Tutorials for Artificial Intelligence: Purposes and Methods

The Cognitive Tutorial concept is based on the view that the genuine cognitive challenges to forming functional and accurate mental models of AI systems can be formalized, documented, and "trained in." Its purpose is to serve as a means of global explanation of an AI or machine learning system. A Cognitive Tutorial is created specifically to accelerate proficiency at learning to use intelligent software tools. Therefore, it would be a valuable addition to any "toolkit" for ensuring that intelligent systems are explainable, are adequately explained to users, and the users are satisfied with their understanding of the system. This Report describes the procedures for creating a Cognitive Tutorial, the modules that comprise a Cognitive Tutorial, and example Cognitive Tutorials applied to two AI systems.