Persona-Based Requirements Engineering for Explainable Multi-Agent Educational Systems: A Scenario Simulator for Clinical Reasoning Training
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17186v1
- Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:18:44 GMT
- Title: Persona-Based Requirements Engineering for Explainable Multi-Agent Educational Systems: A Scenario Simulator for Clinical Reasoning Training
- Abstract summary: It is critical to ensure that Multi-Agent Education System (MAES) is explainable from the early stages of requirements engineering.<n>This paper proposes a human-first, persona-driven, explainable MAES RE framework and demonstrates the framework through a MAES for clinical reasoning training.
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- Abstract: As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Agentic AI become increasingly integrated across sectors such as education and healthcare, it is critical to ensure that Multi-Agent Education System (MAES) is explainable from the early stages of requirements engineering (RE) within the AI software development lifecycle. Explainability is essential to build trust, promote transparency, and enable effective human-AI collaboration. Although personas are well-established in human-computer interaction to represent users and capture their needs and behaviors, their role in RE for explainable MAES remains underexplored. This paper proposes a human-first, persona-driven, explainable MAES RE framework and demonstrates the framework through a MAES for clinical reasoning training. The framework integrates personas and user stories throughout the RE process to capture the needs, goals, and interactions of various stakeholders, including medical educators, medical students, AI patient agent, and clinical agents (physical exam agent, diagnostic agent, clinical intervention agent, supervisor agent, evaluation agent). The goals, underlying models, and knowledge base shape agent interactions and inform explainability requirements that guided the clinical reasoning training of medical students. A post-usage survey found that more than 78\% of medical students reported that MAES improved their clinical reasoning skills. These findings demonstrate that RE based on persona effectively connects technical requirements with non-technical medical students from a human-centered approach, ensuring that explainable MAES are trustworthy, interpretable, and aligned with authentic clinical scenarios from the early stages of the AI system engineering. The partial MAES for the clinical scenario simulator is~\href{https://github.com/2sigmaEdTech/MAS/}{open sourced here}.
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