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Explaining Why Things Go Where They Go: Interpretable Constructs of Human Organizational Preferences

February 09, 2026

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Title: Explaining Why Things Go Where They Go: Interpretable Constructs of Human Organizational Preferences
ArXiv ID: 2512.24829
Date: 2025-12-31
Authors: Emmanuel Fashae, Michael Burke, Leimin Tian, Lingheng Meng, Pamela Carreno-Medrano

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Robotic systems for household object rearrangement often rely on latent preference models inferred from human demonstrations. While e ective at prediction, these models o er limited insight into the interpretable factors that guide human decisions. We introduce an explicit formulation of object arrangement preferences along four interpretable constructs: spatial practicality (putting items where they naturally t best in the space), habitual convenience (making frequently used items easy to reach), semantic coherence (placing items together if they are used for the same task or are contextually related), and commonsense appropriateness (putting things where people would usually expect to nd them). To capture these constructs, we designed and validated a self-report questionnaire through a 63-participant online study. Results con rm the psychological distinctiveness of these constructs and their explanatory power across two scenarios (kitchen and living room). We demonstrate the utility of these constructs by integrating them into a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) planner and show that when guided by participant-derived preferences, our planner can generate reasonable arran...

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