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Cognitive Exoskeleton: Augmenting Human Cognition with an AI-Mediated Intelligent Visual Feedback

Published: July 9, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2508.00846v1

By: Songlin Xu, Xinyu Zhang

Potential Business Impact:

Helps people solve math problems faster and better.

In this paper, we introduce an AI-mediated framework that can provide intelligent feedback to augment human cognition. Specifically, we leverage deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to provide adaptive time pressure feedback to improve user performance in a math arithmetic task. Time pressure feedback could either improve or deteriorate user performance by regulating user attention and anxiety. Adaptive time pressure feedback controlled by a DRL policy according to users' real-time performance could potentially solve this trade-off problem. However, the DRL training and hyperparameter tuning may require large amounts of data and iterative user studies. Therefore, we propose a dual-DRL framework that trains a regulation DRL agent to regulate user performance by interacting with another simulation DRL agent that mimics user cognition behaviors from an existing dataset. Our user study demonstrates the feasibility and effectiveness of the dual-DRL framework in augmenting user performance, in comparison to the baseline group.

Country of Origin
🇺🇸 United States

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Page Count
16 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Human-Computer Interaction