TY - GEN
T1 - A computational analysis of cognitive effort
AU - Longo, Luca
AU - Barrett, Stephen
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Cognitive effort is a concept of unquestionable utility in understanding human behaviour. However, cognitive effort has been defined in several ways in literature and in everyday life, suffering from a partial understanding. It is common to say "Pay more attention in studying that subject" or "How much effort did you spend in resolving that task?", but what does it really mean? This contribution tries to clarify the concept of cognitive effort, by introducing its main influencing factors and by presenting a formalism which provides us with a tool for precise discussion. The formalism is implementable as a computational concept and can therefore be embedded in an artificial agent and tested experimentally. Its applicability in the domain of AI is raised and the formalism provides a step towards a proper understanding and definition of human cognitive effort.
AB - Cognitive effort is a concept of unquestionable utility in understanding human behaviour. However, cognitive effort has been defined in several ways in literature and in everyday life, suffering from a partial understanding. It is common to say "Pay more attention in studying that subject" or "How much effort did you spend in resolving that task?", but what does it really mean? This contribution tries to clarify the concept of cognitive effort, by introducing its main influencing factors and by presenting a formalism which provides us with a tool for precise discussion. The formalism is implementable as a computational concept and can therefore be embedded in an artificial agent and tested experimentally. Its applicability in the domain of AI is raised and the formalism provides a step towards a proper understanding and definition of human cognitive effort.
KW - Artificial Intelligence
KW - Cognitive Effort
KW - Virtual Agents
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77956530772&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-12101-2_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-12101-2_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77956530772
SN - 9783642121005
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 65
EP - 74
BT - Intelligent Information and Database Systems - Second International Conference, ACIIDS, Proceedings
T2 - 2010 Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2010
Y2 - 24 March 2010 through 26 March 2010
ER -