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A Computational Analysis of Cognitive Effort

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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.

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  • Cognitive Effort
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Virtual Agents

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin,  

    Luca Longo & Stephen Barrett

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Str. Wyb. Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370, Poland

    Ngoc Thanh Nguyen

  2. Hue University, Str. Le Loi 3, Hue City, Vietnam

    Manh Thanh Le

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Technology, Str. Lukasiewicza, 50-370, Wroclaw, Poland

    Jerzy Świątek

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Longo, L., Barrett, S. (2010). A Computational Analysis of Cognitive Effort. In: Nguyen, N.T., Le, M.T., Świątek, J. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5991. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12101-2_8

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