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  1. A barrier or a booster? Familiarity effects on Mandarin emotion prosody recognition using AI-powered voice cloning

    Sep 30, 2026Feng Xu, Gaoyuan Zhang, Shanshan Xue +4Cross-Lingual Voice CloningProsody

    Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Department of Linguistics, Macquarie University

  2. DocuTeam: Mixed-Initiative Multi-Agent Discussions around Evolving Documents

    Sep 24, 2026Heechan Lee, Juhyeon Choi, Tae Soo Kim +2CollaborationArtificial Intelligence Agents

    School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · SkillBench, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

  3. Teaching Reinforcement Learning and Humanoid Robotics to High-School Students: An Expert-Validated Curriculum Design on a Low-Cost Open Platform

    Sep 22, 2026Yuanzhe Dong, Jie Cao, Shuman WangScalable Robot LearningHumanoid Robotics

    Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA

  4. Online Multimodal Workload Assessment in Contact-Rich Physical Human-Robot Interaction

    Sep 16, 2026Yanyi Chen, Fan Yang, Min DengHuman-Robot InteractionHaptic Feedback

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA · College of Information and Communications, University of South Carolina, SC 29208, USA

  5. A Vision Based Framework Integrating Attention and Action Cues for Interpretable Cognitive Workload Assessment in Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly

    Sep 14, 2026Junyan Xiong, Naiyi Feng, Xingke Xia +3Human-Robot CollaborationAssembly

    Smart Manufacturing Thrust, System Hub, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China · College of Future Technology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China

  6. KnowVis: Knowledge-Centric Visual Summarization for Video Lectures

    Sep 3, 2026Yi Xu, Yifan Hou, Xiaoyu ZhangVideo UnderstandingSummarization

    City University of Hong Kong · ETH Zürich

  7. How Do Prompt Variations Affect Energy Consumption in On-Device LLMs?

    Sep 1, 2026Wei Hu, Xiaolong Tu, Dawei Chen +3LLM Inference OptimizationEnergy Consumption

    Georgia State University · Toyota Motor North America

  8. RecalibrateGPT: AI Fatigue Resilient Conversational Interfaces

    Sep 1, 2026Nikhil WaniConversational Artificial IntelligenceCognitive Load

    OpenThreads AI Research

  9. Toward the Cognitive--Physical Limits of Embodied Intelligence through a World-Model-Centric Autonomous Racing Agent

    Aug 11, 2026Zitong Shan, Baichuan Lou, Yanxin Zhou +8Autonomous RacingEmbodied Artificial Intelligence

    School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore. · K2 Holding, L.L.C, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates +1

  10. Design and Evaluation of a Touchscreen-Based Teleoperation Interface for Robotic Manipulators

    Aug 6, 2026Juan José García Cárdenas, Alperen Kenan, Hamidreza Raei +4TeleoperationRobotic Hands

    Computer Science and System Engineering Department (U2IS), Autonomous Systems and Robotics Lab, ENSTA, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Paris, France · Human-Robot Interaction at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom · IIT, Genova, Italy +1

  11. An entropic explanation of insistence on sameness in autism

    Aug 5, 2026Przemysław ŚliwińskiAutism Spectrum DisorderEntropy

    Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland.

  12. PACE: Adaptive Budget Allocation for Time-Efficient Embodied Planning

    Aug 4, 2026Yuchen Huang, Xijiang Ying, Zhenhua Ma +14Cognitive LoadToken Budget Allocation

    ZTE Corporation · Shanghai, China

  13. Action-grounded tissue affordance enables anticipatory auto-framing that lowers surgeon cognitive workload during laparoscopic surgery

    Aug 3, 2026Jiayu Gu, Yiwei Wang, Jie Zhang +14Surgical RobotsSurgery

    Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China · School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China · Institute of Medical Equipment Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China +3

  14. Cognitive Demand Steering for Adaptive Meta-Reasoning in Large Language Models

    Aug 2, 2026John Scoville, Shengzhuang Chen, Yejin Bang +2LLM Reasoning StrategiesCognitive Science

    Thomson Reuters Foundational Research · Imperial College London

  15. Distilling Reasoning Traces into Advisory Prompts for Software Engineering Tasks

    Aug 1, 2026Faizan Faisal, Prem Devanbu, Toufique AhmedAi-Assisted Programming TasksSoftware Engineering

    University of California, Davis · IBM

  16. Using Theory of Mind to Arbitrate between Social and Non-social Learning

    Jul 30, 2026Lance Ying, Ryan Truong, Joshua B. Tenenbaum +1Social ReasoningUtility Maximization

    1Harvard University · 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  17. How Reliable Are Multimodal Signals of Conversational State? Evidence from Remote Dyadic Collaborative Tasks

    Jul 20, 2026Tahiya ChowdhuryConversational ContextProsody

    Colby College Waterville, Maine, United States

  18. The Context Access Divide: Interaction-Level Architecture as a Complementary Dimension of Agentic Inequality

    Jul 9, 2026Masahiro FujitaHuman-Ai CollaborationArtificial Intelligence Governance

    Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University

  19. Factors Influencing Conversational Engagement in Robot-Delivered Individual Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (iCST) for Dementia in Home Settings

    Jul 9, 2026Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole SalomonsCognitive Behavioral TherapyCognitive Load

    Imperial College London

  20. Three-Phase Evaluation of AI-Assisted Software Development Life Cycle

    Jul 6, 2026Joshua Strubel, Professor Carrie Russell, Carson Crockett +4Software EngineeringCognitive Load

    Dr. Joshua Strübel, Professor Carrie Russell, Carson Crockett, Jason Ferraro, Nathan Londhe, Uzayr Syed, and Jacob Viehe

  21. Single-Channel EEG-Based Cognitive Load Assessment in Online Learning: A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach

    Jul 2, 2026Rowan Hussein, Mohamed OufSmall-Sample Electroencephalogram DatasetsCognitive Load

    University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada

  22. Dynamo: Dynamic Skill-Tool Evolution for Vision-Language Agents

    Jun 29, 2026Yutao Sun, Yanting Miao, Hao-Xuan Ma +8Recent Vision-Language ModelsDynawm

    1Qwen Large Model Application Team, Alibaba · 2Zhejiang University · University of Waterloo +3

  23. Content-Based Smart E-Mail Dispatcher Using Large Language Models

    Jun 25, 2026K. Paramesha, K R Sriram, Sujan Shetty +2Large Language Model WorkflowsScalability

    Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysuru, India

  24. What the LLM Should Not Say: Boundary-Aware Context Grounding for A Seven-Channel EEG Agent

    Jun 25, 2026Zhiyuan Xu, Yueqing Dai, Junling Li +1ElectroencephalographyLarge Language Models(Llms

    Shanghai Pulse Element Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (NeuraDock)

  25. NeuraDock Visual Cognitive Load Agent Tutorial: A Quality-Gated Open-Source EEG Workflow for Alpha Dynamics and Real-Time Applications

    Jun 25, 2026Zhiyuan Xu, Yueqing Dai, Junling Li +1ElectroencephalographyCognitive Load

    Shanghai Pulse Element Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (NeuraDock)

  26. EveLoad: Cognitive Workload Recognition from Event-Based Eye Movements

    Jun 23, 2026Guorui Lu, Shaohua Guan, Zhen Xu +1Eye TrackingCognitive Load

    Leiden University, The Netherlands

  27. A comparative and critical study of EEGNet for fNIRS-driven cognitive load classification

    Jun 15, 2026Mehshan Ahmed Khan, Houshyar Asadi, Li Zhang +8Cognitive LoadIndependent Component Analysis

    Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation (IISRI), Deakin University, Geelong Warun Ponds Campus, Victoria 3216, Australia · Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom · College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4814, Australia +4

  28. SCAN: A Decision-Making Framework for Effective Task Allocation with Generative AI

    Jun 14, 2026Fendi Tsim, Alina GutorevaHuman-Ai CollaborationGenerative Artificial Intelligence

    1Independent Researcher, London, United Kingdom · School of IT and Engineering, Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

  29. Understanding and Modeling Perceived Cognitive and Physical Strain Dynamics for Planning-Oriented Human-Robot Collaboration in Prefabricated Construction

    Jun 13, 2026Yifan Wang, Bo Xiao, Shane T. MuellerHuman-Robot CollaborationCognitive Load

    Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, 49931 MI, USA. · Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, 49931 MI, USA. · Professor, Department of Psychology and Human Factors, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, 49931 MI, USA.

  30. Cognitive Debt: AI as Intellectual Leverage and the Dynamics of Systemic Fragility

    Jun 13, 2026Shuchen MengCognitive LoadCognitive Science

    New York University

  31. Faithful, Not Corrective: Model Capability Governs Message-Format Effects in Multi-Hop Agent Relays

    Jun 12, 2026Sicheng ZengProtocolMulti-Hop Reasoning

    Independent Researcher

  32. Naive Visual Memory is Not Enough: A Failure-Mode Study of GUI Agents

    Jun 12, 2026Seoyoung Choi, Minseok Ko, Hyunseok Lee +4Graphical User Interface AgentsGraphical User Interface

    1Seoul National University · 2POSTECH · 3KAIST +1

  33. The Silent Cost of Artificial Intelligence Assistance: A Theory of Autonomy Surrender, the Recovery Mechanism, and the Restoration of Human Agency

    Jun 11, 2026Ancuta Margondai, Julie Rader, Emma Rader +2Artificial Intelligence GovernanceHuman Agency

    Department of Modeling and Simulation University of Central Florida

  34. Predicting Cognitive Load from Speech and Interaction Dynamics in Dyadic Conversations

    Jun 11, 2026Tahiya ChowdhuryCognitive LoadTurn-Taking

    Department of Computer Science, Colby College, Waterville, Maine, USA

  35. Human Oversight and Overload: Two Hidden and Costly Burdens of AI-Assisted Software Engineering

    Jun 4, 2026Vahid GarousiSoftware EngineeringCognitive Load

    Queen’s University Belfast, UK · Azerbaijan Technical University, Azerbaijan

  36. Question Type, Cognitive Load, and CEFR Alignment: Evaluating LLM-Generated EFL Grammar Drill Exercises

    Jun 1, 2026Steve Woollaston, Brendan Flanagan, Yuko Toyokawa +1Cognitive LoadPedagogical Frameworks

    Kyoto University, Japan · Ritsumeikan University, Japan

  37. Cognitive Fatigue in Autoregressive Transformers: Formalization and Measurement

    May 29, 2026Riju Marwah, Ritvik Garimella, Vishal Pallagani +3Large Language Models FailAutoregressive Language Models

    Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India · Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of South Carolina, USA · Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India +1

  38. Offloading Score: Measuring AI Reliance Through Counterfactual Workflows

    May 28, 2026Vishakh Padmakumar, Lujain Ibrahim, Zora Zhiruo Wang +3Cognitive LoadOffloading

    Stanford University · University of Oxford · Carnegie Mellon University +1

  39. StructBreak: Structural Cognitive Overload-Induced Safety Failures in MLLMs

    May 25, 2026Yang Luo, Xinran Liu, Tiantian Ji +3Large Language Model SafetyMultimodal Large Language Models

    Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Distributed Computing and Service (MoE), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  40. Assessing Region-Level EEG Contributions to Cognitive Workload Prediction

    May 23, 2026Jacob Wong, Sohan Singh, Prannaya Gupta +3ElectroencephalographyCognitive Load

    School of InfoComm Technology, Ngee Ann Polytechnic · Engineering Product Development Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design · NUS High School of Math and Science

  41. Defining AI Fatigue in Academic Contexts: Dimensions, Indicators, and a Stage-Based Model Using Grounded Theory

    May 22, 2026John Paul P. Miranda, Emmanuel B. Parreño, Jovita G. RiveraCognitive LoadStudent

    Pampanga State University Pampanga, Philippines

  42. VideoOdyssey: A Benchmark for Ultra-Long-Context and Omni-Modal Video Understanding

    May 21, 2026Haichen He, Jiayi Zhou, Sifeng Shang +3Video UnderstandingLong-Video Benchmarks

    Hong Kong Baptist University · GVC Lab, Great Bay University · S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University

  43. MambaGaze: Bidirectional Mamba with Explicit Missing Data Modeling for Cognitive Load Assessment from Eye-Gaze Tracking Data

    May 21, 2026Amir Mousavi, Mohammad Sadegh Sirjani, Erfan Nourbakhsh +5Eye TrackingCognitive Load

    Department of Computer Science, College of AI, Cyber and Computing, The University of Texas at San Antonio · Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, College of Sciences, The University of Texas at San Antonio · Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education and Human Development, The University of Texas at San Antonio

  44. CogAdapt: Adapting Clinical ECG Foundation Models for Wearable Cognitive Load Assessment

    May 21, 2026Amir Mousavi, Erfan Nourbakhsh, Mohammad Sadegh Sirjani +5Electrocardiogram Foundation ModelsWearable Physiology

    Department of Computer Science, College of AI, Cyber and Computing, The University of Texas at San Antonio · Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, College of Sciences, The University of Texas at San Antonio · Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education and Human Development, The University of Texas at San Antonio

  45. Using Biometrics to Understand AI-Assisted Coding Performance and its Perception

    May 19, 2026Paolo Burelli, Fabio Calefato, Daniela Grassi +5Ai-Assisted Programming TasksCognitive Load

    IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark · University of Bari, Italy

  46. Towards Gaze-Informed AI Disclosure Interfaces: Eye-Tracking Attentional and Cognitive Load While Reading AI-Assisted News

    May 14, 2026Pooja Prajod, Hannes Cools, Thomas Röggla +2Cognitive LoadHeadlines

    Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Amsterdam, The Netherlands · University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands · TU Delft +1

  47. Modeling Bounded Rationality in Drug Shortage Pharmacists Using Attention-Guided Dynamic Decomposition

    May 13, 2026Yaniv Eliyahu Amiri, Noah Chicoine, Jacqueline Griffin +1Sequential Decision MakingRationality

    Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA · Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA · Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

  48. The Bystander Effect in Multi-Agent Reasoning: Quantifying Cognitive Loafing in Collaborative Interactions

    May 11, 2026Dahlia Shehata, Ming LiMulti-Agent ReasoningCollaboration

    University of Waterloo Canada

  49. Playing games with knowledge: AI-Induced delusions need game theoretic interventions

    May 8, 2026Will Beaumaster, Paul SchraterEpistemic AsymmetryGame Theory

    University of Minnesota

  50. HyperLens: Quantifying Cognitive Effort in LLMs with Fine-grained Confidence Trajectory

    May 7, 2026Chengda Lu, Xiaoyu Fan, Wei XuLLM Inference OptimizationCognitive Load

    1IIIS, Tsinghua University · 2Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute.

  51. Assessing Cognitive Effort in L2 Idiomatic Processing: An Eye-Tracking Dataset

    May 6, 2026Eduardo Santos, Juliana Carvalho, César Rennó-CostaEye TrackingIdiom

    Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil

  52. Structural Ranking of the Cognitive Plausibility of Computational Models of Analogy and Metaphors with the Minimal Cognitive Grid

    May 2, 2026Alessio Donvito, Antonio LietoCognitive ScienceAnalogy

    University of Bari, Italy · University of Salerno, CIIT Lab / ICAR-CNR, Italy

  53. Quantifying and Mitigating Self-Preference Bias of LLM Judges

    Apr 24, 2026Jinming Yang, Zheng Hu, Chuxian Qiu +3Large Language Model BiasLarge Language Model Judges

    CompleX Lab, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

  54. Conjecture and Inquiry: Quantifying Software Performance Requirements via Interactive Retrieval-Augmented Preference Elicitation

    Apr 23, 2026Shihai Wang, Tao ChenElicitationSoftware Engineering

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, UESTC, Chengdu, China · IDEAS Lab, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

  55. One-Block Transformer (1BT) for EEG-Based Cognitive Workload Assessment

    Apr 21, 2026Stefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Thomas Kassiotis +3Inference WorkloadsCognitive Load

    Honda Research Institute Japan · Wako City, Japan · Department of Electronic Engineering +6

  56. Less Is More: Cognitive Load and the Single-Prompt Ceiling in LLM Mathematical Reasoning

    Apr 20, 2026Manuel Israel CazaresMathematical ReasoningLLM Reasoning Strategies

    Bytepro AI Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico

  57. Dual Alignment Between Language Model Layers and Human Sentence Processing

    Apr 20, 2026Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Alex Warstadt, Yohei Oseki +1Natural LanguageSurprisal

    MBZUAI · Tohoku University · UC San Diego +2

  58. Modeling Multi-Dimensional Cognitive States in Large Language Models under Cognitive Crowding

    Apr 19, 2026Lin Zhong, Siyu Zhu, Zizhen Yuan +5Multimodal Large Language ModelsCognitive Science

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · City University of Macau, Macao SAR, China · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China

  59. Robot Programming with Augmented Reality: The Role of Spatial Ability

    Feb 3, 2026Nicolas Leins, Muriel Fischer, Malte Teichmann +2Augmented RealityHuman-Robot Interaction

    Zuse Institute Berlin, Takustraße 7, 14195 Berlin, Germany · Weizenbaum Institute, Hardenbergstr. 32, 10623 Berlin, Germany · University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany +1

  60. Predicting Biased Human Decision-Making with Large Language Models in Conversational Settings

    Jan 16, 2026Stephen Pilli, Vivek NallurLarge Language Model DecisionsBiases

    University College Dublin · Dublin, Ireland