Cognitive Prostheses

Today's rapid advances in artificial intelligence present an unprecedented opportunity to augment the human mind with the help of technology. Our goal is to leverage insights from cognitive science to develop technologies that help humanity overcome its cognitive limitations and enable people to make better decisions, learn faster, become more productive, and achieve their goals.

We are currently working on a cognitive prosthesis for helping people achieve their goals on time. The basic idea is to align each action's immediate reward with its long-term value so as to make good decisions easier. We are working on instantiating this approach in a to-do list gamification app. Initial results suggest that this is a promising approach to helping people overcome procrastination.

Publications

1. Lieder, F., Chen, O., & Griffiths, T.L. (under review). Cognitive Prostheses for Goal Achievement. [Preprint]
2. Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T.L. (2016). Helping people make better decisions using optimal gamification. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pp. 2075-2080. [Article]