Advancing Smart Home Awareness—A Conceptual Computational Modelling Framework for the Execution of Daily Activities of People with Alzheimer’s Disease

Utilizing context-aware tools in smart homes (SH) helps to incorporate higher quality interaction paradigms between the house and specific groups of users such as people with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). One method of delivering these interaction paradigms acceptably and efficiently is through context processing the behavior of the residents within the SH. Predicting human behavior and uncertain events is crucial in the prevention of upcoming missteps and confusion when people with AD perform their daily activities. Modelling human behavior and mental states using cognitive architectures produces computational models capable of replicating real use case scenarios. In this way, SHs can reinforce the execution of daily activities effectively once they acquire adequate awareness about the missteps, interruptions, memory problems, and unpredictable events that can arise during the daily life of a person living with cognitive deterioration. This paper presents a conceptual computational framework for the modelling of daily living activities of people with AD and their progression through different stages of AD. Simulations and initial results demonstrate that it is feasible to effectively estimate and predict common errors and behaviors in the execution of daily activities under specific assessment tests.

Development of a structural diagram of a cognitive transport system

Развитие технологий проектирования интеллектуальных систем, использующих алгоритмы схожие с мыслительной обработкой мозга, стимулируют поиски новых подходов для создания искусственного интеллекта человеческого уровня. Для выполнения столь сложных задач используются когнитивные архитектуры, представляя собой следующий уровень развития разнородных процессов интеллектуализации. В данной статье под практической призмой интеллектуализации транспортных систем исследуется процесс развития современных когнитивных архитектур. Предметом исследования является разработка структурной схемы когнитивной транспортной системы. Для выполнения этой задачи исследуются новые парадигмы когнитивного управления, расширяющие подходы к вычислительному интеллекту. Уточняется понятие когнитивной архитектуры. Исследуются современные работы в области каталогизации когнитивных архитектур. Выявляются критерии оценки когнитивных архитектур. Подробно рассматриваются и анализируются когнитивные архитектуры 4D / RCS, ALLIANCE, LIDA, использующиеся в современных системах управления беспилотным транспортом и роботами. Выявляются положительные обобщенные факторы, направленные на эффективность когнитивной архитектуры. Разрабатывается структурная схема когнитивной транспортной системы, основные подсистемы которой включают когнитивное управление транспортом, когнитивные транспортные коммуникации, когнитивные транспортные средства. Описывается структура слоев. Отмечаются преимущества, в том числе бионинспирированность, модульность, объектно-ориентированность, параллелизм, возможность использования интеллектуальных методов обучения. The development of technologies for the design of intelligent systems using algorithms similar to mental processing of the brain stimulates the search for new approaches to create artificial intelligence at the human level. To perform such complex tasks, cognitive architectures are used, representing the next level of development of heterogeneous intellectualization processes. In this article, under the practical prism of intellectualization of transport systems, the process of development of modern cognitive architectures is investigated. The subject of the research is the development of a structural diagram of the cognitive transport system. To accomplish this task, new paradigms of cognitive control are being investigated, expanding approaches to computational intelligence. The concept of cognitive architecture is clarified. Examines current work in the field of cataloging cognitive architectures. Criteria for assessing cognitive architectures are identified. Cognitive architectures 4D / RCS, ALLIANCE, LIDA, used in modern control systems for unmanned vehicles and robots, are considered and analyzed in detail. We identify positive generalized factors aimed at the effectiveness of cognitive architecture. A structural diagram of the cognitive transport system is being developed, the main subsystems of which include cognitive transport control, cognitive transport communications, and cognitive vehicles. The structure of the layers is described. The advantages are noted, including bioninspiration, modularity, object-orientation, parallelism, the possibility of using intelligent teaching methods.

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Performing two tasks concurrently typically leads to performance costs. Historically, multitasking costs have been assumed to reflect fundamental constraints of cognitive architectures. A new perspective proposes that multitasking costs reflect information sharing between constituent tasks; shared information gains representational efficiency, at the expense of multitasking capability. We test this theory by determining whether increasing cross-task information harms multitasking. 48 participants performed multitasks where they mapped keypresses to four shapes. In a subsequent statistical learning task, these shapes then formed pairs that were predictive or non-predictive of an upcoming target judgement. When participants again responded to these shapes in the multitasking context, performance was poorer when the shape pair had been predictive of target outcomes in the learning phase, relative to non-predictive. Thus, associating common information to shape pairings transferred to negatively impact multitasking performance, providing the first causal evidence for the shared representational account of multitasking performance.

Cybonto: Towards Human Cognitive Digital Twins for Cybersecurity (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED Cyber defense is reactive and slow. On average, the time-to-remedy is hundreds of times larger than the time-to-compromise. In response, Digital Twins (DTs) and particularly Human Digital Twins (HDTs) offer the capability of running massive simulations across multiple knowledge domains. Simulated results offer insights into adversaries' behaviors and tactics, resulting in better proactive cyber-defense strategies. For the first time, this paper solidifies the vision of DTs and HDTs for cybersecurity via the Cybonto conceptual framework proposal. The paper also contributes the Cybonto ontology to guide the developments of such HDTs. In particular, the ontology formally documented 108 constructs and thousands of cognitive-related paths based on 20 time-tested psychology theories. Finally, the paper applied 20 network centrality algorithms in ranking the constructs by their cognitive influences. The top 10 constructs call for extensions of current digital cognitive architectures such as: explicitly implementing more refined structures of Long-term Memory and Perception, putting a stronger focus on influential non-cognitive constructs such as Arousal, and creating new capabilities for simulating, reasoning about, and selecting circumstances.

Articulating the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Collective Intelligence: A Transactive Systems Framework

Human society faces increasingly complex problems that require coordinated collective action. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds the potential to bring together the knowledge and associated action needed to find solutions at scale. In order to unleash the potential of human and AI systems, we need to understand the core functions of collective intelligence. To this end, we describe a socio-cognitive architecture that conceptualizes how boundedly rational individuals coordinate their cognitive resources and diverse goals to accomplish joint action. Our transactive systems framework articulates the inter-member processes underlying the emergence of collective memory, attention, and reasoning, which are fundamental to intelligence in any system. Much like the cognitive architectures that have guided the development of artificial intelligence, our transactive systems framework holds the potential to be formalized in computational terms to deepen our understanding of collective intelligence and pinpoint roles that AI can play in enhancing it.

Cybonto: Towards Human Cognitive Digital Twins for Cybersecurity

Cyber defense is reactive and slow. On average, the time-to-remedy is hundreds of times larger than the time-to-compromise. In response, Digital Twins (DTs) and particularly Human Digital Twins (HDTs) offer the capability of running massive simulations across multiple knowledge domains. Simulated results offer insights into adversaries' behaviors and tactics, resulting in better proactive cyber-defense strategies. For the first time, this paper solidifies the vision of DTs and HDTs for cybersecurity via the Cybonto conceptual framework proposal. The paper also contributes the Cybonto ontology to guide the developments of such HDTs. In particular, the ontology formally documented 108 constructs and thousands of cognitive-related paths based on 20 time-tested psychology theories. Finally, the paper applied 20 network centrality algorithms in ranking the constructs by their cognitive influences. The top 10 constructs call for extensions of current digital cognitive architectures such as: explicitly implementing more refined structures of Long-term Memory and Perception, putting a stronger focus on influential non-cognitive constructs such as Arousal, and creating new capabilities for simulating, reasoning about, and selecting circumstances.

Cybonto: Towards Human Cognitive Digital Twins for Cybersecurity

Cyber defense is reactive and slow. On average, the time-to-remedy is hundreds of times larger than the time-to-compromise. In response to the expanding ever-more-complex threat landscape, Digital Twins (DTs) and particularly Human Digital Twins (HDTs) offer the capability of running massive simulations across multiple knowledge domains. Simulated results may offer insights into adversaries' behaviors and tactics, resulting in better proactive cyber-defense strategies. For the first time, this paper solidifies the vision of DTs and HDTs for cybersecurity via the Cybonto conceptual framework proposal. The paper also contributes the Cybonto ontology, formally documenting 108 constructs and thousands of cognitive-related paths based on 20 time-tested psychology theories. Finally, the paper applied 20 network centrality algorithms in analyzing the 108 constructs. The identified top 10 constructs call for extensions of current digital cognitive architectures in preparation for the DT future.

Protocol for a Mediated Long-Term Experiment with a Social Robot

One major challenge faced by human-robot interaction (HRI) researchers is replicating and extending new findings, to better understand how short, constrained laboratory manipulations might translate to real-world scenarios. Since interactions with social robots are novel and exciting for many people, one particular concern is the extent to which people's behavioural and emotional engagement with robots might develop from initial interactions with a robot, when a robot's novelty is especially salient, and be sustained over time. The aim of this paper is to introduce a research protocol for a mediated long-term online experiment for testing the extent to which social robots’ cognitive architectures can elicit emotionally rich disclosures and expressions from people to identify their needs and emotional states over time. Moreover, this protocol introduces experimental methods for investigating people's perceptions of a social robot in their natural settings during prolonged and regular interactions, and evaluating how novelty effects on human-robot interactions change over time.