The main challenge in studying cognition & designing effective tasks for children with learning disorders is creatingpersonalized & adaptive tasks in line with the current abilities & mood of the child. The current study confronts thischallenge by testing a new paradigm to access the current state of mind and adapting the tasks based on the current mood& abilities of the child. Children were given chess puzzles with various levels of difficulty (from just identifying thepieces, legal moves and eventually even capturing pieces with depth=1). while the children were performing the tasks thepupil-metric data (for cognitive load), facial expressions and the head pose were used to gauge the current-state and adaptthe puzzles accordingly. Further development of dynamic feedback and providing rewards for looking at the right squaresare also underway. custom software with off the shelf web-cameras were used as the current solutions in the market areprohibitively expensive for testing on large scale.

World Economic Forum report predicts that 35% of the skills needed to navigate the world of work will have changed by2020. By 2020, creativity will be the third most sought-after skill, behind complex problem solving and critical thinking.Creative skills are future-proof, in that they cannot be Automated. Art and creativity are essentially what makes us humanand this is being backed up by research. (Elaine Rumbol) How do you hone creativity? This seems to be an open question.The present study aims to build an architecture for AI agent(life-coach) that incorporates the latest research on creativityand guides the user based on the users personality traits, context, emotions, mood and cognitive load. The agent will detectthe users emotional valance & Motivational Intensity which in turn will influence the attention focus (Broaden the mind(for free floating ideas) or result in narrow focus (linear, step by step goal attainment)). Toward this aim, we plan to run aseries of tests for gathering user feedback. Design of the tests are underway.