Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

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.