Affective Tools for Thought: Towards Shared Attention and Affective Reorienting in AI-Supported Thinking

Yifu Liu, Raffaele Andrea Buono, Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze

Current Tools for Thought (TfTs) treat affect as either friction that slows cognitive progress or a signal to optimise it. Drawing on enactive cognitive science, we argue that affe…