Decoding Workload and Agreement From EEG During Spoken Dialogue With Conversational AI

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05825v1
• Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:59:25 GMT
• Title: Decoding Workload and Agreement From EEG During Spoken Dialogue With Conversational AI
• Authors: Lucija Mihić Zidar, Philipp Wicke, Praneel Bhatia, Rosa Lutz, Marius Klug, Thorsten O. Zander,
• Abstract summary: This paper investigates whether established EEG classifiers for mental workload and implicit agreement can be transferred to spoken human-AI dialogue.<n>We introduce two conversational paradigms - a Spelling Bee task and a sentence completion task- and an end-to-end pipeline for transcribing, annotating, and aligning word-level conversational events.
• Score: 4.8791534661065805
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Passive brain-computer interfaces offer a potential source of implicit feedback for alignment of large language models, but most mental state decoding has been done in controlled tasks. This paper investigates whether established EEG classifiers for mental workload and implicit agreement can be transferred to spoken human-AI dialogue. We introduce two conversational paradigms - a Spelling Bee task and a sentence completion task- and an end-to-end pipeline for transcribing, annotating, and aligning word-level conversational events with continuous EEG classifier output. In a pilot study, workload decoding showed interpretable trends during spoken interaction, supporting cross-paradigm transfer. For implicit agreement, we demonstrate continuous application and precise temporal alignment to conversational events, while identifying limitations related to construct transfer and asynchronous application of event-based classifiers. Overall, the results establish feasibility and constraints for integrating passive BCI signals into conversational AI systems.

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