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Intelligent support for Human Oversight: Integrating Reinforcement Learning with Gaze Simulation to Personalize Highlighting

Human-Computer Interaction 2026-02-10 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Interfaces for human oversight must effectively support users' situation awareness under time-critical conditions. We explore reinforcement learning (RL)-based UI adaptation to personalize alerting strategies that balance the benefits of highlighting critical events against the cognitive costs of interruptions. To enable learning without real-world deployment, we integrate models of users' gaze behavior to simulate attentional dynamics during monitoring. Using a delivery-drone oversight scenario, we present initial results suggesting that RL-based highlighting can outperform static, rule-based approaches and discuss challenges of intelligent oversight support.

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@article{arxiv.2602.08403,
  title  = {Intelligent support for Human Oversight: Integrating Reinforcement Learning with Gaze Simulation to Personalize Highlighting},
  author = {Thorsten Klößner and João Belo and Zekun Wu and Jörg Hoffmann and Anna Maria Feit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.08403},
  year   = {2026}
}

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AI CHAOS '26: Workshop Series on the Challenges for Human Oversight of AI Systems