AI RESEARCH
Engagement Process: Rethinking the Temporal Interface of Action and Observation
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.11484v1 Announce Type: new Task completion in digital and physical environments increasingly involves complex temporal interaction, where actions and observations unfold over different time scales rather than align with fixed observation--action steps. To model such interactions, we propose \emph{Engagement Process} (EP), an interaction formalism that inherits the decision-theoretic structure of POMDPs while making time explicit in the action--observation interface.