Research

Researching how increasingly intelligent technology interacts with individuality, cognition, emotion and human agency.

Current research
R.01

Preserving Individuality in AI-Assisted Communication

"How can AI support communication without flattening personal voice and identity?"

Status: Active · Foundational

Informs: Galaxie

R.02

Representing Cognitive Workload Across Professional Contexts

"How can cognitive workload be represented across professions for use in human-adaptive systems?"

Status: Active · Scoping review + framework

R.03

Beyond Empathy: A Human-Adaptive Framework for AI Customer Support

"How should support systems adapt to emotion, interaction burden, context and escalation needs without over-assuming about the user?"

Status: Active · Framework + evaluation design

Informs: Defer

Emerging research direction
R.04

Human Control of Agentic Systems

"How can increasingly autonomous AI systems remain observable, governable and interruptible by humans?"

Status: Emerging research direction

Related experiment: SwarmSight

Research themes

Individuality

AI-assisted communication, expression, identity preservation

Human State Representation

Cognitive workload, uncertainty, interaction burden, context

Human-Adaptive Systems

Adaptive support, interaction policy, escalation, autonomy

Human Control

Agentic systems, oversight, intervention, governability

Research outputs
P.001Preserving Individuality in AI-Assisted CommunicationIn progress
P.002Representing Cognitive Workload Across Professional ContextsIn progress
P.003Beyond Empathy: A Human-Adaptive Framework for AI Customer SupportIn progress
E.001SwarmSight: Human Control of Agentic Systems experimentExperiment
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