Research
Long-form frameworks, essays, and original intellectual property exploring how humans learn, think, and keep their edge alongside intelligent systems.
Frameworks
Cognitive Agency
Preserving human judgment, initiative, and ownership of thinking as intelligent systems take on more of the work.
Read frameworkPurposeful Friction
Why the right amount of difficulty — deliberately designed — produces durable learning and better decisions.
Read frameworkThe AI Tax
The hidden, compounding costs of delegating cognition: skill atrophy, verification overhead, and eroded trust.
Read frameworkHuman Adaptation
How individuals and organizations restructure habits, roles, and skills to stay capable as AI reshapes work.
Read frameworkDurable Learning
Designing learning that survives contact with AI assistance — knowledge that persists when the tool is gone.
Read frameworkHuman-AI Collaboration
Patterns for dividing labor between people and models that amplify judgment instead of replacing it.
Read frameworkActive studies
All studies- Recruiting
Purposeful Friction Design Framework (PFDF) Pilot
Session 1 (~25 min): surveys and a critical-analysis writing task. Session 2 (~15 min, complete when ready): retention and transfer checks. You will be randomly assigned to one of three AI conditions.
- Recruiting
Human-AI Collaboration Baseline Study
Help us understand how AI tools affect human judgment, revision patterns, and final written output — a 15-minute research session with optional AI assistance.
Recent artifacts
Repository- Instrument
PFDF Agency & Offloading Scales
Seven-point Likert items for agency and post-task offloading.
- Codebook
PFDF Coding Codebook
1–4 rubric for argument, evidence, and recommendation quality.
- Protocol
PFDF Session Protocol
Three-arm PFDF pilot protocol with Session 1 and Session 2 tasks.
Institutional repository
Study protocols, survey instruments, prompts, and findings — 5 published artifacts from THE HCLAB research program.
Recurring themes
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