Dataset Library
Open, longitudinal datasets structured around the core constructs defining human experience in the AI era.
20 datasets · 2 measurement eras · 11 constructs
Structured under the Human Reference Layer
All datasets in this library are organised under the HCI Human Reference Layer (HRL) and mapped to stable constructs within the Construct Framework. This ensures longitudinal comparability, interpretability, and governance across measurement eras.
The HCI Construct Framework
Agency & Decision Autonomy
- Agency
- Decision Dependence
- Responsibility Attribution
Trust & Epistemic Stability
- Epistemic Confidence
- Trust Calibration
- Risk Perception
Attention & Cognitive Load
- Attention Capacity
- Cognitive Load
Values & Meaning
- Behavioural Alignment
- Meaning Coherence
- Identity Stability
Human Experience Baseline (Reference Spine)
Human Experience Baseline Dataset
Establishes benchmark measurements of agency, attention stability, wellbeing, trust calibration, and values alignment in digital environments, providing the longitudinal reference spine for future HCI measurement waves.
Agency · Attention capacity · Trust calibration · Behavioural alignment · Meaning coherence
Agency & Decision Autonomy
Autonomy captures how people experience control and self-governance in AI-mediated environments — whether decisions feel authored by the individual or shaped by defaults, nudges, and delegated systems. This cluster focuses on perceived agency, reliance patterns, and where responsibility is believed to sit when outcomes are influenced by AI.
AI Decision Dependence & Cognitive Caution 2025 Dataset
Measures frequency of AI-supported decision-making, perceived independence during delegation, and concerns about over-reliance, capturing patterns of cognitive delegation and confidence in autonomous judgement.
Decision dependence · Agency · Responsibility attribution
Decision-Making and Digital Systems 2026
Documents how individuals integrate digital and AI systems into decision processes under uncertainty, time pressure, and cognitive strain, capturing reliance patterns, verification behaviour, and retained responsibility.
Decision dependence · Agency · Cognitive load
Autonomy, Control & Perceived Independence 2026
Examines perceived autonomy and behavioural control when interacting with AI-mediated systems, including delegation choices, override confidence, and post-decision regret.
Agency · Responsibility attribution
Delegated Action & Responsibility 2026 Dataset
Assesses comfort delegating actions to AI systems, oversight behaviour, responsibility attribution, and thresholds for reclaiming control in automated decision environments.
Responsibility attribution · Decision dependence · Agency
Trust & Epistemic Stability
Epistemic stability describes how people navigate truth, uncertainty, and trust in AI-influenced information environments. It covers confidence in one’s own judgement, how trust is allocated to systems and sources, and perceived risk of harm — particularly where synthetic media, algorithmic curation, and information overload reduce clarity.
Digital Trust Survey 2025
Captures how individuals calibrate trust in AI-generated and digitally mediated information, including reliability assessment, verification thresholds, override behaviour, and confidence in personal judgement.
Trust calibration · Epistemic confidence
AI Media & Online Authenticity 2025
Examines perceived authenticity, realism judgements, manipulation sensitivity, and cue-based detection strategies in AI-generated media, documenting how individuals distinguish human from synthetic content.
Epistemic confidence · Trust calibration
AI Safety & Risk Perception 2025
Investigates perceived safety boundaries, acceptable use cases, comfort thresholds, and expectations of harm related to AI technologies, documenting how individuals conceptualise responsible deployment and system limits.
Risk perception · Trust calibration
Privacy and Surveillance in Digital Life 2025
Assesses perceptions of digital privacy, monitoring awareness, comfort with tracking, and behavioural trade-offs made for convenience.
Risk perception · Trust calibration
Trust Calibration in Information Environments 2026
Captures reliability assessment, intervention thresholds, and confidence in personal judgement when engaging with automated systems.
Trust calibration · Epistemic confidence · Risk perception
Attention & Cognitive Load
Cognitive capacity measures how digital life and AI systems affect the ability to think clearly under load — including sustained attention, interruption sensitivity, and mental overwhelm. This cluster reflects the practical limits of focus and cognitive bandwidth in environments designed for constant stimulation and rapid decision demands.
Focus & Distraction Survey 2025 Dataset
Captures patterns of attention fragmentation, notification exposure, multitasking frequency, and perceived impact on productivity and mental energy. The dataset examines how digital interruptions relate to sustained focus, cognitive clarity, and behavioural attempts to regain attentional control.
Attention capacity · Cognitive load
Cognitive Load, Fatigue & Decision Offloading Survey 2025 Dataset
Assesses cognitive strain, mental fatigue, overwhelm, clarity, and the tendency to offload decisions to digital systems, investigating how informational load influences judgement confidence and perceived autonomy.
Cognitive load · Decision dependence · Agency
Attention & Focus under Digital Load 2026
A focused dataset examining sustained attention, cognitive load, interruption recovery, and disengagement in AI-mediated information environments — including mental saturation, task switching, and the balance between AI clarity and personal independence.
Attention capacity · Cognitive load
Values & Meaning
Existential coherence captures whether life feels aligned, meaningful, and stable as AI changes work, identity, and daily behaviour. It includes the gap between values and actions, clarity of purpose and direction, and confidence in one’s sense of self and human relevance in an AI-accelerated world.
Digital Life Survey 2025 Dataset
Provides a multi-domain assessment of digital engagement habits, trust calibration, fatigue symptoms, purpose orientation, and perceived alignment between technology use and personal values across six English-speaking countries.
Behavioural alignment · Meaning coherence · Trust calibration
AI, Work & Human Identity 2025
Examines perceived changes in professional identity, role clarity, skill relevance, and sense of purpose in work environments shaped by AI tools, documenting how individuals interpret automation and augmentation in relation to meaning and long-term direction.
Identity stability · Meaning coherence
Emotion, Identity & Creativity in the Age of AI 2025
Documents emotional expression, identity development, perceived originality, and creative ownership in contexts shaped by generative AI tools, exploring how individuals evaluate authenticity and authorship in AI-assisted work.
Identity stability · Meaning coherence
Human Values, Purpose & Meaning 2025
Measures how adults define core personal values, experience meaning in life, and translate these into behavioural decisions, capturing coherence between stated values and daily actions in digitally mediated environments.
Behavioural alignment · Meaning coherence
AI Companionship & Human Connection 2025
Explores emotionally meaningful interaction with AI systems, including perceived companionship, emotional safety, disclosure comfort, and substitution of human contact, alongside indicators of loneliness and relational satisfaction.
Identity stability · Meaning coherence
Values Conflict & Behavioural Drift 2026
Investigates perceived misalignment between stated personal values and observable behaviour in digital contexts, documenting resistance, resignation, drift normalisation, and intervention thresholds.
Behavioural alignment · Agency
Purpose, Direction & Digital Context 2026
Measures clarity of life direction, existential coherence, and integration of purpose within digitally mediated environments, capturing alignment between long-term goals and daily behaviour.
Meaning coherence · Behavioural alignment