Decision-Making and Digital Systems 2026 (Dataset)
A de-identified open dataset (n=358) examining how digitally active adults experience decision-making, autonomy, confidence, and reliance when interacting with digital and AI-enabled systems in everyday life across six English-speaking countries.
Measures include decision clarity and confidence, perceived cognitive effort and overwhelm, reliance on digital and automated systems for thinking and decision support, perceived autonomy and epistemic confidence, self-reported change over time, and demographic variables across six English-speaking countries.
Part of the Human Clarity Institute’s Human–AI Experience Data Series.
Framework
HRL domain(s): Agency & Decision Autonomy, Trust & Epistemic Stability
Registry Construct Alignment: Decision dependence, Trust calibration, Responsibility attribution, Risk perception
Listed constructs reflect longitudinal, registry-mapped item alignment and do not represent the full thematic scope of this dataset.
DOI and Repository Links
This dataset is archived in GitHub, Zenodo, and Figshare for long-term preservation.
Citation
APA
Human Clarity Institute. (2026).
Decision-Making and Digital Systems 2026 (Dataset).
Human Clarity Institute.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18488985
BibTeX
@dataset{hci_decision_making_digital_systems_2026,
author = {Human Clarity Institute},
title = {Decision-Making and Digital Systems 2026 (Dataset)},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.18488985},
url = {https://humanclarityinstitute.com/datasets/decision-making-digital-systems-2026/},
license = {CC-BY-4.0}
}
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
You are free to share, adapt, and build upon this dataset for any purpose, including commercial use,
provided appropriate credit is given to the Human Clarity Institute.
Full licence text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/