Digital Life 2025 Dataset

Name: HCI Digital Life Survey 2025
Creator: Human Clarity Institute
Published: 2025-10-21
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

De-identified open dataset of 1,003 participants from the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.

Measures digital behaviour, fatigue, focus, trust, and values alignment.

This dataset underpins multiple HCI reports.

Framework

HRL domain(s): Attention & Cognitive Load

Registry Construct Alignment: Attention capacity

Listed constructs reflect longitudinal, registry-mapped item alignment and do not represent the full thematic scope of this dataset.

DOI and Repository Links

Zenodo:

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GitHub:

Citation

APA

Human Clarity Institute (2025). Digital Life Dataset. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17393880

BibTeX

@dataset{hci_ai_human_2025,
  author    = {Human Clarity Institute},
  title     = {Digital Life 2025 Dataset},
  year      = {2025},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.17393880},
  url       = {https://humanclarityinstitute.com/datasets/digital-life-2025/},
  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, even commercially, provided appropriate credit is given to the Human Clarity Institute.

Full licence text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

View the Data Summary (Digital Trust) & Key Findings →

View the Data Summary (Digital Fatigue & Energy) & Key Findings →

Study Methodology

This dataset forms part of the Human Clarity Institute’s Human–AI Experience research programme, examining how people navigate trust, authenticity, credibility, and uncertainty in digitally mediated environments shaped by AI systems, online platforms, and rapidly circulating information. The study uses a cross-sectional online survey design and focuses on descriptive patterns in how people judge whether digital information is real, reliable, and trustworthy.

Data were collected on 10 September 2025 via the Prolific research platform from adults across English-speaking countries. Participants provided explicit informed consent for anonymised data publication as part of HCI’s open research programme.

Sampling & participants

Clean dataset: 1,003 valid responses
Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand
Eligibility: Adults (18+) fluent in English
Recruitment platform: Prolific

Study limitations

The survey uses a non-probability convenience sample and is not nationally representative.
Results are based on self-reported responses and reflect perceived experiences.
The study uses a cross-sectional design, capturing responses at a single point in time.
The dataset is descriptive and exploratory and does not support causal inference.