Human–AI Interaction / Exploratory Research
Experimenting with Generative AI to Reflect
When AI guides reflection, who directs the experience?
Five exploratory investigations examine AI guidance through yoga, voice conversation, deliberate compliance and resistance, emotional reflection, and dialogue with a friend. As an undergraduate researcher in Jennifer Turns’s directed research group, Jana used self-observation to ask where useful guidance ends and self-direction begins.
Five investigations into AI guidance, reflection, embodied experience, and autonomy. Original project diagram.
Year
2025
Institution
University of Washington, Human Centered Design & Engineering
Jana’s role
Undergraduate researcher
Adviser / collaborators
Directed research group with Jennifer Turns
Following a voice, attending to a body
Pending · Yoga notebook / original activity photograph
What happens between an instruction and a sensation?
Pending · Voice transcript excerpt
Conversation as a reflective setting
Voice-based conversation became a setting for personal reflection, bringing an external response into a self-directed activity.
When does a response support reflection—and when does it redirect it?
Following, resisting, leaving it to chance
Deliberate compliance, resistance, and randomness provided three ways to respond to AI guidance.
What makes following a recommendation feel chosen?
Pending · Original prompt
Pending · Response + dated observation
Who gives an experience its meaning?
Pending · Redacted reflection notebook
Who determines the direction of a reflective exchange?
A third presence in a conversation
AI-mediated dialogue with a friend brought the question of autonomy into an interpersonal setting. What was disclosed about AI involvement matters to how the exchange is understood.
What responsibilities arise when AI enters communication between people?
Pending · Consented, anonymized dialogue excerpt
From guidance to self-direction
These are exploratory, self-observational investigations, not causal or population-level findings. Disclosure, consent, privacy, and the ethics of mediated conversation remain unresolved. Related questions about guidance and control later moved into physical interaction in Domesticated.
Documentation URL pending