Projects
Independent research projects and explorations — studies, instruments and research-driven apps beyond the doctoral thesis.
01Independent
Independent research projects and explorations
AI/HCI
Human–AI Reliance in CHAt iNteractions
When do people stop trusting an unreliable AI? A controlled study of misinformation uptake in conversational learning
A research web app and controlled experiment showing that learners absorb an AI assistant's confident falsehoods at the same rate, no matter how unreliable it becomes — the 'calculator fallacy'.
Web Application (study instrument)2026
Design Research
Uncovering Needs and Frictions in Ordinary Lived Days
A gamified day-reconstruction instrument that surfaces everyday user issues through recognition rather than recall
Surfaces the small, adapted-to frictions of everyday life — the raw material of useful products — without asking people to remember them.
Web Application (study instrument)2026
Knowledge Graphs
Inspider Web ≈ Inspire Web
A weighted knowledge graph of 23,268 English verbs — every verb a phenomenon to borrow from
An explorable knowledge graph of English verbs that retrieves real-world phenomena as analogical inspiration for design ideas.
Web Application2026
AI/Design
Verb-Inspired Traversal from Issues to Solutions
Structured human–AI ideation from an everyday user issue to rendered product concepts
Carries one everyday user issue through problem statement, ideas and concepts to AI-rendered product images — and reveals an 'illusion of novelty'.
Web Application (study instrument)2026
AI/Privacy
Privacy-preserving AI financial advice
See what your financial data reveals to an AI — and what masking hides
A study instrument that measures the trade-off between the usefulness of AI financial advice and the privacy of the data behind it.
Web Application (study instrument)2026
In ProgressVR/Affective Computing
Graded VR stressor with synchronised physiological sensing
A virtual-reality buzz-wire game that turns up the pressure — and records how the body responds
A steady-hand VR game used as a graded stressor, with ECG/HRV, EDA, respiration and finger tremor recorded in sync — labelled data for modelling stress.
VR (Meta Quest Pro, PC VR)2026
In ProgressAI/Safety
Hybrid LLM safety filter & jailbreak study
How do people talk guarded language models into leaking — and how much does a safety filter help?
A research pipeline and game (VAULT) for studying LLM jailbreaks, with a hybrid safety filter compared across model providers.
Web Application + analysis pipeline2026
CompletedAI/Fairness
Identity substitution in LLM investment advice
When the financial facts run out, does a language model start advising on who you are?
A behavioural and mechanistic-interpretability study of LLM financial advisers — accepted at ACM ICAIF 2026.
Research study + web demo2026
CompletedFinance/Network Science
Systemic Correlation Fragility Score
Can the shape of the stock market's correlation network warn of a crash before the VIX does?
An early-warning score for market stress built from random-matrix, geometric and topological analysis of stock correlation networks — with an honest null result.
Research pipeline + Streamlit dashboard2026
ResearchAI/Design/VR
Form Layout with AI, Vision on Virtual Reality
Desktop VR App for Designing Hyper Personalized Products (HPP)
A desktop VR application that uses eye-tracking and AI to design Hyper Personalized Products. Your gaze shapes the design—the system captures visual preferences through VR, extracts color, texture, and shape features via AI, and generates nature-inspired, AI-crafted products.
Desktop VR Application2025 - Present
In ProgressAI/Affective Computing
Mock online intERview via Reactive Agentic Generative AI system for psychophysiological Evaluation of stress
LLM-driven mock panel interview platform for stress research
A reactive multi-agent LLM interview panel that runs a standardised online stress test and synchronises every event with physiological recordings.
Web Application (lab study platform)2026 - Present
AI/Personalization
AUM — Atomic User Model
An assistant that already knows how you like your answers to be
Builds a 116-facet Atomic User Model of a person's personality and uses it to infer, at chat time, how they would like an AI assistant to answer.
Web Application2026
AI/Research
Agentic AI for Designing Your problems through Abstraction
Curiosity-Driven Problem Design Tool with Four AI Agents and the AI3C Framework
Curiosity engine that takes designers from messy real-world situations to well-structured AI3C-formatted problem statements through Socratic dialogue, branching conversation trees, and synchronized round-based inquiry across four specialised AI agents.
Web Application2026 - Present
AI/Research
Agentic UX-law based Reasoning Architecture for AI-generated UI designs and deployable code
Turns Lo-fi Sketches and a Short Questionnaire into Hi-fi Website Designs and a Deployable React Codebase — with UX Laws as First-Class Constraints
Research prototype that lets a common user (neither designer nor developer) generate a high-fidelity website and a deployable React + Vite + Tailwind + shadcn/ui codebase from up to five lo-fi sketches and a 14-question intent questionnaire, governed by a UX knowledge graph and a dedicated UX-law enforcement agent.
Web Application2026 - Present
AI/Research
Collaborative Research Exchange with AI Mentors
AI-Powered Platform for Structured Research Paper Writing and Mentorship
Comprehensive educational platform that revolutionizes how students write research papers with guidance from mentors and AI-powered assistance—structured section-by-section writing, guided questions, mentor collaboration, and progress tracking.
Web Application2026
AI/Research
Prompt Architecture Wizard using Neural Intelligence
Agentic AI System that Transforms Raw Natural Language into Optimized, Structured Prompts for Maximum LLM Performance
PAWNI passes user input through a pipeline of 7 specialized AI agents to produce perfectly structured prompts in SAD (plain text) and POML (Prompt Orchestration Markup Language) formats, with a self-evolving Pattern File knowledge base.
Web Application2026
CompletedVR/HCI
Recall and Attention during Visual EnumeratioN in Virtual Reality
Investigating the Interplay of Attention and Memory in Complex Visual Enumeration
Immersive VR system with eye-tracking to study how humans enumerate complex visual scenes, revealing the cognitive limits of attention and memory.
VR Headsets with Eye-tracking2024 - 2025
AI/Design
FORMula-driven concept reFORGE Engine - Textual
Text-Conditioned Fine-tuned Diffusion AI Model for Product Concept Rendering
Advanced AI model that generates high-quality product concept renderings from textual descriptions and stylistic phrases using fine-tuned diffusion techniques.
Web Application2024 - Present
AI/Design
FORMula-driven concept reFORGE Engine - Image
Image-Conditioned Fine-tuned Diffusion AI Model for Product Concept Rendering
Advanced AI model that generates high-quality product concept renderings from reference images using fine-tuned diffusion techniques.
Web Application2024 - Present
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CompletedSustainability/AI
Sustainability Evaluation and Natural System Enhancement Intelligence
Web Application for Evaluating and Enhancing Product Sustainability
Comprehensive sustainability assessment platform that evaluates products across environmental, social, and economic dimensions while providing improvement recommendations.
Web Application2023 - 2024
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CompletedVR/Healthcare
Fore-Arm MOtor control and Tracking
Open-Source Virtual Reality Application for Target Achievement Control Evaluation of Upper Limb Motor Functions
Comprehensive VR rehabilitation platform designed to assess and improve upper limb motor functions through gamified target achievement exercises and precise movement tracking.
VR Headsets (Open Source)2022 - 2024
AI/UX Design
Structured Process for Advancing and Contextualizing User eXperience
Formalizing User Experience (UX) Design using a Conversational AI System
Groundbreaking research platform that formalizes UX Design as a distinct discipline through AI-powered guidelines, distinguishing it from UI design and establishing comprehensive best practices.
Web Application2023 - 2024
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