Guided path
How the Collaboration Became the Fieldsite
A guided path from AI-as-assistant assumptions toward the collaboration itself becoming the apparatus and fieldsite.
This path is designed for a first-time visitor who wants to understand the core research move. It follows the shift from using AI as assistance toward observing the collaboration itself as a research site and apparatus.
It should read as a compact essay path, not as a complete thesis argument.
- Stop 1 ARIA as collaborator, not tool
A public-safe reflection on the shift from using ARIA as an assistant toward treating the collaboration as part of the PhD fieldsite.
- Stop 2 Prompting as negotiation
Prompts as negotiated proposals, refusals, corrections, constraints, and asymmetries rather than one-way commands.
- Stop 3 “the relationship shaping the very apparatus that records it”
The apparatus node for the seed: the Hong/ARIA relationship shapes the capture, memory, evidence, and interface systems that record it.
- Stop 4 Labelled redacted presence
A privacy pattern approved in Chart 02: show that evidence exists, label why it is redacted, and avoid raw private exposure.
- Stop 5 Chart 02 seed revision
The accepted seed revision that turns the Fable review report into implementation decisions for the PhD website.