Team HCI

I'm an HCI researcher, and I keep running into the same problem: every claim has to be tested with real users. Two to three months of recruitment per study, another six months for the publication cycle, and very little room to discover — halfway through — that something basic about the design was off. Probe is a rehearsal stage for study design, powered by Claude Opus 4.7. You start with a one-sentence premise. Opus splits it into three sub-research-questions — mechanism, intervention, lived experience. Sonnet 4.6 surveys arXiv, ACM, and Semantic Scholar per angle. Opus then drafts three candidate study designs; you pick one, and Probe writes the actual artifacts: implementation plan, IRB memo, validation protocol, survey kit, diary kit. A simulated pilot runs twelve composite personas through the protocol — surfacing failure modes before recruitment. The final stage is an adversarial peer-review panel; Opus 4.7 then audits their disagreement and separates real conflicts from apparent ones.