{"id":215908,"date":"2026-05-18T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/ou-data-scientist-unveils-free-software-for-researching-human-ai-interactions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:55:12","slug":"ou-data-scientist-unveils-free-software-for-researching-human-ai-interactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/ou-data-scientist-unveils-free-software-for-researching-human-ai-interactions\/","title":{"rendered":"OU Data Scientist Unveils Free Software for Researching Human-AI Interactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ou.edu\/content\/news\/articles\/2026\/may\/free-software-for-researching-human-ai-interactions\">OU Data Scientist Unveils Free Software for Researching Human-AI Interactions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ou.edu\/content\/news\/articles\/2026\/may\/free-software-for-researching-human-ai-interactions\">http:\/\/ou.edu\/content\/news\/articles\/2026\/may\/free-software-for-researching-human-ai-interactions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 16:44:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"ou.edu\">ou.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A University of Oklahoma data scientist, Jiqun Liu, has developed a free research tool called ECHO to help design AI systems that are equitable, efficient, and inclusive.<\/li>\n<li>ECHO (Evaluation of Chat, Human Behavior, and Outcomes) is an open-source, low-code platform designed to facilitate behavioral experiments involving conversational AI, web search, and human-AI interaction.<\/li>\n<li>Liu&#8217;s platform is aimed at reducing the front-end programming workload for researchers, allowing them to easily integrate AI chatbot and other components into their studies.<\/li>\n<li>The ECHO platform is available for free on GitHub and includes a step-by-step video tutorial, with installation taking about 20 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Researchers using ECHO can configure experimental workflows with the help of an administrator dashboard, and participants can interact through a web-based interface.<\/li>\n<li>ECHO aims to promote studies that analyze human-AI interactions to better understand how they influence learning, trust, and decision-making.<\/li>\n<li>Liu\u2019s research extends to various projects, including investigations on information retention during AI chatbot interactions and tests on AI tools improving information access related to intimate partner violence.<\/li>\n<li>Liu hopes that the free availability of ECHO will encourage more researchers to include AI-human interaction designs in their work, fostering &#8220;healthy friction&#8221; in AI system design and evaluation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OU Data Scientist Unveils Free Software for Researching Human-AI Interactions http:\/\/ou.edu\/content\/news\/articles\/2026\/may\/free-software-for-researching-human-ai-interactions Publish Date: 2026-05-18 16:44:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ou.edu\/content\/dam\/news\/images\/articles\/2026\/may\/ECHO.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215910,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215908\/revisions\/215910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}