HandS Lab is a research and educational outreach laboratory
We study human choice, attention, learning, creativity, and professional practice, including how working with AI changes them.
We build open knowledge, standards, and tools that expand human capabilities while preserving human autonomy and authorship.
AI should expand human capabilities and preserve human agency.
Launched October 2026 · Registered NGO in Ukraine · Open materials
AI changes the pace of tasks, the way thoughts are formulated, decisions are made, learning happens, content is created, and help is sought.
You ask AI for a draft, and a minute later you are editing its opinion, not yours.
HandS Lab explores the possibilities of systems alongside the consequences of their presence in human experience. Does the person remain the author of the goal? Do they understand the limits of working with the system? Can they change direction, pause, or opt out?
Human Agency by Design is an approach in which human agency is built into the system’s architecture, usage rules, and distribution of responsibility.
Research, educational outreach, and practical prototyping form a single cycle: we ask a question, try it in practice, open knowledge, and turn insights into educational formats, frameworks, and standards.
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We study agency, attention, thinking, learning, creativity, assistance, and professional responsibility, including how working with AI changes them.
We distinguish between assumptions, hypotheses, observations, and confirmed findings. We publish materials that can be verified, discussed, and refined.
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We host lectures, webinars, educational programs, and meetings about the practice of working with AI, its opportunities, limitations, and consequences for people, teams, and professional communities.
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We build prototypes and environments through which we try out hypotheses in specific situations where people work with AI.
Every project begins with a research question. We describe its scenario, status, system role, and human involvement in the process.
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Purpose, boundaries, and final decisions remain with the person. Their involvement is not reduced to confirming a pre-packaged system recommendation.
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Working with the system should leave the person with greater understanding, attentiveness, and agency in their own setting. We track what skills, questions, and action patterns a person carries away after working with the system.
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Work with the system can be paused, modified, or ended. Its boundaries, consequences, and available alternatives should be clear.
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The system states its own role before work begins, so the user knows where AI is operating, what it is doing, and what should not be expected of it. Its designers are accountable for the accuracy of that statement.
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Specific individuals and organizations are accountable for research, design, deployment, data handling, and addressing issues.
HandS Lab develops educational formats for individuals, teams, and professional communities working with AI in learning, creativity, teamwork, and daily tasks.
At the core of these formats are practical questions: what is appropriate to delegate to the system, how to verify responses, how to keep one’s own writing style, and how to maintain understanding in the process of automation.
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Meetings on agency, attention, learning, creativity, professional boundaries, and the ethics of care.
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Sequential work on a specific issue: from personal habits to team collaboration, learning, or creative practice.
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A space for professional exchange, collaborative learning, and mindful exploration of one’s own experience alongside AI.
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Recordings, practical tools, and curated materials to revisit at your own pace.
Preparing upcoming events. Leave your email address to receive the program once confirmed.
We opened in October 2026. Here is what you can already read on the site.
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We are preparing the first webinars and lectures. The program will be announced once confirmed.
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We are looking for partners with a question worth testing together. Scenario, boundaries, and data are agreed before work starts.
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We add research notes, standards, and event recordings as they become ready.
Services, platforms, and prototypes built around specific questions about how people and AI interact. Each project page states the question, the scenario, the current status, and the role of the person.
A pilot starts with a question important to both the partner and HandS Lab.
Together, we define the scenario, agree on roles, boundaries, and data management, conduct a targeted work cycle, and collect observations.
Pilot outcomes demonstrate what occurred under specific conditions: what supported the work, what needs refinement, and what next steps make sense.
Findings apply to the agreed conditions. Broader claims require further verification.
Four ways to join: bring your expertise, bring your organization, become a member, or fund the work.
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Contribute to methodology, evaluation, expert review, or joint publications.
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Discuss an educational program, workflow research, or a focused pilot.
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Join the organization as a member if you share its mission and want to take part in its work. Terms are set by the bylaws.
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Independent research, open materials, and educational programs run on support. We state the purpose of every contribution up front and report on how it was used.
Questions we test. Observations we refine. Decisions we adjust. Events and materials you can join.
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