Scaffolding Human-AI Collaboration

Companion website for the research paper:

"Scaffolding Human-AI Collaboration: A Field Experiment on Behavioral Protocols and Cognitive Reframing"

Alex Farach, Alexia Cambon, Lev Tankelevitch, Connie Hsueh, Rebecca Janssen — Microsoft Corporation (2026)

About the study

A field experiment with 388 employees at Gap Inc. testing two interventions for human-AI collaboration:

• Behavioral scaffolding (Task A, pair-level): A structured "Create-Out-Loud" protocol requiring joint AI use
• Cognitive scaffolding (Task B, individual-level): Partnership training reframing AI as a thought partner

Both conditions had full access to Microsoft Copilot. The study tests how people use AI, not whether they have it.

About this site

An interactive presentation of the study's findings, built with React, TypeScript, Vite, and Tailwind CSS. All statistics and data visualizations reflect the final paper.

Development

npm install
npm run dev

Deployment

The site deploys to GitHub Pages automatically on push to main via the workflow in .github/workflows/deploy.yml.

Live site: https://microsoft.github.io/ai-mindset-experiment/