Summary
This Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) project supports research and education focused on trust in human-artificial intelligence (AI) collaboration during early-stage engineering design. In open-ended, creative design contexts, trust governs how designers engage with and rely on AI-generated suggestions, yet this reliance is often implicit, context-dependent, and difficult to capture by traditional acceptance-based or post-hoc survey measures. This project advances fundamental knowledge by modeling trust as a continuous, time-varying latent state variable grounded in designers’
