{"id":248813,"date":"2026-05-18T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/ou-data-scientist-unveils-free-software-for-researching-human-ai-interactions\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:25:08","slug":"ou-data-scientist-unveils-free-software-for-researching-human-ai-interactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/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<p>NORMAN, Okla. \u2013 With artificial intelligence upending how people seek, interpret and act on information, efforts are underway to design AI systems that are equitable, efficient and inclusive.<\/p>\n<p>A University of Oklahoma data scientist has created a free research tool to facilitate this process.<\/p>\n<p>Called\u00a0ECHO \u2013\u00a0Evaluation of Chat, Human Behavior, and Outcomes \u2013\u00a0the open source, low-code platform enables scholars to design and run behavioral experiments involving conversational AI, Web search and human-AI interaction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur platform saves researchers time and money in front-end programming,\u201d said Jiqun Liu, an associate professor specializing in data science at the OU School of Library and Information Studies. Liu created ECHO at his Human-Computer Interaction and Recommendation (HCIR) lab with OU graduate student Nischal Dinesh and Ran Yu, a senior researcher at GESIS \u2013 Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a researcher wants to build a study that integrates an AI chatbot, they can install our platform and easily add components,\u201d Liu said. \u201cFor most social science studies, ECHO will be easy to implement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Appetite for analyses of human-AI interaction is growing, said Liu. Not long ago, keyword search engines were the dominant way people found information online. Today, conversational AI-powered \u201canswer engines\u201d are increasingly delivering data, changing how people acquire and use information.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers are still studying how these shifts influence learning, trust, and decision making. Studies incorporating human-AI interaction can help shed light on these developments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To use ECHO, researchers must first install the software onto their own computer. The code is available for free on GitHub, and a step-by-step video tutorial guides users through the setup process. Installation takes about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed, researchers can configure experimental workflows through an administrator dashboard,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ou.edu\/content\/news\/articles\/2026\/may\/free-software-for-researching-human-ai-interactions\">Source<\/a><\/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":248814,"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-248813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248815,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248813\/revisions\/248815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}