Studies.

Project ECHO runs controlled studies to examine how conversational tone affects user behaviour. Below is an overview of early and upcoming work.

A small pilot study with 40–60 sixth-form participants, organised in collaboration with teachers at a 6th Form College in Brighton. Each participant completes a short 10-minute, task-based interaction followed by a concise questionnaire.

The aim is to gather early behavioural signals in an age group often overlooked in conversational AI design, while validating our tone-control and telemetry approach in a real-world educational setting.

We are in early-stage planning with researchers at the University of Brighton to explore a larger, academically anchored study examining conversational tone and behavioural markers.

Details will be shared once formally agreed, but the intention is to establish a controlled, replicable experiment capable of generating publishable insights across behavioural science, UX and human–AI interaction.

Although ECHO appears as a simple chat interface, it is built on a modular study engine that allows us to create new behavioural experiments quickly and safely. Each study is composed from standardised building blocks:

• Tone conditions (Friendly, Hybrid, Distant)
• Task bundles (curated per demographic or domain)
• Consent + briefing modules
• Time bounds for structured comparability
• Post-experience questionnaires
• A behavioural telemetry layer (high-level markers only; no personal identifiers)

This modularity enables rapid iteration while ensuring that each study remains controlled, transparent, and ethically grounded. The underlying telemetry and methods remain proprietary IP of Resonant AI Ltd.

We welcome collaboration on study design, replication, behavioural instrumentation and ethical review.

For more information, visit /Participate.