A reported change over time in how an individual user characterizes an AI system, moving from describing it as a fixed single-task tool toward describing it as a flexible multi-purpose working instrument. Concerns the user's stated framing, not the system's properties.
TREND. The user completes a short framing questionnaire at intervals (e.g. baseline, week 4, week 8) containing items contrasting 'fixed tool' vs 'flexible instrument' descriptors. The construct is the directional change in the framing-index score across timepoints for that user.
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Repeated 6-item framing questionnaire (fixed-tool vs flexible-instrument, 5-point bipolar) at >=3 timepoints; change scored as within-person slope; scale reliability reported via Cronbach's alpha per wave.
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