AUGMANITAI Compendium — Wave 1 SKOS Scheme
SKOS ConceptScheme for the 104-term Wave 1 release of the AUGMANITAI Compendium documenting AI-human interaction phenomena.
General Phenomenology
Top-level topic cluster grouping 36 narrower concepts under 'General Phenomenology'.
Humor Affect
Top-level topic cluster grouping 68 narrower concepts under 'Humor Affect'.
Reciprocal Humor Escalation
A self-reinforcing humorous exchange between a user and an AI system in which each party's playful turn prompts a further playful turn, lowering perceived tension. Distinguished from a single joke by its turn-to-turn escalation.
Loop Laugh
Loop-Lachen
Humor-Framed Correction
A corrective AI response that frames a needed change to the user's input or assumption in a light, humorous register; a pattern in which the user's reported acceptance of the correction is observed to be higher than for an equivalent plain correction. Distinguished from a plain correction by its humorous framing.
Nudge Laugh
Schubs-Lachen
Delayed Humor Recognition
A delayed humorous reaction in which the user first processes an AI output's literal meaning and only afterward perceives it as funny, often laughing at their own delayed comprehension. Distinguished from immediate humor by the lag between exposure and amusement.
Backward Laugh
Rückwärts-Lachen
Input-Attribution Realization
A realization by the user that an unsatisfactory AI output stemmed from an unclear or underspecified prompt rather than from a model error, prompting the user to revise the input. Distinguished from generic insight by its attribution of shortfall to one's own input.
Adjustment Aha
Anpassungs-Aha
Everyday Insight
An insight arising from AI interaction that the user reports as changing how they perceive an everyday phenomenon, such as a new perspective, an unexpected connection, or a useful reinterpretation. Distinguished from in-task problem-solving by its carry-over into ordinary life.
The Everyday Insight
Rhetorical-Register Discrimination Ability
An individual user's graded ability to identify the rhetorical register of an AI output, for example whether it is serious, ironic, neutral, or exaggerated. Distinguished from comprehension of content by its focus on tone, and it varies across users.
The Rhetorical Tone Detector
Deliberate Incoherent Prompting
A deliberately incoherent, heterogeneous prompt assembled by the user so that the AI system produces unexpected or creative combinations from the disparate elements. Distinguished from an ordinary prompt by its intentional internal inconsistency.
Surprise Salad
Überraschungs-Salat
Tension-Release Humor
A targeted use of humor within an interaction intended to release built-up tension and restore the user's capacity to keep working. Distinguished from incidental humor by its deployment at a point of friction or stall.
Humor Hook
Humor-Haken
Positive Affect Spike
A brief, unexpected moment of positive affect during an interaction that the user reports as releasing energy or lifting engagement. Distinguished from sustained mood by its short, punctate character.
Joy Jolt
Freude-Impuls
Humor Cascade
A self-reinforcing sequence of humorous reactions across consecutive turns that produces a sense of lightness and can dislodge a cognitive block. Distinguished from a single humorous exchange by its escalating chain of three or more reactions.
Giggle Chain
Kicher-Kette
Motivation Restoration
A short interaction intended to restore the user's motivation and positive mood after a dip. Distinguished from ongoing encouragement by its brief, bounded, restorative character.
Joy Fix
Freude-Fix
Pause Power
The user's practice of deliberately inserting a pause between receiving an AI output and sending the next input, in order to avoid impulsive replies and improve the quality of the following prompt. Distinguished from incidental delay by its intentional, regulatory character.
Pause-Power
Algorithmic Intuition
An experienced user's implicit, practice-acquired sense for which kind of input tends to yield which kind of result, applied without deliberate analysis each time. Distinguished from explicit prompting knowledge by being tacit and predictive rather than reasoned step by step.
Non-Frustrated Error Recovery
An AI error that the user consciously accepts and treats as a learning signal, responding with quick correction and continuation rather than annoyance. Distinguished from an unremarked error by the user's explicit non-frustrated, corrective response.
Oops Moment
Hups-Moment
Day Highlight
A user's deliberate act of marking a positive moment from the day, often with AI support, to consolidate it emotionally. Distinguished from passive recall by the explicit selection and recording of the moment.
Tages-Highlight
Minimal Calming Cue
A small verbal cue from the AI that elicits a disproportionately large sense of calm in the user. Distinguished from extended de-escalation by its minimal linguistic footprint relative to its calming effect.
Serenity Spark
Ruhe-Funke
Playful Correction
An AI error correction delivered in a playful tone that preserves the user's willingness to learn rather than provoking defensiveness. Distinguished from a neutral correction by its playful register and its effect on receptiveness.
Fun Correct
Spaß-Korrektur
Progress Reflection
A moment in which achieved progress is reflected back to the user, with the aim of strengthening their sense of self-efficacy. Distinguished from generic praise by its specific reference to concrete progress already made.
Pride Pulse
Stolz-Impuls
Elevated Positive-Affect Passage
A heightened affective state of connection, joy, or meaning that a user reports during an interaction. Distinguished from a brief affect spike by being a sustained, graded condition rather than a single moment.
Heart High
Herzens-Hoch
Error Composure
A user's disposition to register AI or task errors with composure because the learning value of the error is clearly apparent. Distinguished from a single calm reaction by being a graded, trait-like tendency across errors.
Learn Smile
Lern-Lächeln
Serendipitous Finding
An unsought finding that the user did not set out to obtain but recognizes as valuable once it appears during interaction. Distinguished from a sought answer by its incidental, unplanned origin.
Discovery Ding
Entdeckungs-Ding
Motivation Recovery
A targeted restoration of the user's motivation following frustration or exhaustion during an interaction. Distinguished from general encouragement by its placement after an explicit motivational low and its restorative intent.
Motivation Mend
Motivations-Reparatur
Pace-Reduction Mode
A regulating interaction mode characterised by reduced pace, sentence rhythm, and complexity in the AI's turns; a pattern in which the user's reported perceived tempo of the exchange is observed to be lower. Distinguished from distraction by being a slowing of the exchange rather than a topic shift.
Calm Wave
Ruhe-Welle
State Gratitude Appraisal
A reflective state in which the user consciously notices positive aspects of an experience and anchors them emotionally, often prompted by the interaction. Distinguished from a fleeting good feeling by its deliberate, reflective appraisal.
Gratitude Glow
Dankbarkeits-Leuchten
Productive Reframe
A creative change of direction in the interaction that initially disorients the user but then yields a new and better quality of output. Distinguished from an unproductive tangent by its eventual gain in output quality.
Twist Dance
Twist-Tanz
Emotional Overload Reset
A deliberate act of resetting emotional overload so the user can re-engage with their own needs. Distinguished from ongoing self-soothing by being a discrete, marked break that re-orients the user after overload.
Heart Reset
Herzens-Reset
Habitual Daily Integration
A habitual, recurring division of labor in which a user routinely incorporates an AI system into everyday tasks, such that the pairing becomes a settled part of the daily workflow rather than an occasional consultation.
Daily Duo
Tages-Duo
Calm Shift
A discrete, user-recognized transition during an AI-assisted session from an agitated, problem-focused mode into a calmer, more reflective one, marked at the point where the interaction's tone and pace visibly shift.
Ruhe-Wechsel
Felt-Coherence State
A self-reported moment of strong felt coherence during interaction, in which prior internal tension eases and the user reports a sense of things fitting together. The construct refers to the user's subjective state, not to any property of the AI.
Harmony Hug
Harmonie-Umarmung
Momentary Optimism Appraisal
A transient elevated-affect appraisal during interaction in which the user weighs perceived possibilities as larger than perceived risks. It denotes the user's momentary optimistic stance toward options surfaced in the exchange.
Excitement Bubble
Begeisterungs-Blase
Positive Pivot
A reformulation move in which a stated problem is recast into one or more actionable options. It denotes the observable act of converting a problem framing into a choice set within the dialogue.
Positiver Drehpunkt
No-Stress Swap
An act of replacing an overwhelming task specification with a more realistic, smaller-scope alternative during an AI-assisted exchange, observable as a deliberate substitution of the task under discussion.
Stress-Tausch
Gratitude Turn
A turn in which a user's framing shifts from focusing on what is lacking to acknowledging what is valued, observable as an explicit appreciation statement within the dialogue.
Dankbarkeits-Dreh
Divergent Ideation Burst
A bounded divergent-generation episode in which the dialogue deliberately prioritizes quantity of ideas over quality, with selection and evaluation deferred to a later phase. It denotes an ideation burst rather than an evaluative exchange.
Idea Rain
Ideen-Regen
Relaxation Edit
A revision act applied to a text or message with the explicit aim of lowering its perceived pressure, harshness, or demand level while preserving its informational content.
Entspannungs-Überarbeitung
Deliberate Slow Restart
A deliberate restart move in which a conversation or reasoning thread is returned to an earlier point to be re-begun more slowly and explicitly, observable as an intentional back-up and re-entry in the dialogue.
Calm Rewind
Ruhiger Rücklauf
Calm Reset
A brief pause and re-centering taken after an intense stretch of AI-assisted work, allowing attention to recover before the next task. It denotes a short, in-rhythm micro-break distinct from extended rest.
Ruhe-Reset
Goal-Match Acknowledgment
A point in an exchange at which the user registers shared satisfaction because the delivered output, the original intention, and the result align. It denotes a user-marked success acknowledgment within the dialogue.
High-Five Moment
High-Five-Moment
Aesthetic-Formulation Pleasure
A brief, low-intensity pleasure a user reports when an AI produces a notably elegant, apt, or aesthetically pleasing formulation. The construct refers to the user's momentary aesthetic-appreciation state, not to any emotion of the system.
The Syntax Smile
Gesture Language
The overall modality by which humans communicate with embodied AI systems through gestures, including hand signals, posture, and movement that the system detects and interprets. It names a communication channel rather than a single bounded event.
The Gesture Language
Vigilance Rhythm
A paced verification practice in which a user checks AI output at deliberate intervals rather than monitoring continuously, on the premise that spaced focused review sustains attention quality better than unbroken vigilance across long interactions.
The Vigilance Rhythm
Der Aufmerksamkeits-Rhythmus
Brief Activating Prompt
A very short, precise prompt that produces an immediate effect on the user's motivation, focus, or readiness to decide, providing starting impetus rather than substantive depth.
Quick Kick
Quick-Kick
Tone-Appropriateness Query
A brief meta-query that probes the emotional, social, or cultural fit of an output, separate from its factual content. It denotes an explicit request to appraise tone or appropriateness rather than correctness.
Vibe Check
Vibe-Check
Optional Creative Prompt
A light creative prompt or suggestion offered without any obligation to act on it, functioning as an optional spark rather than a directive within the exchange.
Inspiration Breeze
Inspirations-Hauch
Mid-Task Micro-Correction
A brief, precise intervention that brings an output back on course without interrupting the overall working flow, observable as a short steering correction inserted mid-task.
Correction Kick
Korrektur-Kick
Low-Friction Interaction
A condition of low-friction collaboration in which an AI-assisted task proceeds with few corrections, clarifications, or breakdowns. It denotes a graded smoothness of the working exchange rather than a single moment.
Smooth Sail
Ruhige Fahrt
Specific Gratitude Reference
A single, concrete point of focus that makes gratitude specific and tangible, observable as one explicitly named object of appreciation within the exchange.
Gratitude Drop
Dankbarkeits-Tropfen
Collaborative Phrasing Refinement
A collaborative, iterative search for the single formulation that precisely fits meaning, tone, and context, defined by repeated refinement of candidate wordings until convergence on one expression.
Word Hunt
Wort-Jagd
Relaxation Breath
A brief AI-guided breathing or attention exercise intended to lower stress or ease a transition between cognitive states, observable as a discrete guided micro-intervention within the session.
Entspannungs-Atem
Supportive Warmth Style
An emotionally supportive interaction style that conveys safety, belonging, and acceptance without forcing problem-solving. It denotes a graded stylistic quality of the exchange as perceived by the user.
Feel-Good Warm
Wohlfühl-Wärme
Gentle Layer
An added emotional or linguistic layer that buffers harshness and makes communication more tolerable without distorting the underlying content. It denotes a graded softening property of a message relative to its plain form.
Sanfte Schicht
Gentle Nudge
A minimal reminder or correction that provides orientation without exerting pressure, observable as a brief, low-intensity prompt that redirects without using demand language.
Sanfter Schubs
Error Normalization Stance
A user's working stance toward errors in which mistakes are treated as ordinary, expected by-products of productive work rather than as non-successes, lowering the threshold for surfacing and correcting them during AI-assisted tasks.
Mistake Friend
Fehler-Freund
Low-Friction Topic Re-Entry
A discrete resumption in which a user returns to a previously interrupted or misunderstood topic without visible tension or self-reproach, picking the thread back up smoothly within an AI dialogue.
Chill Comeback
Entspanntes Zurückkommen
Adaptive Continuity
A graded condition in which a user incorporates adjustments, corrections, or scope changes during a task while sustaining task momentum, so that revisions do not break the ongoing work rhythm of an AI-assisted session.
Flex Flow
Flexibler Flow
Drift Fix
A deliberate corrective move in which a user redirects a conversation that has wandered off back toward its core goal, re-anchoring the exchange to the original task within an AI dialogue.
Abdrift-Korrektur
Post-Failure Affect Recovery
A rapid affective recovery in which a user's negative reaction following a unsuccessful attempt subsides quickly and the user re-engages with the task within an AI-assisted session.
Bounce Back
Zurückfedern
Brief Positive-Affect Lift
A brief mood lift produced by an AI exchange that raises a user's momentary positive affect without causing distraction or exaggerated elation, leaving task focus intact.
Smile Boost
Lächel-Boost
Disproportionate Small Utility
A small, everyday AI intervention whose practical usefulness is disproportionately large relative to the minimal effort or input it required, observed in routine tasks.
Mini Magic
Mini-Magie
Unobtrusive Assistance Mode
A graded mode of AI use in which the system functions as an unobtrusive support to the user's work rhythm, contributing when prompted without overriding or steering the activity.
Flow Friend
Flow-Freund
Sufficiency Acceptance State
A stable condition of inner calm during or after AI-assisted work in which the user experiences no pressure to further optimize, accepting the current result as sufficient.
Contentment Zone
Zufriedenheits-Zone
End-of-Day Positive Closure
A positive emotional closure at the end of a work day, supported by an AI exchange, that rounds off the day's activity and helps the user consolidate or integrate what was done.
End-of-Day High
Tagesabschluss-Hoch
Reset Noise
A deliberate injection of unstructured or disordered input intended to break out of an entrenched line of thinking; structure is reintroduced only in a subsequent step after the fixation is loosened.
Reset-Rauschen
Activation Impulse
An activating impulse from an AI exchange that releases energy for action without overwhelming the user; it is brief, clear, and oriented toward taking the next step.
Motivation Fire
Motivations-Feuer
Deliberate Restart
A clear restart undertaken when a user's thinking or the dialogue has become tangled, in which the user breaks off the snarled line and re-opens the task from a fresh starting point.
Reset Ruck
Reset-Ruck
Morning Orientation Routine
A structuring, positive start to the day created by a short AI interaction that helps a user organize and orient the day's tasks at its outset.
Morning Magic
Morgen-Magie
Conversational Afterimage
The aftereffect of an intensive AI session in which a user later carries over formulations, thinking structures, or argumentation patterns from the dialogue into their everyday communication, often without awareness of the source.
The Conversational Afterimage
Indexical Memory
A longitudinal shift of the remembering function from retaining content itself toward retaining where and how the content can be retrieved through AI, reflecting a change in how a person manages personal knowledge under sustained AI use.
Capability-Limit Encounter
The moment a user encounters the limits of an AI system: the system cannot solve the task, returns incorrect information, or exposes a comprehension boundary, giving the user direct evidence of what the system cannot do.
The Wall Check
Sudden Comprehension Event
An abrupt transition from diffuse uncertainty to a clearly structured mental representation, frequently prompted by a precise restatement of the user's own thoughts by the AI.
Clarity Click
Klarheits-Klick
Relaxed Return
A gentle re-connection to a topic after overload, distraction, or a break, in which the user resumes work without self-blame or pressure, easing back into the task.
Entspannter Rückweg
Low-Pressure Encouragement
A small, friendly affirmation from the AI that the user reports as a brief lift in energy or motivation, without creating performance pressure or implying an obligation to perform.
Energy Kiss
Energie-Kuss
Optimism Opener
A reframing that shifts the user's perspective toward opportunities and possible courses of action without denying or minimizing the existing problems.
Optimismus-Öffner
Frustration-to-Openness Shift
A mental turn from frustration toward constructive openness, in which a user moves from a blocked, irritated stance to a receptive, solution-oriented one during an AI exchange.
Light Swing
Licht-Schwenk
Soft Landing
The scaling-down of overreaching ideas into realistic, implementable steps, in which an AI exchange helps a user convert an oversized aim into a feasible sequence of actions.
Sanfte Landung
Tension-to-Ease Shift
A transition from tension to ease brought about by small positive cues in an AI exchange, in which the user's strained state gives way to a lighter, more relaxed one.
Grin Shift
Grinsen-Wechsel
Lightness Lift
The targeted reduction of a user's felt heaviness through linguistic or perspective-based relief, in which an AI exchange deliberately reframes or lightens the framing of a burdensome matter.
Leichtigkeits-Lift
Pattern Sharpening
A longitudinal effect in which regular AI interaction is associated with improvement in a user's ability to recognize patterns in data, texts, or arguments, such that sustained use coincides with gains in the person's own analytic pattern detection.
The Pattern Sharpening
Calibrated Trust
A graded user disposition in which the degree of acceptance granted to an AI output is scaled to its stakes: high-consequence outputs receive more independent verification, routine outputs receive proportionally lighter checking. Trust varies by context rather than being uniformly extended or withheld.
The Calibrated Trust
Das Kalibrierte Vertrauen
Synthetic Spotting
A discrete user judgement that a given piece of content was produced by an AI system, inferred from stylistic regularities, characteristic phrasing, or content-level cues. The referent is the act of attribution, not the correctness of that attribution.
The Synthetic Spotting
AI Abstention Zone
A deliberately maintained boundary - spatial, temporal, or topical - within which a person excludes AI assistance. The referent is a standing, self-imposed restriction on the scope of AI use rather than a one-off refusal.
The KI-Free Zone
Narrative Divergence Prompt
A use episode in which a person enlists an AI system to generate unexpected narrative turns or alternative storylines for a creative or persuasive artefact such as a story, pitch, or argument. The referent is the request-and-use episode, not a property of the AI.
The Plot Twist Partner
Animal-Care Query
A use episode in which a person queries an AI system for information about animal care - feeding, behaviour, preventive health, or species-appropriate husbandry. The referent is a topically defined everyday information request.
The Pet Lookup
Workflow Reversion
A reversion episode in which a person returns to a previously used AI workflow after a newer alternative did not deliver the intended result. The referent is the act of reverting, reflecting that an established procedure outperformed a newer one for that task.
The Vintage Loop
Novel-Perspective Surfacing
A use episode in which an AI system surfaces a perspective on a familiar topic that the user reports not having considered before. The referent is the discovery event of a previously unconsidered viewpoint during interaction.
The Hidden Angle Finder
Duplicate Notice
A discrete recognition act in which a user identifies an AI response as substantively repeating an earlier response - reworded but identical in core content. The referent is the user's recognition of redundancy, not the redundancy itself.
The Duplicate Notice
Role-Aware Input
A prompt in which the user frames the request through an explicit social role - for example 'as a parent I need...' or 'in my capacity as...'. The referent is the role-marked formulation of an individual input.
The Role-Aware Input
Accent Persistence
The degree to which structural features of a user's first language - word order, punctuation conventions, and phrasing patterns - remain detectable in their written AI inputs composed in a second language. The referent is the relative strength of cross-linguistic transfer in writing.
The Accent Persistence
Emergent Coordination
An occurrence in a multi-agent system of a coordination pattern that was not explicitly specified, arising from the interaction of components rather than from any single component's design. The referent is the observed unspecified coordinated behaviour.
The Emergent Coordination
Augmanitai
A superordinate framework term for the deliberate, productive collaboration between humans and AI in everyday contexts, viewed from the human side. It blends 'augmentation' with a coined 'humanitai' root and, unlike 'artificial intelligence', foregrounds the human's experience and agency rather than the machine.
Integrated Operator
A user mode in which a person no longer treats AI as a separate tool but moves fluidly between their own thinking and AI assistance without a distinct switching moment. The referent is an advanced, relatively stable working state characterised by low perceived separation between human and AI activity.
The Integrated Operator
Cross-Domain Synthesis
An output in which an AI-assisted user integrates knowledge from several distinct disciplines into a single interdisciplinary result. The referent is an instance of cross-domain synthesis produced with on-demand access to domain knowledge.
Poly-Categorical Mesh
Post-Affirmation Advocacy
An episode in which a user, after an affirming AI interaction, becomes more willing to advance an idea to other people. The referent is the subsequent real-world advocacy act, with the prior AI exchange serving as an initial sounding board.
The Echo Courage
Output Asymmetry
The relationship in which the effort needed to produce a result falls substantially under AI assistance while the quantity or quality of the result is maintained or increased. The referent is the changed ratio of input effort to output yield.
Forward Assessment
An utterance that attempts to anticipate how the human-AI relationship will develop while explicitly acknowledging the uncertainty of any such forecast. The referent is the hedged, future-oriented assessment act; the surrounding lexicon documents the present rather than predicting it.
The Forward Assessment
Tangential-Output Serendipity
An episode in which an off-target or tangential AI output - content not directly matching the query - triggers an unanticipated association or idea connection in the user. The referent is the serendipitous association event arising from output 'noise'.
The Scatter Spark
Positive Surprise
An AI response that exceeds the user's prior expectations in quality, depth, or perspective. The referent is the discrete expectation-exceeding response event, which is associated with an increase in the user's trust in the collaboration.
The Positive Surprise
Differential Gratitude Expression
The pattern in which some users express gratitude toward an AI more freely than toward people, attributed to the absence of social-evaluation concern in the AI exchange. The referent is the relative difference in expressed gratitude between AI-directed and human-directed communication.
The Gratitude Paradox
Seasonal User
A user whose AI-use intensity rises and falls over time with life phase, project load, or season, alternating intensive daily periods with extended pauses. The referent is the longitudinal, non-linear pattern of usage intensity for an individual.
The Seasonal User
Source Curiosity
A user's move to trace the origin or grounding of an AI-generated statement - asking where a claim comes from or on what it is based. The referent is the discrete provenance-seeking act during interaction.
The Source Curiosity
Die Quellen-Neugier
Meal-Planning Query
A brief AI query made for an everyday food decision, such as what to cook from available ingredients or what side dish fits a meal. The referent is a low-effort, topically defined household information request.
The Dinner Shortcut
Inquiry Chain Cascade
An exploration episode in which one AI question leads to a chain of follow-up questions that draws the user progressively deeper into a topic, analogous to a 'Wikipedia hole' but driven by AI dialogue. The referent is the extended, self-propagating inquiry episode.
The Wiki Wormhole
Balance Filter
A standing self-regulation strategy for keeping AI use proportionate to non-digital activity through fixed times, rules, or routines, so that AI supplements rather than overtakes daily life. The referent is the maintained regulatory arrangement, not a single instance of restraint.
The Balance Filter
Companion Pattern
A standing usage mode in which a person incorporates AI assistance into daily routines as a steady accompaniment for thinking, drafting, and exploration, operating alongside rather than in place of their own reflection. The referent is the co-present, habitual mode of use.
The Companion Pattern
Das Begleiter-Muster