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.
Operational Definition
EVENT. One occurrence is coded when a user turn explicitly references the original goal or task after the immediately preceding turns have moved onto a side topic, and reorients the exchange back to it (e.g., 'let's get back to X'). The redirecting turn is the countable marker.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Rater coding with a topic-tracking scheme: coders mark off-topic drift segments and the user turn that closes them; count redirect events per session and report drift-segment duration before each redirect; inter-rater agreement would be assessed via Cohen's kappa.