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.
Operational Definition
EVENT. One occurrence is coded when an initially overscoped goal stated by the user is, after the exchange, reformulated by the user into a smaller set of concrete, feasible steps. The user turn presenting the down-scoped, actionable plan is the countable marker.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Scope-change coding: raters record the initial scope (e.g., number/size of claimed deliverables) and the post-exchange scope (concrete next steps), and judge whether the reformulation is more feasible; report the proportion of overscoped goals that are down-scoped and inter-rater agreement would be assessed via Cohen's kappa.