Voice
When does an agent feel present?
How do timing, interruption, tone, and turn-taking change an agent from a tool you command into something you can think alongside?
Research
We are starting with questions, not conclusions. This page is the map for what Omo wants to investigate and how that work will eventually be shared.
01 / Questions
What we want to understand
These are directions for inquiry, not claims that the work is complete.
Space
Can place replace the menu?
Could rooms, distance, movement, and orientation make complex agent systems easier to understand than tabs, lists, and chat threads?
Agency
What should remain local?
Which interactions become more private, resilient, and immediate when perception and inference happen on the hardware around us?
02 / Environment
Why Minecraft is on the map
Minecraft turns abstract questions about agents into visible, shared situations. An agent has a position, limited perception, tools, consequences, and other people nearby. That makes the world useful for thinking about more than task completion: how an agent remembers a place, explains an action, recovers from a mistake, takes a spoken instruction, or earns enough trust to remain present.
Presence, not just performance
Study whether timing, movement, attention, and voice make an agent legible as a participant in a shared world.
Memory with a location
Explore how places, objects, and changes to the world can make an agent's memory observable instead of hidden in a transcript.
Cooperation under uncertainty
Ask how an agent should clarify intent, communicate limits, and recover when a long sequence of actions stops matching the world.
03 / Method
How a question becomes research
Frame a question
Define the human behavior or interaction we want to understand—not a feature we want to justify.
Build the smallest environment
Create a focused prototype that makes the question observable in use.
Use it in the world
Document what feels natural, what breaks, and where our assumptions were wrong.
Share what we learn
Document the prototype, method, failures, and conclusions so the work can be challenged and extended.
04 / Work log
Progress will live here
No experiments to report yet
The log starts when testing starts.
Our conceptual notes are available now. Once we begin testing a question, this space will hold dated records of what we tried, what changed, and what we learned. Until then, it stays honestly empty.