Foundations
Research lineage
Lyotic does not claim to be the first adaptive AI design system. Generative interfaces, mixed initiative and mid-run approval already exist. Its contribution is narrower: the representation layer’s contract, its implementation, and evidence of what it adds.
What Lyotic builds on
| Work | What Lyotic takes |
|---|---|
| Mixed-initiative interaction (Horvitz, 1999) | When the system should act, ask or wait, weighed by cost of interruption |
| Types and levels of automation (Parasuraman, Sheridan, Wickens, 2000) | Automation differs per stage: acquisition, analysis, decision, action. Lyotic’s axes follow that split |
| Interface plasticity; SUPPLE | Interfaces that adapt to context while preserving usability |
| Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction (Amershi et al.) | Make clear what the system can do and how well; support efficient correction |
| Appropriate reliance (Lee & See) | Trust should match trustworthiness, not exceed it |
| Explanations and acceptance (Bansal et al.) | Explanations raise acceptance regardless of correctness: the basis of INV-20 |
| Cognitive forcing functions (Buçinca et al.) | Making people engage with evidence before accepting, at the right moments only |
| Plan-Then-Execute; Human-Agent Communication; Magentic-UI | Plans reviewed before execution; co-planning; action guards |
| Generative Interfaces for Language Models; DuetUI | Models producing interface structure; Lyotic constrains what it may claim |
| Affora | Agent-readable semantic structure, adopted as a base requirement |
| Agent-Integrated Software; EffectMatch | Case, authority and execution architecture; effect-matching verification. Not claimed as Lyotic’s own |
| WCAG 2.2 | The accessibility floor |
Claims Lyotic does not make
- That progressive disclosure is efficient for agents. It is a choice for people; agents read the full semantic structure their role allows.
- That the general Case–authority–execution architecture is new.
- That adaptation beats a good fixed interface. That is what evaluation is for.
What Lyotic is not
Systead is the first product built on Lyotic; it keeps business relationships across systems (“Different representations. Same reality.”). Lyotic represents that work to people. H.A.R.D. reviews design choices: purpose, alternatives, impact, implementation, evidence. Lyotic is the interaction system under review; H.A.R.D. asks why expand here, Lyotic specifies what state requires which representation and what it must preserve.