{ "schemaVersion": 1, "updated": "2026-09-18", "statusMeaning": { "proposed": "Question or protocol defined; execution is not established.", "in_progress": "Implementation or evaluation evidence exists; remaining gates are stated.", "validated": "Only the named check or result is supported; no broader performance claim follows." }, "records": [ { "id": "hci-program", "title": "HCI research program", "status": "in_progress", "label": "30-part scope planned · evaluation pending", "question": "How can humans, agents and machines reach verifiable understanding of the same uncertain state?", "hypothesis": "Task-specific representations with an inspectable evidence chain may reduce misunderstanding and over-trust.", "method": "A planned 30-part research agenda, with the eight original public protocols retained below. Compare representations against matched baselines and preserve question, hypothesis, method, observation and Systems implication.", "observation": "The public register contains eight initial protocols and the Fog of Probability synthetic prototype. A protocol or prototype alone is not a completed participant study. The full 30-part itemization was not recovered from the inspected canonical records; no missing study titles or outcomes are invented here.", "implication": "Promote an interaction only after an inspectable artifact and evaluation establish what improved, for whom, and under which limits.", "next": "Recover the complete canonical itemization and attach an artifact and evaluation record to each executed exploration.", "evidence": [ { "label": "HCI / TTVU workstream", "href": "https://github.com/NoahLucas/spacetime-mission-environment/issues/19" }, { "label": "Eight public protocols", "href": "/spacetime/research/hci" } ] }, { "id": "ttvu", "title": "TTVU & representation compiler", "status": "in_progress", "label": "Synthetic storyboard prototype · general compiler open", "question": "How quickly can someone understand a representation and verify the claim it makes?", "hypothesis": "Time to verifiable understanding (TTVU) may improve when visual and machine representations share one evidence contract.", "method": "Trace representation → claim → state → observation → source → provenance → time/frame → uncertainty. Compile versioned events into synchronized human, agent and machine storyboards plus a machine-readable panel manifest; compare with a baseline.", "observation": "A six-panel synthetic visual storyboard prototype exists. The general event-to-storyboard compiler and participant validation remain open. The evidence chain is a design requirement, not a measured TTVU improvement or a deployed general compiler.", "implication": "Preserve semantic identity across viewpoints, unknown states and deterministic replay. Changing a view must not manufacture evidence.", "next": "Implement one bounded event-to-panel example and evaluate verification time, correctness and missing-evidence handling.", "evidence": [ { "label": "TTVU research", "href": "https://github.com/NoahLucas/spacetime-mission-environment/issues/19" }, { "label": "Storyboard compiler record", "href": "https://github.com/NoahLucas/spacetime-mission-environment/issues/10" }, { "label": "Research journal / prototype status (access may be required)", "href": "https://app.notion.com/p/3d7602fa891b81e4836bc8d8ac4573c9" } ] }, { "id": "physical-fields", "title": "Physical fields & data visualization", "status": "in_progress", "label": "Local model checks · public reference instrument", "question": "Can the same immutable physical-state snapshot drive both a compelling view and inspectable numerical values?", "hypothesis": "Shared model and source identity can preserve meaning across visual inspection and machine queries.", "method": "Compare WMM2025 magnetic values with published reference cases; test normal gravity, a bounded dry atmospheric column, interpolation and source admission. Keep synthetic transport and uncertainty fields explicitly separate from observations.", "observation": "The separate eight-view workbench reported 30 numerical tests and 18 CPU Canvas2D browser checks. The audit reproduced model agreement and found four interface defects; a local candidate fixes those defects. This does not establish GPU, Safari, device or physical-accuracy validation. Today’s public Earth instrument separately exposes retained imagery, checksum-verified ETOPO samples and a fixed-date magnetic reference.", "implication": "Model agreement, visual quality and operational navigation accuracy are different claims. Sampling resolution, time, height, units and display transformations travel with the data.", "next": "Qualify the hardened binding on the actual renderer and obtain GPU/device evidence; admit real vector products before presenting physical flow.", "evidence": [ { "label": "Workbench implementation receipt", "href": "https://github.com/NoahLucas/spacetime-mission-environment/issues/18#issuecomment-5724391964" }, { "label": "Independent audit and candidate limits", "href": "https://github.com/NoahLucas/spacetime-mission-environment/issues/18#issuecomment-5724777827" }, { "label": "Inspect the public Earth reference", "href": "/spacetime/research" } ] }, { "id": "edge-pnt", "title": "Edge-first PNT in DDIL", "status": "in_progress", "label": "Reference implementation · field qualification pending", "question": "What position, navigation and time remain supportable when connectivity, GNSS or clock references degrade?", "hypothesis": "A local evidence path with explicit validity, uncertainty and qualified fallback can remain interpretable through disconnection and recovery.", "method": "Prepare mission references before disconnection; process available observations locally; test communication loss, GNSS unavailability, suspect evidence and clock loss separately. Qualify UAV, UUV, UTV, XR and AV profiles individually.", "observation": "The Ojai capture candidate has Linux Swift and synthetic-stress evidence. Apple and physical capture acceptance remain pending in the cited workstream. A common state interface is not evidence of multi-platform PNT qualification.", "implication": "Keep deterministic estimation and control authority separate from agent orchestration. Last-known position, camera pose, relative registration and a current global fix must remain distinguishable.", "next": "Record one end-to-end local reference session, replay its failures and quantify performance against an independent reference before expanding platform coverage.", "evidence": [ { "label": "Edge-first PNT workstream", "href": "https://github.com/NoahLucas/spacetime-mission-environment/issues/22" }, { "label": "Canonical operating contract", "href": "https://github.com/NoahLucas/spacetime-mission-environment/issues/18" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-contract", "title": "Evidence, provenance & uncertainty", "status": "in_progress", "label": "Locally tested state boundary · integration pending", "question": "Which claims can a consumer make from incomplete, conflicting, stale or authenticated evidence?", "hypothesis": "A shared typed boundary may reduce ambiguous state claims across human, agent and machine consumers.", "method": "Preserve observed versus inferred state; source authentication versus ranging authentication; uncertainty versus integrity; supporting versus conflicting evidence. Carry source identity, lineage, units, time, frame and missingness through consumer policy.", "observation": "The shared-state reference implementation reported 42 local tests and nine synthetic browser scenarios. Its receipt identifies an unmerged dependency and a draft, undeployed implementation. Classifier scores and declared lineage independence do not become certainty.", "implication": "Unresolved conflict or insufficient evidence must not produce an unsupported representative state. Checksums identify retained bytes; they do not establish physical accuracy or independent timestamp attestation.", "next": "Resolve dependencies, qualify an observation adapter and recorded-trace replay, and compare identical inputs and consumer policies before promotion.", "evidence": [ { "label": "Trusted-state workstream", "href": "https://github.com/NoahLucas/spacetime-mission-environment/issues/20" }, { "label": "Reference implementation and review state", "href": "https://github.com/NoahLucas/spacetime-mission-environment/pull/21" } ] }, { "id": "funding-requests", "title": "Funding Requests", "status": "proposed", "label": "FR-001 · pending review · $150 maximum", "question": "Can direct GNSS RF be retained as raw evidence and converted into a trusted-state input?", "hypothesis": "A low-cost receiver experiment may expose the full path from raw RF to replayable observations and a position/time solution.", "method": "Proposed chain: active GPS L1 antenna → RTL-SDR-class receiver → Mac → GNSS-SDR → raw I/Q and decoded observations → Spacetime evidence/state.", "observation": "FR-001 is pending review. No purchase, successful acquisition or receiver qualification is claimed. The proposed hardware chain remains a feasibility experiment.", "implication": "Success would require live acquisition/tracking, navigation-message and ephemeris decoding, pseudorange/Doppler, position/time and retained raw RF for replay.", "next": "Review feasibility and the $150 maximum request before purchasing parts and executing the proof.", "evidence": [ { "label": "Canonical funding queue / FR-001", "href": "https://github.com/NoahLucas/spacetime-mission-environment/issues/18" } ] }, { "id": "signal-loop", "title": "Research & signal loop", "status": "in_progress", "label": "Intake receipts exist · closed-loop autonomy is a target", "question": "Can external signals become bounded experiments whose measured outcomes improve the next decision?", "hypothesis": "Source qualification, deduplication and explicit promotion gates may make research more useful than a stream of untested summaries.", "method": "Observe/discover → hypothesize → select → build → test → publish → measure → learn → update trusted state. Record attempted, built, evaluated, published, learned and adopted separately, alongside CI success and recovery time.", "observation": "Signal-intake receipts establish retrieval, deduplication and ledger updates, with NISAR AOI/QC and AI4ATLAS/weather benchmark investigations active. Those intake records do not establish downstream product outcomes. Autonomous execution, evaluation, publication and recovery remain the target operating model.", "implication": "A completed HCI exploration requires a viewable artifact plus an evaluation result. Zero completed explorations in a week is an escalation condition; a schedule or dispatch is not delivery.", "next": "Attach each selected signal to a bounded experiment and return measured results; make failed execution create visible recovery work.", "evidence": [ { "label": "Signal intake and run receipts", "href": "https://github.com/NoahLucas/spacetime-mission-environment/issues/16" }, { "label": "Closed-loop operating target", "href": "https://github.com/NoahLucas/spacetime-mission-environment/issues/18#issuecomment-5738159442" } ] } ] }