Designing AI for human wellbeing and flourishing

We help organisations understand and design how AI systems affect human attention, behaviour, and mental & emotional health over time

Behavioural Impact Assessment

Evaluate how your AI system behaves with real users and how it shapes attention, behaviour, trust, and mental and emotional health over time.

Human-AI Interaction Design

Design prompts, flows, and interaction patterns that support clarity, appropriate trust, user autonomy, and healthy engagement.

Safeguards, Governance & Readiness

Define product safeguards, boundaries, and governance mechanisms that mitigate risks while supporting positive human outcomes.

AI systems can shape people in subtle and cumulative ways across contexts, user groups, and levels of vulnerability.

About HCRAI

HCRAI bridges three disciplines: behavioural science, human-computer interaction, and AI ethics and governance. 

Our work helps organisations translate human insight into product decisions, safeguards, and governance for AI systems used in the real world.

our approach

A structured approach to human-AI impact

We work from behaviour and context to analysis, design, and governance, to support better decisions around real-world human-AI interaction.

Context and Scope

Define the system, users, use cases, and organisational boundaries.


Human Impact Analysis

Understand how people use, interpret, rely on, or misunderstand the system across contexts, user groups, and levels of vulnerability.


Interaction and Safeguard Design

Design prompts, flows, boundaries, and safeguards that support safer and better use in practice.


Governance and Monitoring

Set oversight, accountability, testing and review processes as systems, contexts, and user behaviour evolve over time.


Research & Insights

Building AI Responsibly for Children: A Practical Framework for Product Teams



Designing AI Wellbeing Tools: Risks, Interaction Patterns and Governance



Contact Us

Tel:  +351 915 679 908

Tel: +44 79 38 52 1514

contact@hcrai.com