A research project at the intersection of applied linguistics, learning sciences, and AI — building a rehearsal environment in which Japanese language learners practice the cultural reading of hierarchy, silence, and indirection that current Large Language Models cannot themselves perform.
The CogMirror Agent is the dissertation work of Yukiko Takahashi, doctoral candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at Indiana State University. The project introduces a Cognitive Mirroring Framework: an architecture that translates pedagogical logic — the intuition teachers use when they correct a student's tone, posture, or hesitation — into AI-driven non-verbal perturbations such as strategic silences, micro-expressions, and hierarchy cues.
Japanese is the testbed because its high-context, kuuki o yomu (reading the air) social logic exposes the failure mode of socially blind LLMs more sharply than any other major language. The architecture is engineered as an equity tool — VR-lite rather than full-VR hardware — so that resource-limited institutions and first-generation learners can use it on the consumer hardware they already own.
Funding: submitted to the Indiana State University Research Committee; in review at NSF.
Two private tools live behind this domain. Each calls the Anthropic API directly from your browser; conversation history and any application data persist only in your local browser.
Strategy, drafting, pitch refinement, and per-school application tracking across the eighteen-institution California search.
Dissertation pressure-testing, job-talk rehearsal, mock interview, and 日本語モード conversation. Live video + voice supported.