Studio 13 Research

Papers

The Studio 13 research corpus. Selected papers are public; the full program runs to more than thirty. Start with the overview if you want the whole picture in two pages.

Start here · Overview
Studio 13 Research — Overview
The field-intelligence program and the companion it built, in two pages. The fastest way to understand the whole.
§Public papers
Research Paper · Capability
Texture, Not Category
How Our Aria reads emotion by texture — tonal, somatic, relational — rather than by keyword, so it hears what older adults are actually saying.
Position Paper · Boundary
Why the Companion Is Not a Therapist
The line between companionship and therapy, and why respecting it takes architecture rather than a disclaimer.
Founder Essay · Origin
What My Grandson Was Taught About Emotion
Emotional intelligence as the ear that hears tone, the industry that captures children's emotional education, and where the research found its true audience.
§Forthcoming public papers
Foundational
The Field Intelligence Question
What we actually want from machine minds: the capacity to be changed by what one meets. The paper that opened the program.
Product Design
The Elder Companion
Designing for presence rather than performance — the seven literary companions and what each attends to.
Conversation Design
The Porch Problem
Why AI companions sound like therapists, and how to make them sound like friends.
Field Formation
Encounter, Not Deepening
Why mutual seeing produces what going deeper alone cannot.
Validation
The Companion Works
What validation across many sessions and three novels actually showed.
Literature Review
AI Companionship and Older Adults
Where the field stands on AI for elder loneliness, and where Studio 13 diverges from it.