Capturing Inner Experience At Scale: An AI Interviewer Co-Developed with the Founder of a Landmark Phenomenological Method
Subjective experience is central to psychological science, yet methods for studying it force a choice between depth and scale. Classical Experience sampling, as in ecological momentary assessments (EMA), captures experience as it occurs, but it confines participants to predetermined response formats that prescribe how experience is measured. Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) instead investigates specific momen...