 Gilbert’s role options let users control how involved the assistant is. Whether they needed help with scheduling or live meeting feedback, users could choose the level of support that fit their team’s needs and comfort level.

An AI assistant designed to support communication and emotional clarity in remote teams

Gilbert AI helps remote student teams build trust, communicate clearly, and manage shared work while keeping the human element intact. The idea came out of our own experience as HCI grad students trying to collaborate online. We wanted to see if an AI could act not just as a task manager, but as a teammate. One that supports psychological safety and helps people show up with more clarity and less friction.

I contributed to the research, design, and prototyping. We focused on use cases like softening feedback, nudging task updates, and summarizing meetings with an awareness of tone. Users could choose how Gilbert engaged with them through role and personality settings. These choices gave people control over how much access the assistant had and how it communicated.

This project deepened my interest in human-AI interaction. I became more focused on how people structure communication with systems and how systems reflect those intentions back. We weren’t trying to replace human connection. We were designing technology that could support it, with care and transparency.