Case Study Archive
This Archive will contains Task Force Members'reports and 'work-in-progress 'examples of care studies in which they arre involved.
If you would like to place within this archive a report or preliminary example of a case study within the framework of the Task Group, please send an email to p.humphreys@lse.ac.uk (Patricik Humphreys, Task force Convenor) identifing the content that you would like to place in this archive : either as a file attached to your email)or link to iURL tha contains the the content material that you would like to pllace in this archive., together with a short description the content (1- 2 sentences) for indexing purposes.
If you would like to place within this archive a report or preliminary example of a case study within the framework of the Task Group, please send an email to p.humphreys@lse.ac.uk (Patricik Humphreys, Task force Convenor) identifing the content that you would like to place in this archive : either as a file attached to your email)or link to iURL tha contains the the content material that you would like to pllace in this archive., together with a short description the content (1- 2 sentences) for indexing purposes.
1. Anam Cara support for sustainability of young persons' decisions in challenging contexts
Authors:Jyotika Bedi* and Patrick Humphreys**
*Kinetic Potential Explorers, India;
**Psychology and Behavioural Science Department, London School of Economics, UK
Email for correspondance: p.humphreys@lse.ac.uk
Abstract
This qualitative case study explores how Indian youth learn to say "No" and sustain self-love in challenging contexts.
Coming from diverse urban schools and colleges across India, participants told how they engaged in activities that sustain effective personal decision making, positive affirmation and self love while learning to say No" in a particular context of their own choosing.
The case study investigates how outcomes of "saying No" were sustained over time and how effective support mechanisms could help youths uphold their decisions as life contexts changed. All participants established and benefitted from interacting with Anam Caras (Soul Friends).
The benefits identified here included: Supportive Anam Cara relationships as safety nets; Setting boundaries: asserting self-love through limits; Positive affirmation: replacing rumination with self-compassion; “No” as a new beginning: bouncing forward into opportunities; The Anam Cara as a psychological anchor; Internalising the Anam Cara voice; The Anam Cara and identity reconstruction; Sustainability through repetition and reflection.
The concluding section of this paper, describe show the results gained from this case study open up practical opportunities for developments predicated on "bouncing forward".
Keywords: Sustainable decision support; Aman Cara ontology, Positive regard, Indian young people
Authors:Jyotika Bedi* and Patrick Humphreys**
*Kinetic Potential Explorers, India;
**Psychology and Behavioural Science Department, London School of Economics, UK
Email for correspondance: p.humphreys@lse.ac.uk
Abstract
This qualitative case study explores how Indian youth learn to say "No" and sustain self-love in challenging contexts.
Coming from diverse urban schools and colleges across India, participants told how they engaged in activities that sustain effective personal decision making, positive affirmation and self love while learning to say No" in a particular context of their own choosing.
The case study investigates how outcomes of "saying No" were sustained over time and how effective support mechanisms could help youths uphold their decisions as life contexts changed. All participants established and benefitted from interacting with Anam Caras (Soul Friends).
The benefits identified here included: Supportive Anam Cara relationships as safety nets; Setting boundaries: asserting self-love through limits; Positive affirmation: replacing rumination with self-compassion; “No” as a new beginning: bouncing forward into opportunities; The Anam Cara as a psychological anchor; Internalising the Anam Cara voice; The Anam Cara and identity reconstruction; Sustainability through repetition and reflection.
The concluding section of this paper, describe show the results gained from this case study open up practical opportunities for developments predicated on "bouncing forward".
Keywords: Sustainable decision support; Aman Cara ontology, Positive regard, Indian young people
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2. Case Study: Reclaiming Discernment: A Situated Paradigm for Human-Centered
Decision Support and Learning
Author: John Hegarty, IPAG Business School, Paris
This paper introduces the Situated Discernment Paradigm (SDP) as the foundation of a
design science research program that addresses five interlocking crises in business
education, decision-making research, and decision support system design—crises that are
civilizational, methodological, pedagogical, epistemological, and anthropological. At their
root lies the displacement of discernment as a core human capacity—replaced by
procedural rationality, optimization, and fragmented expertise.
SDP re-centers the discerning subject in relation to others, engaged in the
apprehension and realization of value across six registers of participation (from cognitive
to societal) and seven moments of value engagement (from originating value to
performance). These intersect in the Field of Discernment—the shared site of attention,
understanding, judgment, and commitment. We work within a philosophical tradition that
deepens inquiry rather than foreclosing it, and affirm discernment not as an add-on to
decision-making but as its very condition of possibility.
Our theoretical contributions include: (1) naming the field of discernment; (2)
articulating the implicit precepts of an ethics of participation; and (3) recovering
discernment as the grounding of responsible action. Methodologically, we contribute: (1)
the Field of Discernment Matrix as a meta–context-based insight generation (CBIG) tool
for locating insight; (2) a typology of CBIG tools to fuel the fire of thinking; and
(3) Appropriateness Assessment Indicators, comprising Key Situation Indicators (KSIs)
for contextual fit and Key Relationship Indicators (KRIs) for relational tact.
Our design science contributions span theory, method, and practice: from the
architectural integration of CBIG tools to scaffold insight and learning, to role-based, AIenhanced
enactments of discernment, to reflective essays and multi-agent dialogue. While
this paper draws on a single classroom illustration, Appendix B provides transferable
guidelines for adapting SDP to diverse contexts. We invite others to join us in reclaiming
Decision Support and Learning
Author: John Hegarty, IPAG Business School, Paris
This paper introduces the Situated Discernment Paradigm (SDP) as the foundation of a
design science research program that addresses five interlocking crises in business
education, decision-making research, and decision support system design—crises that are
civilizational, methodological, pedagogical, epistemological, and anthropological. At their
root lies the displacement of discernment as a core human capacity—replaced by
procedural rationality, optimization, and fragmented expertise.
SDP re-centers the discerning subject in relation to others, engaged in the
apprehension and realization of value across six registers of participation (from cognitive
to societal) and seven moments of value engagement (from originating value to
performance). These intersect in the Field of Discernment—the shared site of attention,
understanding, judgment, and commitment. We work within a philosophical tradition that
deepens inquiry rather than foreclosing it, and affirm discernment not as an add-on to
decision-making but as its very condition of possibility.
Our theoretical contributions include: (1) naming the field of discernment; (2)
articulating the implicit precepts of an ethics of participation; and (3) recovering
discernment as the grounding of responsible action. Methodologically, we contribute: (1)
the Field of Discernment Matrix as a meta–context-based insight generation (CBIG) tool
for locating insight; (2) a typology of CBIG tools to fuel the fire of thinking; and
(3) Appropriateness Assessment Indicators, comprising Key Situation Indicators (KSIs)
for contextual fit and Key Relationship Indicators (KRIs) for relational tact.
Our design science contributions span theory, method, and practice: from the
architectural integration of CBIG tools to scaffold insight and learning, to role-based, AIenhanced
enactments of discernment, to reflective essays and multi-agent dialogue. While
this paper draws on a single classroom illustration, Appendix B provides transferable
guidelines for adapting SDP to diverse contexts. We invite others to join us in reclaiming
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3. Case Study: Tech sector initiative to address sustainability, e-waste and social value
Authors: Freddie Quek and Paul Finnis, Co-Directors, TheNextPath Device Consortium
According to the UN, “The same rights (to communicate) that people have offline must also be protected online”. Today 10% of UK Households (2.8m) do not have a home computer representing between 3 million and 5 million individuals with no access.
It is a social crisis that cannot be solved by any single organisation or individual. The UK Government published its Digital Inclusion Action Plan in February 2025 pledging action and a call for everyone to contribute in some way. There are many great people involved in tackling this issue and for many years, but there remains much to be done. There is still too little sign of any real urgency or any joined-up and scalable solution.
The tech sector is contributing as a collective to create a systemic, strategic, scalable, and sustainable solution addressing its social responsibilities at a corporate, personal and UK plc levels. It has established a Consortium in #JoiningTheDots with tech organisations, professionals, communities and individuals to extend device life, maximise reuse, minimise e-waste, and provide affordable, sustainable and scalable solutions to achieve universal digital inclusion, high social impact and ESG goals. Its vision is “Devices for All” with a mission to “Move the needle on digital inclusion by getting more devices, more quickly into the hands of those who need them.”
Authors: Freddie Quek and Paul Finnis, Co-Directors, TheNextPath Device Consortium
According to the UN, “The same rights (to communicate) that people have offline must also be protected online”. Today 10% of UK Households (2.8m) do not have a home computer representing between 3 million and 5 million individuals with no access.
It is a social crisis that cannot be solved by any single organisation or individual. The UK Government published its Digital Inclusion Action Plan in February 2025 pledging action and a call for everyone to contribute in some way. There are many great people involved in tackling this issue and for many years, but there remains much to be done. There is still too little sign of any real urgency or any joined-up and scalable solution.
The tech sector is contributing as a collective to create a systemic, strategic, scalable, and sustainable solution addressing its social responsibilities at a corporate, personal and UK plc levels. It has established a Consortium in #JoiningTheDots with tech organisations, professionals, communities and individuals to extend device life, maximise reuse, minimise e-waste, and provide affordable, sustainable and scalable solutions to achieve universal digital inclusion, high social impact and ESG goals. Its vision is “Devices for All” with a mission to “Move the needle on digital inclusion by getting more devices, more quickly into the hands of those who need them.”
4. Context-based modelling for nanny decision-making
Authors Patrick Brézillon*, Patrick Humphreys** and Amy Luk***
*Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
**London School of Economics and Political Science,UK
***Chinese University of Hong Kong
Email for correspondance: Patrick.brezillon@gmail.com
orcid.org/0000-0003-4009-2934
Abstract
This paper presents a formalisation of context for use in real-world applications in coordination with concepts coming from Cognitive Sciences.
Our AI approach is centred on the modeling actor’s experience for accomplishing an activity in different contexts. An actor develops each time a mental model as an operational explanation in a specific context of an activity, and concretises experience in a mental representation containing all the mental models created in the different contexts where the activity was realised.
The approach is based on activity modeling in a referential at four levels, namely conceptual, operational, implementation and environment levels.
The Contextual-Graphs (CxG) formalism, which achieves the four components of the approach for one actor activity (CxG_1.0 version) and for group activity (CxG_2.0 version).
The resulting software offers a new vision of context as proceduralised context leading to a definition of realtime context and to a CxG-based simulation tool for following contextual reasoning during activity development, especially collaborative activity.
The application, on the Anam Cara Ontology project, is based on the interactions of nannies with their Anam Caras (soul friends) illustrates the different aspects of the CxG formalism.
Keywords: AI systems, decision-making, activity, mental model, contextual reasoning, contextual-graphs
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