Personal Context through ~WellbecomingProtocol

From event to experience

After an event is described through ~ValueCaptureProtocol, ~WellbecomingProtocol considers personal context. The same event can support one person's development and exhaust another. Context may include emotion, energy, capability, relationships, and perceived meaning, but only to the extent appropriate to the purpose and consent.

Context is not causation

An observed association between an event and a wellbeing signal does not prove that the event caused the change. Self-report, language analysis, facilitator observation, and physiological measurement are different evidence classes. The protocol should preserve these distinctions.

Revisable signals

Wellbeing signals are contextual and revisable. They should not become permanent labels or judgments of human worth. A participant may reinterpret an experience later, and the record should support correction, annotation, or withdrawal where possible.

Consent and proportionality

Personal context increases interpretive power and privacy risk. The system should ask whether a less sensitive observation would answer the question. It should avoid silent linkage across contexts and should never treat workshop participation as blanket permission for analysis.

Calibration across people

Language, emotional expression, and self-report vary across cultures, communities, abilities, and situations. Calibration cannot assume that one scale has identical meaning for everyone. Field research must include participant interpretation and qualitative evidence alongside numerical comparison.

References and grounding

• OECD Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being
• NIST AI RMF 1.0
• Foundation protocol stack