research-document RFR-4A85B770
Create a shared benchmark and decision threshold: Contextual Color-Token Robustness
RFR-4A85B770 — Create a shared benchmark and decision threshold: Contextual Color-Token Robustness
Research opportunity
Create a shared benchmark and decision threshold for the claims or recommendations in “Contextual Color-Token Robustness.”
Background
The originating artifact is accepted by the repository publishing inventory with status “computational-pilot-complete-human-study-pending.” Its Work completed section provides the immediate evidence boundary.
Evidence trace
- Origin document: content/projects/itten-color-contrasts/experiment-report/EX-ITTEN-002-contextual-token-robustness.md
- Section:
Work completed - Specific assumption challenged: The source's treatment in “Work completed” is sufficiently supported for its intended scope.
- Supporting evidence excerpt: “Twelve interface colors were crossed with six backgrounds (72 pairs). The pipeline computed WCAG luminance contrast, Euclidean CIELAB difference, Euclidean Oklab difference, and an explicitly labeled toy induction stress value (8% displacement away from the surround in Lab).”
- Reason this opportunity exists: How competing methods or implementations compare on a common corpus with explicit utility, safety, and cost thresholds.
Unknowns
- How competing methods or implementations compare on a common corpus with explicit utility, safety, and cost thresholds.
Dependencies
Suggested REP and methodology
- Suggested REP:
REP-EX-ITTEN-002-BENCHMARK - Methodology: Curate representative cases, blind ground truth where possible, define baselines and uncertainty-aware metrics, and run reproducible benchmark evaluations.
- Expected outputs: Versioned benchmark, baseline implementations, scoring harness, datasheet, and adoption decision rule.
- Success criteria: Independent teams can reproduce scores and the benchmark discriminates meaningful quality differences without rewarding proxy gaming.
- Recommended agent:
research-engineering-agent - Estimated effort: Medium
- Expected knowledge gained: How competing methods or implementations compare on a common corpus with explicit utility, safety, and cost thresholds.
Evaluation
| Dimension | Score (1–5) |
|---|---|
| Knowledge gain | 4 |
| Potential impact | 4 |
| Cross-project reuse | 5 |
| Scientific importance | 5 |
| Dependency cost | 5 |
| Implementation difficulty | 3 |
| Frontier score | 392 |
Confidence in this opportunity: moderate. Status: Open.