Role
Where the work happens
The initiative is the operational base for the Reboot Project. Pilot studies, measurement documentation, tool development, and student training all run through it.
Institutional anchor
Illinois Self-Complexity Initiative
A strategic, Illinois-based engine for pilot work, student training, tool development, and the long-range goal of building durable infrastructure for self-complexity science.
Why Illinois
A home for the long game
UIUC provides an institutional anchor with the breadth — health and kinesiology, psychology, engineering, education — needed to support a cross-disciplinary self-complexity program over the long term.
Current focus
Tools, specs, students, pilots
App and dashboard development, the published measurement specifications, undergraduate and graduate involvement, and early pilot work that sets up larger collaborative studies.
What this layer can support now
Method development
Formal measurement specifications, dashboard refinements, and legacy-to-modern translation work.
Student training
Hands-on roles in data organization, visualization, methods notes, tool testing, and related scholarship.
Pilot studies
Small-scope empirical projects that test the ecosystem, strengthen the methods story, and set up larger proposals.
Long-term infrastructure
The initiative is building toward dedicated, durable infrastructure for self-complexity research at the University of Illinois — including a longitudinal program on self-complexity and health across the lifespan.