Affect-Invariance — Operational test: Evidence appears in documentation, interface cues, or governance artifacts that reflect affect-invariance.

Operational test "Evidence appears in documentation, interface cues, or governance artifacts that reflect affect-invariance." for Affect-Invariance in the Human limits & experience glossary category.

Pair this test with the minimum evidence criteria to capture both qualitative and quantitative signals.

  • Evidence artifact: Artifact documenting how Affect-Invariance is expected, enforced, or governed.
  • Behavior signal: Observed behavior showing Affect-Invariance in practice during real use or drills.
  • Metric signal: Metric tracked to monitor Affect-Invariance performance over time.

Context

How this test fits the glossary entry

Category: Human limits & experience

Baseline safety and remedy should not change based on distress, fatigue, disability, fear, or anger. Primary threat model: virtue as access control . Affect-invariance reinforces care floor guarantees and protects contestability .

E. Human limits & experience. Design that honors the limits of human time, cognition, and care.

Ethotechnics uses Affect-Invariance to extend the e. human limits & experience vocabulary and connect governance, design, and policy teams.