Emmanuel Boateng
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Tools that
take their side.

Research earns its keep when it is tested in use. These are four applied prototypes and models, built around the people inside complex projects: their safety, their wellbeing, their learning and their work.

§ 01 · Applied work ↓4 builds · 2 awards · since 2022
§ 01 · Applied work

Four builds

since 2022
PsycheGuard prototype interface
PsycheGuard prototype interface
01Award-winning prototype

PsycheGuard

A quiet first step, for the people on site.

A conversational prototype exploring a quieter first step toward psychosocial support for construction workers. Its safety-first interaction design was developed for an industry where reaching out can be difficult.

Conversational AIVoiceflowPsychosocial safetyConstruction
Social Impact Award + People’s Choice Award · UNSW Digital Makers Competition, 2024UNSW Founders Micro Grant · with UNSW & Queensland University of Technology
Recognition
Receiving the award · UNSW Founders, 2024
Receiving the award · UNSW Founders, 2024
Feedforward agent · symposium UI still
Feedforward agent · symposium UI still
02Symposium demonstration

Feedforward Agent

Feedback that points forward, at scale.

A demonstration agent for feedforward: guidance aimed at the next attempt, not just a grade on the last one. The research asks how personalised assessment guidance can remain feasible across large cohorts.

AI agentAssessmentHigher educationLangChain
Showcase talk · “The Case for AI Agents in Assessment Feedforward” · AI & Assessment Symposium, UNSW Canberra, June 2026Learning & Teaching Innovation Grant (A$14,630) · University of Wollongong
SafetySage construction safety chatbot · prototype interface
SafetySage construction safety chatbot · prototype interface
03Conference demonstration

SafetySage

Site safety know-how, on demand.

A chatbot developed to share construction safety knowledge and make guidance, regulations and site experience easier to retrieve in plain language.

NLPKnowledge retrievalWHSVoiceflow
Innovator Showcase · 23rd World Congress on Health & Safety at Work, Sydney, 2023UOW Global Research Small Grants Scheme · A$7,850.40
Recognition
Innovator Showcase · 23rd World Congress on H&S at Work, Sydney
Innovator Showcase · 23rd World Congress on H&S at Work, Sydney
Green-building predictor · published model figure
Green-building predictor · published model figure
04Published model · industry-implemented

Green-Building Predictor

Cost & schedule certainty for sustainable builds.

A published machine-learning model for predicting final cost and duration from early green-building project data, trained on 198 completed Hong Kong projects and implemented in industry by Yau Lee Construction Company Limited.

Machine learningCost predictionGreen buildingPython
Implemented in industry by Yau Lee Construction Company LimitedHong Kong Polytechnic University Research Grant (HK$600,000, ~A$116,863) · Co-Investigator
§ 02 · Toolkit

How these get made

research question → tested prototype or applied model

One stack carries a project from a question to a testable form: modelling and text mining in R and Python, agents orchestrated and observed, then evaluated through demonstrations, publications or applied use.

Modelling & data
RPythonTypeScriptMachine LearningNeural NetworksNLPSentiment AnalysisSocial Network AnalysisSPSSNVivo
AI & agent development
LangGraphLangChainVoiceflowLangSmithLangFuseNext.jsGoogle Cloud RunStreamlit
Construction & project delivery
Primavera P6MS ProjectVico OfficeBIM 4D/5DJiraLinear
Automation & teaching
Make.comn8nZapierCanvasMoodleMiroMentimeterH5P