01 · Welcome
Map your identity across time
Past, present, and future selves are captured in one coherent system that feels more like a platform than a survey.
Part of the Self-Complexity Reboot Project
Rebuilding the Science of Identity
A new platform for measuring, visualizing, and analyzing self-complexity across time.
From individual identity mapping to publishable research outputs.
Tool-powered
Open science aligned
Cross-disciplinary by design
📐 Standardized Measurement Specification for formulas, guidance, and citation.
Identity Space
Network visualization of self-aspects across individuals
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public hub built to reconnect and reboot a fragmented field
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aligned layers: reboot project, research network, and Illinois initiative
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applications across psychology, health, education, business, leadership, performing arts, and more
What this is
A Field That Stalled. A System That Didn’t Exist.
Self-complexity has been influential for decades, but difficult to measure, compare, and scale. This platform changes that. It brings together structured identity mapping tools, reproducible measurement systems, interactive network visualizations, and publication-ready outputs in one unified, open framework.
Visual proof
From Self-Mapping to Scientific Insight
The fastest way to understand this ecosystem is to see the workflow. These screens show how identity is mapped, structured, visualized, and translated into research-ready analytics.
02 · Build
Define and rate self-aspects
Users can specify roles and attributes while rating importance, certainty, descriptiveness, visibility, and valence.
03 · Analyze
Analyze at the cohort level
The dashboard converts mapped selves into interpretable outputs that researchers can inspect, compare, and build upon.
Why this matters
This is not just a site. It is an organizing layer for the field.
Most research hubs explain ideas. This one can demonstrate a working system. Visitors can move from the public story to the actual app and dashboard with almost no friction.
- Lead with live tools instead of abstract claims
- Show a workflow that moves from individual mapping to publishable outputs
- Use the manifesto, tools, and network pages to deepen the case after the visuals hook attention
Distinctive pairing
Visualize identity as a network. Quantify structure and change.
Identity Space grabs attention immediately. The profile metrics and structured tables make it equally clear that the ecosystem is methodologically ambitious.
Unified structure
A Unified Effort to Rebuild the Field
This ecosystem works because each layer has a distinct job. Together they create a public-facing network, a larger research movement, and an Illinois-based engine for execution.
Vision
Reboot Project
Revisiting theory, standardizing measurement, and advancing new metrics for the next generation of self-complexity research.
Community
Research Network
A growing collaboration of researchers, students, and developers contributing across disciplines and domains.
Infrastructure
Illinois Initiative
A research engine at the University of Illinois driving tools, studies, training, and future center-building.
Collaboration
Built for a Cross-Disciplinary Future
Self-complexity research extends far beyond psychology. This hub is designed to welcome collaborators wherever identity structure, role organization, development, performance, adaptation, or self-concept matter.
Behavioral and health sciences
Psychology, kinesiology, public health, cognitive science, and related areas examining adaptation, functioning, resilience, and identity.
Education, leadership, and organizations
Researchers exploring professional identity, learning, belonging, leadership development, transition, and self-concept in institutions and teams.
Arts, performance, and applied domains
Performing arts, business, coaching, design, and other applied spaces where identity dynamics shape behavior, creativity, decision-making, and growth.
Explore the platform
Launch the tools directly
The public hub is not the endpoint. It is the launchpad. Visitors should be able to move directly into the live tools with minimal friction.
Platform access
- Launch the Self-Mapping App at /app/
- Open the Research Dashboard at /dashboard/
- Review the tools page for screenshots, use cases, and the broader workflow
No installation. No accounts. Fully browser-based.
Citable
Citable measurement framework
A dedicated specification page now provides download, citation, and versioned methods framing for psych-oriented scholarship.
Research-ready
Publication-ready outputs
The dashboard is positioned not just as a visualization layer but as a pathway toward interpretable tables, profiles, and analytic workflow.
Transparent
Open science aligned
Documentation, inspectable browser-based tools, and future OSF-ready resources are built into the ecosystem rather than added as an afterthought.
Credibility layer
Grounded in literature. Built for open science.
This public hub is designed to make the science feel accessible without making it feel thin. Visitors should be able to see the theory roots, the measurement agenda, and the open-science direction of the work in just a few clicks.
Foundations
Classic theory + modern methods
Surface the literature anchors, then show how the app and dashboard extend the field into measurable, inspectable structure.
Open pathway
Specs, preprints, workflows, and OSF-ready materials
Build trust by making it clear that documentation and resources are not an afterthought. They are part of the platform.
Led by Sean P. Mullen, PhD
Led by Sean P. Mullen, PhD
Associate Professor, Health and Kinesiology; Director, Exercise, Technology, and Cognition Laboratory; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
This project integrates research on identity, behavior, and digital health to advance the science and measurement of self-complexity.