CITR: Cognitive Integration Time Regulation — A Risk Awareness Framework for High-Velocity Human-in-the-Loop Digital Environments

Machine velocity — combining update speed, information density, scarcity triggers, fear/greed cues, and algorithmic engagement loops — can outpace human cognitive integration time in specific edge-status situations. When this occurs, decisions are associated with a shift from deliberate, consent-based evaluation toward impulsive or aborted responses. This framework, CITR (Cognitive Integration Time Regulation), provides a risk signal approximating this condition through the formula: D(t) = Th / Tm where Th is human integration time (channel-specific: haptic ~10–150 ms, visual ~100–300 ms, cognitive ~200–300 ms) and Tm is machine stimulus velocity. When D(t) exceeds a user-configurable threshold T(s) — default…