A5055485772- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Persona Design and Applications
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
- Art, Technology, and Culture
- Green IT and Sustainability
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Digital Communication and Language
- Sharing Economy and Platforms
- Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
- Emotion and Mood Recognition
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Cognitive Computing and Networks
Western University
2015-2024
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
2024
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
2023
Microsoft Research (United Kingdom)
2019-2020
Microsoft Research Montréal (Canada)
2018-2020
Microsoft (Canada)
2018-2020
Dartmouth College
2016-2019
Harvard University
2019
New York University
2012-2019
Microsoft (United States)
2019
Many organizations have published principles intended to guide the ethical development and deployment of AI systems; however, their abstract nature makes them difficult operationalize. Some therefore produced ethics checklists, as well checklists for more specific concepts, such fairness, applied systems. But unless are grounded in practitioners' needs, they may be misused. To understand role ethics, we conducted an iterative co-design process with 48 practitioners, focusing on fairness. We...
This paper uses frame analysis to examine recent high-profile values statements endorsing ethical design for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Guided by insights from in the sociology of business ethics, we uncover grounding assumptions terms debate that make some conversations about possible while forestalling alternative visions. Vision AI/ML co-opt language critics, folding them into a limited, technologically deterministic, expert-driven view what means how it might work.
This piece examines emoji as conduits for affective labor in the social networks of informational capitalism. Emoji, ubiquitous digital images that can appear text messages, emails, and media chat platforms, are rich social, cultural, economic significance. article historical, cultural objects, examples skeuomorphism technical standardization. Now superseded explicitly monetized objects by other graphics designed interactions, nonetheless represent emotional data enormous interest to...
Uber manages a large, disaggregated workforce through its ridehail platform, one that delivers relatively standardized experience to passengers while simultaneously promoting drivers as entrepreneurs whose work is characterized by freedom, flexibility, and independence. Through nine-month empirical study of driver experiences, we found does leverage significant indirect control over how do their jobs. Our conclusions are twofold: First, the information power asymmetries produced application...
In this paper, we develop a taxonomy of conceptual models and proxy data used for digital analysis human emotional expression outline how the combinations permutations these impact their incorporation into artificial intelligence (AI) systems. We argue should not take computer scientists at word that paradigms emotions they have developed internally adapted from other disciplines can produce ground truth about emotions; instead, ask different conceptualizations what are, be sensed, measured...
Recent public controversies, ranging from the 2014 Facebook ‘emotional contagion’ study to psychographic data profiling by Cambridge Analytica in 2016 American presidential election, Brexit referendum and elsewhere, signal watershed moments which intersecting trajectories of psychology computer science have become matters concern. The entangled history these two fields grounds application applied psychological techniques digital technologies, an investment applying calculability human...
It's dangerous, racializing, and has few legitimate uses; facial recognition needs regulation control on par with nuclear waste.
The reanimation of the pseudosciences physiognomy and phrenology at scale through computer vision machine learning is a matter urgent concern. This Article, which contributes to critical data studies, consumer protection law, biometric privacy anti-discrimination endeavors conceptualize problematize physiognomic artificial intelligence (AI) offer policy recommendations for state federal lawmakers forestall its proliferation.Physiognomic AI, we contend, practice using software related systems...
We present Queer in AI as a case study for community-led participatory design AI. examine how and intersectional tenets started shaped this community's programs over the years. discuss different challenges that emerged process, look at ways organization has fallen short of operationalizing principles, then assess organization's impact. provides important lessons insights practitioners theorists methods broadly through its rejection hierarchy favor decentralization, success building aid by...
Problematic use of data, patterns bias emerging in AI systems, and the role platforms like Facebook Twitter during elections have thrown issue data ethics into sharp relief. Yet focus conversations about has centered on computer scientists, engineers, designers, with far less attention paid to digital practices artists others cultural sector. Artists historically deployed new technologies unexpected often prescient ways, making them a community able speak directly changing nuanced ethical...
Abstract Employers are increasingly using information and communication technologies to monitor employees. Such workplace surveillance is extensive in the United States, but its experience potential consequences differ across groups based on gender. We thus sought identify whether self‐reported male female employees extent which they find use of cameras equipped with facial recognition technology (FRT) acceptable, examine role privacy attitudes more generally mediating views surveillance....
Why are ongoing legal, design, and policy debates around information privacy often divorced from the lived experience of everyday digital media use? This article argues that human emotion is a critical but undertheorized element in users' subjective sense privacy. The piece advocates for greater attention to phenomenology feeling concept "visceral" design scholarship, policy, practice.
Facial recognition systems are increasingly common components of commercial smart phones such as the iPhone X and Samsung Galaxy S9. These technologies also being put to use in consumer-facing social media video-sharing applications, Apple’s animoji memoji, Facebook Messenger’s masks filters Samsung’s AR Emoji. animations serve technical phenomena translating moments affective emotional expression into mediated socially legible forms. Through an analysis these objects broader literature on...
A growing list of high-profile controversies involving the social impacts ar- tificial intelligence systems (AI), digital data collection and algorithmic analy- sis have forced difficult conversations around ethics data-intensive digi- tal technologies so-called “big data” research.These incidents are directly relevant to newly coalescing cultures “data science,” an emergent field which seeks both interpret capitalize on creation, collection, processing knowledge through large collections...
We are surrounded by digital images of personal lives posted online. Changes in information and communications technology have enabled widespread sharing photos, increasing access to aspects private life previously less observable. Most studies privacy online explore differences individual preferences. Here we examine perceptions photos considering both social norms, collectively—shared expectations conducted an factorial vignette study on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk ( n = 279). Our findings...
We argue that modern technical and social infrastructures of surveillance have brought a novel subject position to prominence: the surveillant consumer. Surveillance has become normalized mode interpersonal relation urges person as consumer manage others around her using products services. explore two configurations this model: observer, effectuated through for use in supervision intimate relations component duty care; manager, capacities customer labor workers providing services her. These...
Recent debate within the FAT* community has focused on how field conceptualizes problems it seeks to address, what approach should take in attempting address these problems, and whether even pursue some of proposed remedies. Questions regarding when not design, build, or deploy a technology are perhaps most common expression this trend. Identifying is inextricably linked broader question collectively make decisions about technologies our societies need want.
Through a values in design (VID) analysis, this article assesses two mood-tracking apps (Moodscope and MoodPanda) to argue the particular interface choices of these applications serve influence their users’ sense sociality self-fashioning. The features artifacts signal broader shift sociotechnical definitions discourses feeling an individual, enabling emergent emotive politics at work across contemporary digital media technologies.
Algorithms and other formal models purportedly incorporating human values like fairness have grown increasingly popular in computer science. In response to sociotechnical challenges the use of these models, designers researchers taken widely divergent positions on how aspects should be used: encouraging their use, moving away from them, or ignoring normative consequences altogether. this paper, we seek resolve by identifying main conceptual limits modeling, develop four reflexive...
Animation as genre is broadly used across many forms of digital media. In this paper, I argue ChatGPT and similar chatbots powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) can be best understood animated characters. More than just cartooning, puppetry, or CGI, animation a paradigm involving the projection qualities perceived human such power, agency, will, personality outside self onto objects in environment. Characteristics animation—including reliance on stereotypes, obfuscation labor, manipulation...
While there has been considerable academic work over the past decade on preserving and enhancing digital privacy, little of this scholarship influenced practitioners in design or industry. By bringing together leading privacy academics commercial stakeholders, workshop builds previous gatherings at ACM conferences broader community. Workshop attendees will address 'privacy by design' implementation problem, to identify actionable methods heuristics for closing gap between research industry...
Abstract Drawing on prior work in the history and philosophy of statistics, I argue that many cases analyses powered by artificial-intelligence (AI) techniques such as machine learning (ML) are fundamentally ‘conjectural’: reliant ex post facto abductive logics often misinterpreted contemporary machine-learning systems reliably reproducible truth. Here relate what Carlo Ginzburg calls ‘the conjectural sciences’ a historical category to their instantiation practice ‘automated conjecture’....