A5089242807- Digital Economy and Work Transformation
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
- Green IT and Sustainability
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Legal and Labor Studies
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Usability and User Interface Design
- Sharing Economy and Platforms
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Interactive and Immersive Displays
- Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
- Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
- Labor Law and Work Dynamics
- Auction Theory and Applications
- Innovation, Technology, and Society
- Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
University of Oxford
2022-2024
The London College
2023-2024
University College London
2022
Faculty (United Kingdom)
2022
College of Law
2022
Industrial Union of Metalworkers
2012-2021
University of California, Irvine
2010-2015
University of California System
2014
Irvine University
2014
Directorate-General for Interpretation
2010-2013
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing system in which tasks are distributed to population of thousands anonymous workers for completion. This increasingly popular with researchers and developers. Here we extend previous studies the demographics usage behaviors MTurk workers. We describe how worker has changed over time, shifting from primarily moderate-income, U.S.-based workforce towards an international group significant young, well-educated Indian change points may treat...
As HCI researchers have explored the possibilities of human computation, they paid less attention to ethics and values crowdwork. This paper offers an analysis Amazon Mechanical Turk, a popular computation system, as site technically mediated worker-employer relations. We argue that currently relies on worker invisibility. then present Turkopticon, activist system allows workers publicize evaluate their relationships with employers. common infrastructure, Turkopticon also enables engage one...
As HCI is applied in increasingly diverse contexts, it important to consider situations which computational or information technologies may be less appropriate. This paper presents a series of questions that can help researchers, designers, and practitioners articulate technology's appropriateness inappropriateness. Use these demonstrated via examples from the literature. The concludes with specific arguments for improving conduct HCI. provides means understanding articulating limits...
Paid crowd workers are not just an API call---but all too often, they treated like one.
This paper argues that designers committed to advancing justice and other non-market values must attend not only the design of objects, processes, situations, but also wider economic cultural imaginaries as a social role. The illustrates argument through case Turkopticon, originally an activist tool for workers in Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), built by authors maintained since 2009. analyzes public depictions Turkopticon which cast creative innovators AMT without agency or capacity change...
In this forum we highlight innovative thought, design, and research in the area of interaction design sustainability, illustrating diversity approaches across HCI communities. ---Lisa Nathan Samuel Mann, Editors
High-level guidelines for the treatment of crowdworkers.
What happens if efforts to achieve sustainability fail? Research in many fields argues that contemporary global industrial civilization will not persist indefinitely its current form, and may, like past human societies, eventually collapse. Arguments environmental studies, anthropology, other indicate this transformation could begin within the next half-century. While imminent collapse is far from certain, it prudent consider now how develop sociotechnical systems for use these scenarios. We...
Research in many fields argues that contemporary global industrial civilization will not persist indefinitely its current form, and may, like past human societies, eventually collapse. Arguments environmental studies, anthropology, other indicate this transformation could begin within the next half-century. While imminent collapse is far from certain, it prudent to consider now how develop sociotechnical systems for use these scenarios. We introduce notion of informatics---the study, design,...
"Tools for human computers" is an underexplored design space in computation research, which has focused on techniques buyers of rather than sellers. We characterize the sellers one market, Mechanical Turk, and describe some challenges they face. list several projects developed to approach these problems, conclude with a open questions relevant sellers, buyers, researchers.
research-article Share on From critical design to infrastructure: lessons from turkopticon Authors: Lilly Irani University of California, San Diego DiegoView Profile , M. Six Silberman Irvine IrvineView Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 21Issue 4July + August 2014 pp 32–35https://doi.org/10.1145/2627392Online:01 July 2014Publication History 27citation936DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations27Total Downloads936Last 12 Months271Last 6 weeks33 Get Citation AlertsNew Alert added!This alert has...
Since the emergence of generative AI, creative workers have spoken up about career-based harms they experienced arising from this new technology. A common theme in these accounts harm is that AI models are trained on workers' output without their consent and giving credit or compensation to original creators. This paper reports findings 20 interviews with three domains: visual art design, writing, programming. We investigate gaps between current governance strategies, what want out...
We are developing evaluation tools that help sustainable HCI researchers to contribute the overall project of achieving sustainability. In this paper we argue for importance broadening beyond traditional evaluation. note widespread phenomenon unintended environmental consequences, largely overlooked thus far in discuss three categories - principles, heuristics, and indices could facilitate projects, mainly by operationalizing definitions suggest research become more relevant evaluations link...
This paper presents a curated collection of fictional abstracts for papers that could appear in the proceedings 2039 CHI Conference. It provides an opportunity to consider various visions guiding work HCI, futures toward which we (believe we) are working, and how research field might relate with broader social, political, cultural changes over next quarter century.
This paper discusses what kinds of computer information systems might be broad social value in the context increasingly severe ecological and consequences economic growth, how they built maintained. The has two parts. first offers a particular understanding “limits” to growth. second considers this can inform design operation characterizes good “limits-aware” computing research.
Algorithmic management systems have been deployed all over the economy in recent years: software on knowledge workers’ computers monitor their keystrokes and mouse movements, take screenshots of screens, photos through webcams; movements in-person workers are monitored with fine-grained location tracking; warehouses logistics face algorithmically-enforced work quotas. also become crucial to hiring: industry research suggests 95% Fortune 500 adopted automated that rank applicants by scanning...
The promise—and perils—of algorithmic management are increasingly recognised in the literature. How should regulators respond to automation of full range traditional employer functions, from hiring workers through firing them? This article identifies two key regulatory gaps—an exacerbation privacy harms and information asymmetries, a loss human agency—and sets out series policy options designed address these novel harms. Redlines (prohibitions), purpose limitations, individual as well...
Understanding the role that energy efficiency can play in enabling IT to serve sustainability is critical, both computing industry and global ecosystem. The information communication technology sector accounts for 2-2.5 percent of CO <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> emissions growing rapidly. Making more efficient also contribute unsustainable economic growth related environmentally harmful activities. Many factors...
The role and influence of HCI research in addressing the challenges sustainability remains unclear despite ongoing interest. Sustainability-oriented paper authors, workshop participants, SIG attendees, panelists have made ambitious predictions about contributions CHI community identified critical directions for field. But lessons from past decade & Sustainability been taken substantively into practice, within beyond community? Have they had a significant positive on vitality world's...
Research is often inspired by visions of the future.These can take on various narrative forms, and fall anywhere along spectrum from utopian to dystopian.Even though we recognize importance such help us shape research questions inspire rich design spaces be explored, opportunity discuss them rarely given in a context.Imagine how civilization will have changed 15 years.What your vision for systems that supporting sustainability time?Which transformational changes occurred mean time allow...
What happens if efforts to achieve sustainability fail? Research in many fields argues that contemporary global industrial civilization will not persist indefinitely its current form, and may, like past human societies, eventually collapse. Arguments environmental studies, anthropology, other indicate this transformation could begin within the next half-century. While imminent collapse is far from certain, it prudent consider now how develop sociotechnical systems for use these scenarios. We...