Protective Optimization Technologies: a proposal for contestation in the world rather than fairness in the algorithm

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This Responsible Use of Data Seminar is organised by The Academic Fringe Festival (TAFF). Abstract: Fairness frameworks proposed by computer scientists have come into vogue as a way to address the economic, moral, social, and political impact that digital systems have on populations. These frameworks succeed, in part, by narrowing the problem definition to reduce complexity. Not […]

Symposium on Biases in Human Computation and Crowdsourcing

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Organised by The Academic Fringe Festival and CHI Netherlands 10 NOVEMBER 2021 09:00 TILL 12 NOVEMBER 2021 17:00 - LOCATION: ONLINE, HOSTED FROM DELFT IN THE NETHERLANDS Human Computation and Crowdsourcing have become ubiquitous in the world of algorithm augmentation and data management. However, humans have various cognitive biases that influence the way they make […]

The Academic Fringe Festival (TAFF): Desiging AI Powered Interactive Systems – Towards Interaction-Centric AI

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AI-powered services and applications are introduced at a rapid pace and massive scale across various domains. Remarkable model performance, however, does not necessarily translate to an improved user experience. I argue that human-AI interaction should be considered a first-class object in designing AI-powered systems. In this talk, I will present a few novel interactive systems […]

Trivik Verma: Designing Equitable Cities at Scale (The Academic Fringe Festivall – TAFF)

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Abstract: In the last decade, technological advancements have enabled us to embed systems of large-scale sensor networks into the built environment. Consequently, urban data has emerged as an excellent stream of constant, real-time, and accurate information about all urban activities. This big data revolution, coupled with the capacity of infrastructure to be “smart”, has enticed […]

The Academic Fringe Festival – Judith Redi: When Automation is Not the Holy Grail: Designing for User-ML Collaboration in Software

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Abstract Making a software product more intelligent, powering it with ML-fuelled features to personalise experiences and automate tasks is the holy grail for many software companies. At the same time, as appealing as full task automation may sound to businesses, that’s not always the case for the final users. There is often a tension between […]