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Current research projects

Transparency in Fairness-Aware Algorithms

ACM Computer Science Ethics in the Classroom

ACM Computer Science Ethics in the Classroom

Submitted for review at UMAP 2021

Study type: semi-structured interview

Key words: folk theories, fairness, recommender systems, algorithms, transparency, explanations


Exploratory, formative study seeking to explore what users need from explanations in a fairness-aware recommender system.

ACM Computer Science Ethics in the Classroom

ACM Computer Science Ethics in the Classroom

ACM Computer Science Ethics in the Classroom

Data cleaning phase

Study type: systematic lit review

Key words: ethics, computer science, education


Summative study seeking to explore the ways that ethics pedagogy has evolved in computer science classrooms in the SIGCHI community and also in the ACM community.

Assessing Educator Attitudes for CS Ethics

ACM Computer Science Ethics in the Classroom

Assessing Educator Attitudes for CS Ethics

Study design phase

Study type: Survey

Key words: ethics, computer science, education, attitudes


Formative study seeking to explore the attitudes that computing educators have towards incorporating ethics in their classroom, including roadblocks.

Designing Explainable AI (XAI) For Users

Participatory Design Towards AI Education

Assessing Educator Attitudes for CS Ethics

Study design phase

Study type: semi-structured interview

Key words: XAI, transparency, explanations, predictive resource allocation


Exploratory formative study seeking to explore what users of a predictive resource allocation system need from XAI.

Co-Defining Radical AI as a Community

Participatory Design Towards AI Education

Participatory Design Towards AI Education

Study design phase

Study type: structured interview

Key words: radical, AI, resistance, power, ethics, responsible technology


Exploratory summative study seeking to co-define "Radical AI" with the responsible technology community from interviews on the Radical AI podcast.

Participatory Design Towards AI Education

Participatory Design Towards AI Education

Participatory Design Towards AI Education

Study design phase

Study type: TBD

Key words: participatory design, explanation, transparency, education


Study description TBD.



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