When thinking of computer science – what images pop into one’s head and what can those images tell us about the discipline as well as interconnected societal expectations and norms? In this short post we report on our research into gendered codings of computer science. […]
Thoughts from the PIT: Introducing Lea Stöter
I have recently visited my first academic conference – the closing event of a project titled “Shaping AI” – and on the train journey back, after two days of presentations, soaking up knowledge, attempts at networking, and questions-turning-monologues, I left with one question: “Can this […]
Bayesian Knowledge: Situated and Pluriversal Perspectives
November 9 & 10, 2023 09:00–12:30 BST / 10:00–13:30 CET / 04:00–07:30 ET / 20:00–23:30 AEDT Hybrid workshop (online + at Goldsmiths, London, UK) This workshop examines potential conceptual and practical correlations between Bayesian approaches, in statistics, data science, mathematics and other fields, and feminist […]
Feminist XAI: From centering “the human” to centering marginalized communities
Explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) as a design perspective towards explainable AI can benefit from feminist perspectives. This post explores some dimensions of feminist approaches to explainability and human-centred explainable AI.
critML: Critical Tools for Machine Learning that Bring Together Intersectional Feminist Scholarship and Systems Design
Critical Tools for Machine Learning or CritML is a project that brings together critical intersectional feminist theory and machine learning systems design. The goal of the project is to provide ways to work with critical theoretical concepts that are rooted in intersectional feminist, anti-racist, post/de-colonial […]
Booklet documentation of the “Methods, Theories, and Taking Action Through Gender and Feminisms in Human-Computer Interaction” event series
The workshop series on “Methods, Theories, and Taking Action through Gender and Feminisms in Human Computer Interaction” was documented in a booklet.
FAIRDIENSTE: Designing fair data economy approaches
In 2022 an increasing number of digital businesses are building their business models on data collection, its usage, and further processing. Data and especially so-called big data holds the potential for a lot of innovation and empowers the advancement of all-day-technologies, knowledge engineering and the […]
Broadening perspectives with the GERD model
Technical research and development are embedded in social contexts, afforded by stakeholders, their goals and interests, values and assumptions, and the social and professional structures they are part of. The choice of research topics and many development decisions start from rather general, standard assumptions about […]
WE CALLED HER CYBORG AUNT
INTRODUCTION Taking as its starting point a family archive of 16mm colour material recorded in 1950’s Congo, We called her cyborg aunt is an ongoing artistic research project into the rhetorics and epistemic frameworks surrounding the “use” of technology, underlining the continuity of hierarchies and […]
Reflections on Responsibility: Teaching prospective Interaction Designers to design post-digital futures
Our lived realities are inextricably tied to technologies and digital infrastructures. This means that when we educate designers and computer scientists of the future, we have to do more than simply give them the technical skills needed for their future jobs. It is also our […]