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Beginning in spring of 2025, we have started to ask ourselves, as a research group, what kind of computing discipline do we want to work in? Inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” we asked ourselves: What does computing look and feel like to us? What do we want computing to look and feel like? And what type of knowledges are we drawing on in our work?
Tangible and embodied interactions – can they offer something for the way users understand and engage large language models (LLMs)? This is the question that we explored in studio (a.k.a. hands-on workshop) titled “Tangible LLMs: Tangible Sense-Making for Trustworthy Large Language Models” that PIT, namely […]
EU guidelines on trustworthy AI posits that one of the key aspects of creating AI systems is accountability, the routes to which lead through, among other things, explainability and transparency of AI systems. While working on AI Forensics project, which positions accountability as a matter […]
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 […]
The workshop series on “Methods, Theories, and Taking Action through Gender and Feminisms in Human Computer Interaction” was documented in a booklet.
Join a workshop “Critical Tools for Machine Learning” as part of CHItaly conference on July 11, 2021.
In what ways has animality, humanity and race been co-constitutive of each other? How do our understandings of being and materiality normalize humanity as white, and where does that leave the humanity of people of color? How can alternative conceptualizations of being human be found […]
This is the final part of a blogpost series reflecting on a workshop, held at FAccT conference 2020 in Barcelona, about machine learning and epistemic justice. If you are interested in the workshop concept and the theory behind it as well as what is a […]
In recent decades, new materialist thought has emerged as a transversal field of inquiry that successfully brings together and constructs hybrid spaces between the social sciences & the humanities and the natural & technical sciences & engineering. Within those spaces, engagement with the concerns around […]
Are robots racist? Is visibility a trap? Are technofixes viable? What is social justice in the high-tech world? These questions are raised in Ruha Benjamin’s book Race After Technology (2019, Polity Press) that we will read during our TBD reading group spring session 2020. Race […]