Pub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462197
D. Parrilli, Rodrigo Hernández-Ramírez
Dark patterns are highly unethical tools used in digital design to obtain, inter alia, as much personal data as possible from users; normally, without their consent. However, the methods followed by dark patterns can be re-purposed to actually enhance users’ privacy, thus turning them into ethical tools. This ongoing research aims to show how dark patterns can be re-designed to steer users into choosing the strictest privacy settings. From the point of view of ethical design practices, this implies a substantial transformation of something inherently bad into a public interest enabler.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462175
K. Harrison, Ahmet Börütecene, J. Löwgren, Desirée Enlund, Rasmus Ringdahl, Vangelis Angelakis
The challenge of how cities can be designed and developed in an inclusive and sustainable direction is monumental. Smart city technologies currently offer the most promising solution for long-term sustainability. However, smart city projects have been criticised for ignoring diverse needs of the local population and increasing social divides. A sustainable urban environment depends as much on creating an inclusive space that is safe, accessible and comfortable for a diverse group of citizens as it does on deploying “smart” technologies for energy efficiency or environmental protection. This is because citizens will be more likely to adopt technologies promoting sustainability if they are well-aligned with their lived needs and experiences. In this paper, we present the rationale behind an ongoing interdisciplinary research project that aims to address exactly the problem outlined above by using a participatory design approach. Focusing on a smart city test site in Sweden where sensors are currently being deployed to collect data on noise, particles, vehicle numbers and types (amongst other), the goal is to bring local residents and government representatives into dialogue with technical developers by adopting a “meet-in-the-middle” approach. This paper comprises a brief presentation of early findings and a reflection on this approach.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462244
Megan Demko, Katina Michael, Kennedy Wagner, T. Bookman
This paper explores the prospect of brain implants as related to human activity and functioning. The researchers present information compiled through popular data collection using specific keywords related to brain implantation. The study calls into question and discusses the harm that could result if a negligent populace receives brain implants to “merge” with artificial intelligence through brain computer interfaces. Its intent is to raise awareness of the risks that brain implantation imposes on an individual’s health, wellbeing and livelihood.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462210
Nicolai Iversen, M. Birkved, Dylan Cawthorne
Value sensitive design (VSD) is an approach that facilitates the pro-active incorporation of human values into technological design. The VSD literature, as well as empirical studies, identify environmental sustainability as a human value with importance in design, and therefore importance in Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) design. UAS have begun to spark significant public interest and environmental changes. However, there are few studies that address how to design UAS for these changes, and none that take VSD as their point of departure. In this work, the environmental sustainability of UAS are analyzed using VSD and environmental impact potential assessment (EIPA) approaches. VSD envisioning cards are used as design prompts to identify relevant social and environmental impacts for two case studies to illustrate the approach: a healthcare application, and a powerline inspection application. The environmental impact potential is assessed, along with consideration of the drone’s materials and manufacturing processes which have an effect on toxicity to humans, water depletion, and acidification. Then, general insights into how UAS can be designed for enhanced environmental sustainability are discussed. The results show high sensitivity to changes in defining the system boundaries and in defining relevant UAS scenarios, as a direct comparison of drone and non-drone scenarios is not possible. Thus, VSD and EIPA approaches can provide a nuanced way to analyze UAS applications, leading to positive social impacts and enhanced environmental sustainability in UAS in the future.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462193
McKane Andrus, Sarah Dean, T. Gilbert, Nathan Lambert, T. Zick
Despite interest in communicating ethical problems and social contexts within the undergraduate curriculum to advance Public Interest Technology (PIT) goals, interventions at the graduate level remain largely unexplored. This may be due to the conflicting ways through which distinct Artificial Intelligence (AI) research tracks conceive of their interface with social contexts. In this paper we track the historical emergence of sociotechnical inquiry in three distinct subfields of AI research: AI Safety, Fair Machine Learning (Fair ML) and Human-Inthe-Loop (HIL) Autonomy. We show that for each subfield, perceptions of PIT stem from the particular dangers faced by past integration of technical systems within a normative social order. We further interrogate how these histories dictate the response of each subfield to conceptual traps, as defined in the Science and Technology Studies literature. Finally, through a comparative analysis of these currently siloed fields, we present a roadmap for a unified approach to sociotechnical graduate pedogogy in AI.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462172
A. Ferraro
Current industry practices concerning the protection of rights and privacy has been found wanting. This discussion provides analysis and justification on the realignment needed to re-establish ethical development practices as the norm rather than the exception. Support for change is based on the recognition of human rights, to one extent or another, among the nations of the world. The introduction of Affective Rights is made and shown to have always existed as inalienable. To aid in acceptance and to encourage appropriate development of the new approach, a conceptual system design is outlined as a straightforward strategy using proven technology. To be effective, changes will be required in the way consumers, developers, and regulatory agencies protect these rights, and are made aware of these issues. To that end, it is proposed independent auditing services be created as part of the prototype to verify and validate stakeholder compliance to accepted ethical standards. A flagship pilot program is proposed as a proof of concept.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462220
Damita Kaloostian, Brittany M. McCall, N. Chhetri
The rapid onset of COVlD-19 brought unprecedented changes to K-12 schools throughout the United States, requiring many schools to immediately transition to distance learning COVlD-19 significantly altered the delivery and learning of core and entrepreneurial competencies and previous studies on distance learning showed a greater benefit to students who have more robust academic support systems. In addition, COVlD-19 required an increased reliance on technology to deliver education in ways that many educational infrastructures were ill-prepared to do. Some schools in the US distributed computers and WiFi hotspots to students to facilitate access to distance learning platforms. This distribution of computers to students during the pandemic harkens back to One Laptop Per Child This study peers into current achieivement gaps for core and entrepreneurial competencies, assessing whether the technology-reliant distance education prompted by COVlD-19 further entrenches existing, or creates additional gaps for students. The theoretical frameworks underpinning this research include principles of lnformation, Communication, and Technology (lCT); distance education, digital divide; technological determinism; technological optimism and entrepreneurial mindset The research leverages a secondary and thematic analysis of survey data that assessed the distance learning experiences of families in the Paradise Valley School District (Phoenix, Arizona) during CO VlD-19. Parent-guardian perceptions were intentionally selected for this study as this group now plays a different, more prominent role in students education.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462215
C. J. Barton
The “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (4IR) debuted at the World Economic Forum’s 2016 conference as a vision of the future in which emerging technologies change “the very essence of our human experience.” Since then, the idea of 4IR has been used to promote a wide range of emerging technologies and organizations. This paper takes a critical look at the idea of the fourth industrial revolution, exploring how 4IR benefits the organizations which adopt it, the validity and implications of claiming that certain technologies cause ‘revolutionary’ change, and the consequences of adopting a vision of the future written and promoted by the notoriously exclusive World Economic Forum. I argue that 4IR is based in the flawed logic of technological determinism, and that it disempowers women, people of color, and the people of the Global South while reinforcing and justifying the power held over them by the Global North and its tech industries. 4IR is currently an attractive marketing phrase, but it damages the credibility and reputation of those who adopt it while promoting the development of technologies which serve private interests over public interests.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462188
Shreyans Chowdhary, Sam Daitzman, Ruby Eisenbud, Emma Pan, E. Graeff
The emerging field of Public Interest Technology contains the seeds for an engineering practice that embodies the ethic of care and undergraduate engineering educational experiences in the mold of liberatory education. We realized these opportunities by creating an undergraduate, student-led public interest technology clinic. Using autoethnography, we reflect on our effort to create the clinic and find that we prioritized emotions and relationships, embraced slowness and deliberation, and claimed student ownership. These practices define public interest technology and redefine engineering in ways centering care and equity, which enabled us to create the inclusive and effective engineering and public interest technology educational experiences we wanted for ourselves.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-12DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462233
T. Smith
New technology enabling previously unfeasible automation processes creates potential issues for those who once conducted said tasks. By reducing the resources taken to perform costly operations, businesses and organizations can potentially create substantial savings, increasing profitability by re-evaluating resources and their necessity. This shift towards automation exposes a vital issue; Where do displaced humans fit in the post-automation regime? This work proposes a new approach to this problem - an abstract framework for human-centric automation based on virtue ethics and system theory principles. Exploring the role of human agents within complex systems reveals an argument for the necessity of a human-centric approach to automation. By proposing a preliminary framework to enforce a set of mutually agreed-upon fundamental rights for workers and stakeholders, the resulting system can implement ethical treatment for all individuals within a system. The work concludes with a dialogue on the implications and applications of the proposed model with possible future extensions.
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