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The weekly DUB seminar is the primary gathering point for the DUB community. The seminar features talks from diverse leading perspectives in Human Computer Interaction & Design, presented by members of the DUB community and by visiting researchers and practitioners.…

Peter-Lucas Jones of Te Aupouri, Ngai Takoto, Te Rarawa, and Ngāti Kahu descent, is the General Manager of Te Hiku Media. Keoni Mahelona is currently building Te Reo Māori speech recognition tools including text to speech, speech to text, and…

People tend to overtrust sophisticated computing devices, including robotic systems. As these systems become more fully interactive with humans during the performance of day-to-day activities, the role of bias in these human-robot interaction scenarios must be more carefully investigated.  Bias is a…

AI systems are increasingly used to support human work in richly social contexts such as education, healthcare, and social work. To ensure that AI systems do more good than harm, it is critical that they are designed to bring out…

Race and gender have long sociopolitical histories of classification in technical infrastructures-from the passport to social media. Facial analysis technologies are particularly pertinent to understanding how identity is operationalized in new technical systems. This talk will cover two studies on…

The weekly DUB seminar is the primary gathering point for the DUB community. The seminar features talks from diverse leading perspectives in Human Computer Interaction & Design, presented by members of the DUB community and by visiting researchers and practitioners.…

Isometric Studio partners Andy Chen and Waqas Jawaid will share their recent work at the intersection of architecture, graphic design, and social justice. This includes visual identities, exhibition design projects, and signage programs for major educational and cultural clients including Google,…

Stephanie Dinkins will discuss how her art practice confronts questions of bias in AI, data sovereignty, and social equity. Stephanie Dinkins is a transmedia artist and professor at Stony Brook University where she holds the Kusama Endowed Chair in Art.…

Designing for Voice: Access, Autonomy, and Justification Questions in Designing Computing Technologies with Marginalized Communities The benefits of computing are often confined within the populations with certain privileges. Those benefits rarely reach billions of underprivileged lives around the world fighting…

Imagine Better Futures: The future isn't created exclusively by white guys in black t-shirts who give TED Talks. In fact, thinking about the future (or "mental time travel" as psychologists call it) is not only the first step towards building…

HCI4SouthAsia presents “AI for the Next Billion”, a seminar and workshop series where experts from diverse disciplines working on Artificial Intelligence — Human-Centered AI, Ethics, Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics (FATE), Global Perspectives, Children, AI Policy, Accessibility, Autonomous Vehicles, etc…

Transgender and nonbinary people face substantial challenges in the world, ranging from social inequities and discrimination to lack of access to resources. Though technology cannot fully solve these problems, technological solutions may help to address some of the challenges trans…

Talk title: Towards Accounting for the Human in Emotion Recognition/AI Technologies Abstract: Emotions are powerful, mediate humans’ experiences with their surroundings, and impact decision-making and attention online and off. Sharing and signaling one's emotions to other humans can be beneficial, but involves…

Kate Crawford is a leading academic on the social, cultural and political implications of artificial intelligence. For over a decade, her work has focused on understanding large-scale data systems in the wider contexts of politics, history, labor, and the environment.…