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Respect as a Lens for the Design of AI Systems
William Seymour, Max Van Kleek, Reuben Binns +1
Critical examinations of AI systems often apply principles such as fairness, justice, accountability, and safety, which is reflected in AI regulations such as the EU AI Act. Are su…
Goodbye Tracking? Impact of iOS App Tracking Transparency and Privacy Labels
Konrad Kollnig, Anastasia Shuba, Max Van Kleek +2
Tracking is a highly privacy-invasive data collection practice that has been ubiquitous in mobile apps for many years due to its role in supporting advertising-based revenue models…
Exploring Interactions Between Trust, Anthropomorphism, and Relationship Development in Voice Assistants
William Seymour, Max Van Kleek
Modern conversational agents such as Alexa and Google Assistant represent significant progress in speech recognition, natural language processing, and speech synthesis. But as thes…
A Fait Accompli? An Empirical Study into the Absence of Consent to Third-Party Tracking in Android Apps
Konrad Kollnig, Reuben Binns, Pierre Dewitte +5
Third-party tracking allows companies to collect users' behavioural data and track their activity across digital devices. This can put deep insights into users' private lives into…
I Want My App That Way: Reclaiming Sovereignty Over Personal Devices
Konrad Kollnig, Siddhartha Datta, Max Van Kleek
Dark patterns in mobile apps take advantage of cognitive biases of end-users and can have detrimental effects on people's lives. Despite growing research in identifying remedies fo…
Exploring Design and Governance Challenges in the Development of Privacy-Preserving Computation
Nitin Agrawal, Reuben Binns, Max Van Kleek +2
Homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party computation, and differential privacy are part of an emerging class of Privacy Enhancing Technologies which share a common promise: to pr…
Digitalization of COVID-19 pandemic management and cyber risk from connected systems
Petar Radanliev, David De Roure, Max Van Kleek
What makes cyber risks arising from connected systems challenging during the management of a pandemic? Assuming that a variety of cyber-physical systems are already operational-col…
Strangers in the Room: Unpacking Perceptions of 'Smartness' and Related Ethical Concerns in the Home
William Seymour, Reuben Binns, Petr Slovak +2
The increasingly widespread use of 'smart' devices has raised multifarious ethical concerns regarding their use in domestic spaces. Previous work examining such ethical dimensions…
Super-reflective Data: Speculative Imaginings of a World Where Data Works for People
Max Van Kleek
It's the year 2020, and every space and place on- and off-line has been augmented with digital things that observe, record, transmit, and compute, for the purposes of recording end…
Does Siri Have a Soul? Exploring Voice Assistants Through Shinto Design Fictions
William Seymour, Max Van Kleek
It can be difficult to critically reflect on technology that has become part of everyday rituals and routines. To combat this, speculative and fictional approaches have previously…
Informing the Design of Privacy-Empowering Tools for the Connected Home
William Seymour, Martin J. Kraemer, Reuben Binns +1
Connected devices in the home represent a potentially grave new privacy threat due to their unfettered access to the most personal spaces in people's lives. Prior work has shown th…
'I Just Want to Hack Myself to Not Get Distracted': Evaluating Design Interventions for Self-Control on Facebook
Ulrik Lyngs, Kai Lukoff, Petr Slovak +6
Beyond being the world's largest social network, Facebook is for many also one of its greatest sources of digital distraction. For students, problematic use has been associated wit…
Informing The Future of Data Protection in Smart Homes
Martin J Kraemer, William Seymour, Reuben Binns +2
Recent changes to data protection regulation, particularly in Europe, are changing the design landscape for smart devices, requiring new design techniques to ensure that devices ar…
Self-Control in Cyberspace: Applying Dual Systems Theory to a Review of Digital Self-Control Tools
Ulrik Lyngs, Kai Lukoff, Petr Slovak +5
Many people struggle to control their use of digital devices. However, our understanding of the design mechanisms that support user self-control remains limited. In this paper, we…
`I make up a silly name': Understanding Children's Perception of Privacy Risks Online
Jun Zhao, Ge Wang, Carys Dally +4
Children under 11 are often regarded as too young to comprehend the implications of online privacy. Perhaps as a result, little research has focused on younger kids' risk recogniti…
Some HCI Priorities for GDPR-Compliant Machine Learning
Michael Veale, Reuben Binns, Max Van Kleek
In this short paper, we consider the roles of HCI in enabling the better governance of consequential machine learning systems using the rights and obligations laid out in the recen…
"So, Tell Me What Users Want, What They Really, Really Want!"
Ulrik Lyngs, Reuben Binns, Max Van Kleek +1
Equating users' true needs and desires with behavioural measures of 'engagement' is problematic. However, good metrics of 'true preferences' are difficult to define, as cognitive b…
Measuring third party tracker power across web and mobile
Reuben Binns, Jun Zhao, Max Van Kleek +1
Third-party networks collect vast amounts of data about users via web sites and mobile applications. Consolidations among tracker companies can significantly increase their individ…
Fairness and Accountability Design Needs for Algorithmic Support in High-Stakes Public Sector Decision-Making
Michael Veale, Max Van Kleek, Reuben Binns
Calls for heightened consideration of fairness and accountability in algorithmically-informed public decisions---like taxation, justice, and child protection---are now commonplace.…
Like trainer, like bot? Inheritance of bias in algorithmic content moderation
Reuben Binns, Michael Veale, Max Van Kleek +1
The internet has become a central medium through which `networked publics' express their opinions and engage in debate. Offensive comments and personal attacks can inhibit particip…
Collective Intelligence in Citizen Science -- A Study of Performers and Talkers
Ramine Tinati, Elena Simperl, Markus Luczak-Roesch +2
The recent emergence of online citizen science is illustrative of an efficient and effective means to harness the crowd in order to achieve a range of scientific discoveries. Funda…