ethic Archives - WeNet

Meet the WeNet Open Call winners

galileomartel — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 08:36:49 +0000

After a successful call (12 July – 30 September 2021) and a challenging evaluation process – involving the 24 total proposals received – we’re proud to introduce you to the WeNet’s Open Call winners, which feature a diverse range of applicants, from universities to NGOs and start-ups, coming from 4 different EU countries (and beyond).…

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WeNet partners at ACM UMAP 2020

galileomartel — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 07:58:52 +0000

Laura Schelenz, Avi Segal, and Kobi Gal will present their research on “Best practices for Transparency in Machine Generated Personalization” at the ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization in July 2020. Their interdisciplinary research at the intersection of ethics, data science, and machine learning provides guidance to system designers on how to increase…

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D5.1 WeNet’s Diversity-Aware Interactions

galileomartel — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 11:33:36 +0000

WeNet’s main objective is achieving a diversity-aware, machine-mediated paradigm for social interactions. This deliverable focuses on WeNet’s diversity-aware interaction model that enables our online interactions while ensuring they are privacy-compliant, diversity-aware, and in more general terms, fulfil our ethical requirements. The deliverable is divided into two main parts. The first focuses on the issue of…

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D2.1 Initial individual learning methods

galileomartel — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:43:28 +0000

The overall objective of WP2 (Diversity-Aware Learning of Individual Behaviour) is to design and implement, from mobile sensor and app data, new algorithms to achieve diversity-aware individual routine learning, and diversity-aware user category learning. In other words, the learning methods in WP2 provide the situational context of users of the diversity-aware, mobile WeNet platform. The…

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D9.2 A preliminary guideline concerning privacy-standards for WeNet

margfmartel16 — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:59:15 +0000

The GDPR asks for various forms of privacy protection: In many ways its pro- posed privacy by and in design as well as by default approach is not only a legal standard but also a claim for many ethical concepts for data security and privacy protection in the digital world. In this deliverable, we distinguish…

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Beyond the hype: can Artificial Intelligence be ethical?

margfmartel16 — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 06:30:00 +0000

To save or not to save the ladybird? That is the question. In the same room there are a cute red ladybug and a super-technological Roomba, the robot vacuum cleaner that is revolutionizing the way people do housework. On the one hand, a living being that, although small, still remains a living being (besides playing…

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ETHICAL FRAMEWORK OF DIVERSITY IN WENET

margfmartel16 — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 07:00:49 +0000

DIVERSITY is an integral part of our daily lives. We are diverse in our behavior, looks, cultural and social backgrounds, beliefs, religious affiliations, political opinions, and more. While diversity can be beneficial to human interaction, it can also be irritating and cause anxiety among humans. This is attributed to the fact that diversity implies different norms, cultures, and knowledge paradigms. This dilemma of diversity requires a cautious treatment of diversity in technological applications.

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ETHICAL FRAMEWORK OF DIVERSITY IN WENET (SUMMARY OF DELIVERABLE 9.1)

margfmartel16 — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:06:34 +0000

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How to ensure a democratic use of information technology systems?

margfmartel16 — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 15:14:24 +0000

Dr. Jessica Heesen, head of the research focus Media Ethics and Information Technology at the International Center for Ethics in the Sciences (IZEW) of the University of Tübingen, presented WeNet platform as an example of independent platform to improve social interactions. She sheds light on ethical questions about freedom of expression in social media and on…

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A World Café on Data Protection

margfmartel16 — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 08:22:23 +0000

During the WeNet project meeting in Barcelona on October 2-4 2019, WeNet project’s partners discussed data protection in a “World Café“. Building on the idea that the most important conversations at conferences happen during the coffee breaks, the “World Café”method provides an informal environment for a structured conversational process inspired by the talks people have…

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