{"title":"Fairness of Machine Learning Algorithms for the Black Community","authors":"S. M. A. Kiemde, A. Kora","doi":"10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462194","url":null,"abstract":"This paper seeks to study the limits of the definitions of algorithmic fairness in relation to a protected variable, namely skin color. Discrimination towards the black community have existed for a long time. ML algorithms have only amplified or revealed existing discrimination. AI is a mirror that reflects the reality of our societies. The lack of a universal definition of algorithmic fairness makes it difficult to detect cases of discrimination in machine learning algorithms. We believe that independent or sensitive variables such as skin color are benchmarks that could be used to decide whether or not a decision is fair. We also recommend avoiding the use of proxy data.","PeriodicalId":196560,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129563846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Introduction to the Sociological Imagination and Treadmill of Production in the Age of Emerging Technology","authors":"Soraya Cardenas","doi":"10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462176","url":null,"abstract":"This theoretical article explores the Sociological Imagination as it relates to society in the age of emerging technology. Through the Sociological Imagination (SI), perspective helps provide a varied approach and lens when looking at society and technology. This paper looks through the lens of a female, woman of color and how their personal experiences and expertise as a Sociologist can contribute to the technical community in helping them engage in alternate views through the Sociological Imagination. This paper attempts to introduce the concept of the Sociological Imagination through issues of disparities in marginalized groups and spaces, breaking down biases through a Sociological lens. The Sociological Imagination is then coupled with the introduction of the Treadmill of Production, a Sociological Theory used to describe technology and its effect on society. Together the Sociological Imagination and the Treadmill of Production (TTP) are introduced to provide tools in helping technical scientists interpret the world around them.","PeriodicalId":196560,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133005155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Recommendation Algorithm using Adaptive Aggregation of Binary Ratings","authors":"Bidur Subedi, S. Mavromoustakos","doi":"10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462237","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe a novel application area of recommendation systems; helping people with disabilities find accessible Point-of-Interest (POI) using binary ratings on various accessibility criteria based on crowd-sourced data. We discuss an adaptive aggregation technique based on time fading aggregation for binary rating stream to predict the current state or confidence of each accessibility criteria for POIs. The confidence along with the user profile is used to calculate personalized accessibility score for the POI. The proposed method can be used with other POI recommendation criteria to recommend accessible places to users. We evaluate our model using synthesized datasets of different size that simulate the change of accessibility confidence over time. On comparison of the results with widely used adaptive, as well as non-adaptive aggregation techniques, we found that the proposed technique significantly improves the accuracy.","PeriodicalId":196560,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128790461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Clara Sousa Magalhães, Jalberth Fernandes de Araújo
{"title":"Design Futures For Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Course","authors":"Maria Clara Sousa Magalhães, Jalberth Fernandes de Araújo","doi":"10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462183","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the lack of futures studies for professionals who wish to innovate and create solutions that will bring an economic and social impact, this paper helps the entire university community to prepare and create a desirable future based on Human-Centered Design. The final product meets the expectations of a sustainable world, from the perspective of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The analysis was based on a design futures process, within the realization of interviews with the groups of interest, the evaluation, and treatment of data obtained through them. In addition, there was a debate on alternatives for futures that are not commonly seen, provoking speculation and breaking out of common thought, and the realization of a mini co-creative forum inviting them to create futures through drawings and newspaper headlines, then was possible to investigate the motivation and intentions behind these visions. With the results, statistical and ethnographic studies were made to obtain a future forecast. From the analysis it was possible to create the definition of the Future Intention and future alternatives based on the Future Cone, Polarity Map and finally, creation of a Minimum Viable Future. It was also possible to project future perspectives of the Undergraduate major in Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Campina Grande, PB-Brazil, creating future scenarios of the course and proposing solutions in order to improve everyone’s experience and the technological impact in the Brazilian political-economic scenario.","PeriodicalId":196560,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122659371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"COVID-19 Impacts on Native American Citizens and Tribal Governments","authors":"L. Bruce","doi":"10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462200","url":null,"abstract":"The economic impacts of COVID-19 on the United States economy have been devastating for many Americans, but have been especially damaging for Native Americans, tribal governments, and tribal enterprises. On-reservation Native Americans especially have struggled as their governments lose revenue from casinos and other enterprises while attempting to address social and health needs of their citizens. COVID-19 has forced increased adoption of automation in the workplace that will heavily impact Native Americans, due to their increased exposure to the effects of automation in the leisure, transportation, education, and health industries. This paper highlights the unique position that Native Americans and tribal governments face during COVID-19 economic recovery and beyond as well as policy options tribes can implement to mitigate the looming threat of automation on their tribal citizens.","PeriodicalId":196560,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127596293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Framework on Deep Learning-Based Indoor Child Exploitation Alert System","authors":"Shinthi Tasnim Himi, Sarmistha Sarna Gomasta, Natasha Tanzila Monalisa, Md. Ezharul Islam","doi":"10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462234","url":null,"abstract":"Child violence is one of the most heinous crimes prevailing in our society. Any form of abuse or violence to a child does matter and cannot be overlooked. It affects the mental health of a child so deeply that it influences his later life. So, taking proper measurements for saving every child from any sort of violence is a must. This paper proposes a modified deep learning-based violence detection framework that will be able to detect and alert child exploitation in real-time without any privacy breach. The proposed framework is designed to work indoor, so primarily it can be installed in homes and educational institutions. The mechanism of the system is as such firstly, the surveillance video streams will be optimized using a modified convolutional neural network (CNN). Secondly, a sequence of frames will be passed through CNN for feature extraction and transferred to the long short-term memory (LSTM), which will act as a classifier. A softmax layer also has been introduced for the probabilistic distribution. Finally, the age and activities of a specific person will be detected. If there is any violent activity, an alert will be sent to the guardian through the system. We intend to ensure our proposed framework will be implied for automatic violence detection in a quick and safe approach.","PeriodicalId":196560,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127754620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Á. Torres-Toukoumidis, V. Robles-Bykbaev, Mario Cajamarca-Llivipuma
{"title":"Recycling process through 3D videogame technologies for web platforms in Latin-American context","authors":"Á. Torres-Toukoumidis, V. Robles-Bykbaev, Mario Cajamarca-Llivipuma","doi":"10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462179","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change is a global problem that is gradually beginning to show its relevance for Latin-American context. For this reason, this research has proposed the design of two 3D video games oriented towards recycling. It is worth mentioning that these are the first 2 games made in Ecuador by a university institution that aims to raise awareness of sustainable development among its student population. Under this line, the article seeks to present the technical considerations considered to promote the transversal knowledge and ecological awareness.","PeriodicalId":196560,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132561012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethical Tech Pedagogy for Public Good: A Review of Educational Initiatives and Approaches","authors":"Jason Lajoie, Alexi Orchard, Heather A. Love","doi":"10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462181","url":null,"abstract":"Our research team is conducting a scoping literature review of scholarly and popular publications that address the role of ethics and ethical thinking in relation to engineering education curriculum, professional engineering practices more broadly, and their integration in the tech sector at large. This paper reports on the preliminary results of that review, which so far covers current approaches (i.e. from the last ten years) to cultivating and scaling these principles in academia and industry, and also examines local initiatives that implement some of these ideas in the classroom. We (a) identify recent knowledge and gaps on effective approaches to embedding ethics in engineering curriculum, including pedagogies that mobilize novel collaborative instruments and technologies for engaging the public; and (b) describe current academic approaches to centering ethics and ethical thinking as core elements of training and professional practice at the University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada). In keeping with the 2021 ISTAS “Public Interest Technology” theme, the paper emphasizes efforts underway to train professional and aspiring engineers in North America with the integrated critical thinking skills they need to ethically assess the social and cultural impacts of the technologies they design, develop, and deploy.","PeriodicalId":196560,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134254432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Health Information Seeking Behaviour, Risk Communication, and Mobility During COVID-19","authors":"J. Schoenherr, R. Thomson","doi":"10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462203","url":null,"abstract":"The existence of physical and financial barriers in the provision of healthcare leads to an increasing recognition that alternative sources of information are being used to supplement or replace the advice of healthcare professionals. Internet search engines are a common means to obtain health information. However, information, misinformation, and disinformation are all available concurrently, leaving health information seekers to distinguish these categories of information. Following a review of theories directly and indirectly related to health information-seeking behaviour (HISB), we examine how public announcements made by credible sources (e.g., health professionals and politicians) in varying geographic regions (globally, nationally (Canada), and regionally (New York State) influenced both HISB (represented by Google Searches) and whether this influences human behaviour (represented by Google Mobility Data). Across these analyses, we demonstrate that there are strong correlations between information search behaviour and mobility around the time of public health announcements suggesting that, directly or indirectly, health communication was associated with changes in individual behaviour.","PeriodicalId":196560,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)","volume":"470 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130321818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taiwan’s Entry Quarantine System","authors":"Ryan Wickham","doi":"10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462202","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the COVID-19 automated contact tracking application in Taiwan, known as the Entry Quarantine System. The research conducted is composed of qualitative data analysis from articles and government websites in regard to the implementation of the Entry Quarantine System. The study is organized as the value chain, the working of the technical system, and social-technical legal issues revolving around the system.","PeriodicalId":196560,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125787938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}