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And even when in place, traditional participatory methods often fail to achieve the desired inclusiveness as they fail to address the complexity and challenges that certain marginalised groups may face, hindering their ability to participate as equal partners in the design process. 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We welcome practitioners working in industry and non-profits. We particularly encourage citizens and societal associations interested in the topic of gender and AI to participate. We will make the workshop inclusive, making space for various voices. Every expertise is valuable. REGISTER HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61161ff2504919434501aa0f/1630339631664-PFF77VFY65II1HLI2WNU/Catherine_D%27Ignazio.jpeg Workshop 1: Embodied AI and Gender - Keynote: Catherine D’Ignazio (Data+Feminism Lab, MIT) Catherine D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement. She has run reproductive justice hackathons, designed global news recommendation systems, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. With Rahul Bhargava, she built the platform Databasic.io, a suite of tools and activities to introduce newcomers to data science. Her 2020 book from MIT Press, Data Feminism, co-authored with Lauren Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. Her research at the intersection of technology, design & social justice has been published in the Journal of Peer Production, the Journal of Community Informatics, and the proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI). Her art and design projects have won awards from the Tanne Foundation, Turbulence.org and the Knight Foundation and exhibited at the Venice Biennial and the ICA Boston. D’Ignazio is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also Director of the Data + Feminism Lab which uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial equity, particularly in relation to space and place. Title talk: Data Feminism As data are increasingly mobilized in the service of governments and corporations, their unequal conditions of production, their asymmetrical methods of application, and their unequal effects on both individuals and groups have become increasingly difficult for data scientists--and others who rely on data in their work--to ignore. But it is precisely this power that makes it worth asking: "Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? These are some of the questions that emerge from what we call data feminism, a way of thinking about data science and its communication that is informed by the past several decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought. Illustrating data feminism in action, this talk will show how challenges to the male/female binary can help to challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems; it will explain how an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization; how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems; and why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.” The goal of this talk, as with the project of data feminism, is to model how scholarship can be transformed into action: how feminist thinking can be operationalized in order to imagine more ethical and equitable data practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61161ff2504919434501aa0f/1630340204261-IE9GWZBA9PTKTF59MM7W/Lisa+Mandemaker.jpeg Workshop 1: Embodied AI and Gender - Keynote: Lisa Mandemaker (Design for Debate) Lisa Mandemaker is a speculative designer with a strategic, contextually aware and critical approach to research and practice. She considers design as a tool for debate and crafts (future) narratives through designed artifacts, using these as a form of storytelling to challenge assumptions, question or excite. Making impactful, topical work and creating strong interventions and conversation starters are key elements to her practice. Her work centres on the effects of emerging technology on people and their behaviour. - If there is a new piece of technology arriving, it’s important we don’t just blindly accept it - we really need to think about what it does and means - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61161ff2504919434501aa0f/1632562530798-KORCY4HIN8B9VT5GX173/d700xvar.jpg Workshop 1: Embodied AI and Gender - Keynote: Eduard Fosch-Villaronga ( Leiden University ) Dr. Fosch-Villaronga is an Assistant Professor at the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University (NL) where he investigates legal and regulatory aspects of robot and AI technologies, with a special focus on healthcare. Eduard recently published the book ‘Robots, Healthcare, and the Law. Regulating Automation in Personal Care’ with Routledge and is interested in human-robot interaction, responsible innovation, and the future of law. Eduard is the co-leader of the Ethical, Legal, and Societal Aspects Working Group at the H2020 Cost Action 16116 on Wearable Robots and the Social Responsibility Working Group at the H2020 Cost Action 19121 GoodBrother. Eduard served the European Commission in the Sub-Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI), connected products and other new challenges in product safety to the Consumer Safety Network (CSN) to revise the General Product Safety directive. Previously, he worked as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Researcher under the LEaDing Fellows at eLaw (Jan 2019-Dec 2020). He also was a postdoc at the Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Center at Queen Mary University of London (the UK, 2018) investigating the legal implications of cloud robotics; and at the University of Twente (NL, 2017) as a postdoc, exploring iterative regulatory modes for robot governance. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJD) in Law, Science, and Technology coordinated by the University of Bologna (IT, 2017), an LL.M. from University of Toulouse (FR, 2012), an M.A. from the Autonomous University of Madrid (ES), and an LL.B. from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (CAT, 2011). Eduard is also a qualified lawyer in Spain and his publications are available online Title: On the consequences of missing diversity considerations in the development of algorithms Algorithms can help presume user preferences, sensitive attributes such as race, gender, sexual orientation, and opinions. These opaque methods can predict behaviors for marketing purposes and influence behavior for profit, serving attention economics and reinforcing existing biases such as gender stereotyping. Content moderator tools silencing drag queens online or misgendering users online are examples of how not integrating gender and sex considerations in AI can have adverse consequences for society. Although two international human rights treaties include explicit obligations relating to harmful and wrongful stereotyping, these stereotypes persist online and offline. In this short talk, we identify how inferential analytics may reinforce gender stereotyping and affect marginalized communities in these two cases with the hope that it can shed light on opportunities for addressing these concerns in the context of AI and embodied agents. https://www.dei4eai.com/workshop-2-embodied-ai-and-ableism daily 0.75 2021-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61161ff2504919434501aa0f/1632597641420-FAV9ETWWZNO7IHN8GEGZ/EmbodiedAi%26Ableism.png Workshop 2: Embodied AI and Ableism - Workshop 2: Embodied AI & Ableism Registration deadline: 19 October 2021, any time on Earth Workshop date: 20 October 2021, 14:00 - 17:30 (CET) Location: TU/e campus, Vertigo building, room 5.07 and online In this hybrid workshop, we are going to learn more about ableism in embodied AI. We have two great keynote speakers who will provide their unique vision on the workshop’s theme. In the workshop, we will use methods from critical design to 1) create a hands-on understanding of our current practices and narrative 2) compile a concrete, desirable future scenario, providing practical pointers to implement design processes with diversity, equity, and inclusion in mind. REGISTER HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61161ff2504919434501aa0f/1632904773507-PMCWF8J0F6EZ8FXNF5E6/IMG_0945.JPG Workshop 2: Embodied AI and Ableism - Make it stand out Kristen Parisi, Disability Representation Expert & Writer Kristen is an award-winning disability expert and writer based in Washington, DC. She spent the last decade working executing tech campaigns, from machine learning software to smartphones. In 2014, Kristen shifted focus to disability representation in media, hoping to examine the origins of her internalized ableism. In addition to Kristen's current role as a writer at a consulting firm, she is a fierce advocate for disability inclusion in newsrooms. A paraplegic since age five, Kristen hopes non-disabled people can recognize their unconscious ableism and change the way they view and interact with disabled peers. http://kristenparisi.net https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61161ff2504919434501aa0f/1632907129150-8BQUIYVJ6TE4CLA1IQ6I/TikTik_03.jpg Workshop 2: Embodied AI and Ableism - Make it stand out Simon Dogger, inventive, inclusive design Simon Dogger is a designer with a whole new point of view. He graduated the Design Academy Eindhoven as a blind designer, with an ability to listen and feel, and a strong drive to regain his independence. Not seeing himself as limited, but as someone who takes in information differently, he sets out to explore more inclusive forms of communication. His concepts and designs combine visual, auditory and sensory means to improve the quality of life. Not only for the visually impaired, but for all people who could benefit from self-empowering, intuitive tools that help them connect with others and their surroundings. https://www.simondogger.nl https://www.dei4eai.com/workshop-3-embodied-ai-and-race daily 0.75 2021-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61161ff2504919434501aa0f/1632598101179-9M5H682AWKHSE9TVPJQT/EmbodiedAi%26Race.png Workshop 3: Embodied AI and Race - Workshop 3: Embodied AI & Race Registration deadline: 4 November 2021, any time on Earth Workshop date: 5 November 2021, time tbd Location: TU/e campus and online More information is coming soon! https://www.dei4eai.com/workshop-4-embodied-ai-and-dei-methods daily 0.75 2021-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61161ff2504919434501aa0f/1632598327264-IRVW2PSFRZ9W0E2DZKB6/EmbodiedAI%26DEIMethods.png Workshop 4: Embodied AI and DEI Methods - Workshop 4: Embodied AI & DEI Methods Registration deadline: 18 November 2021, any time on Earth Workshop date: 19 November 2021, 14:00 - 17:00 CET Location: Online In our previous workshops, we learned and discussed about gender, race, ableism and their implications in the design of embodied AI. Thanks to the inspiring contribution of our speakers and participants from different countries and disciplines, we shed a light on the implications of our design actions on marginalized groups. In this fourth and last workshop we want to further discuss the designers’ responsibilities within the design of Embodied AI. REGISTER HERE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61161ff2504919434501aa0f/02f90a7f-4fb9-46e0-b9bf-2c3ef4be0065/LonnekevanKampenI.jpeg Workshop 4: Embodied AI and DEI Methods - Make it stand out Lonneke van Kampen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61161ff2504919434501aa0f/65b2448e-7fba-4c8f-a7fc-b2846201f936/laura-forlano_171108_74_2.jpeg Workshop 4: Embodied AI and DEI Methods - Make it stand out Prof. dr. 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