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SUMMARY:New projects in human-data interaction - Matthew Chalmers (Univers
 ity of Glasgow)
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CONTACT:Marco Caballero
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThis talk will detail two projects:\n\nThe first is
  an EPSRC ‘Network Plus’ on human-data interaction\, related to system
 s and practices that allow people to understand and have useful agency wit
 h regard to what happens with their data — especially as it gets shared 
 with and used by others. I’ll lead it\, with co-investigators Ewa Luger 
 (U. Edinburgh)\, Atau Tanaka (Goldsmiths)\, Hamed Haddadi (Imperial Colleg
 e London) & Elvira Perez Vallejos (U. Nottingham). The project aims to gui
 de the realisation of system design principles that are productive\, and y
 et fit with the ethics and values acceptable to wider society.  It will (a
 ) develop and sustain a collaborative\, cross-sectoral community under the
  banner of Human Data Interaction\, (b) develop a portfolio of system desi
 gn projects addressing underexplored aspects of the DE (c) create cross-se
 ctoral interdisciplinary synthesis of research under the HDI banner (d) co
 nceptually develop and flesh-out the HDI framework\, (e) create a suite of
  policy and public-facing case studies\, papers\, prototypes and education
 al materials\, and (f) develop a set of core guidelines intended to inform
  the design of human-facing data-driven systems. It’s £1M… but we wil
 l give out 2/3 of that as we fund other people to do HDI research projects
  over the next 3 years\, ranging from £50K to £2500.\n\nThe second is a 
 much smaller project that is starting up later in the summer: ethical desi
 gn of apps for assessing mental health. We will run a modified version of 
 the experiment reported in a 2017 paper by Boukhechba et al.. They modelle
 d locations visited\, SMS usage\, and phone calls\, in a way that was comp
 utationally simple and yet predicted social anxiety levels quite effective
 ly. They used the traditional approach of centralised data collection\, an
 d informed consent given in advance. Our aim is to explore an ongoing proc
 ess combining data collection on phones\, exploratory data analysis that s
 pans participants’ phones and researchers’ computers\, and participant
 s’ ongoing consent for that exploration. We will explore design choices 
 such as: should the categories\, coefficients and other model features be 
 hidden within the app\, or shown to participants?  The latter would mean t
 hat even participants don’t see direct assessments of their health\, thu
 s reducing ethical concerns around health intervention — but perhaps dec
 reasing participants’ interest in the app. How can we make this modellin
 g legible to participants\, and support agency and negotiability with rega
 rd to our use of their data? This project is a collaboration with NHS Nati
 onal Services Scotland\, the Scottish Government eHealth Department\, and 
 Glasgow University’s Student Support and Wellbeing service.\n\nBio: Matt
 hew Chalmers is a professor in the School of Computing Science at the Univ
 ersity of Glasgow\, UK. His work ‘borrows' from philosophy\, biology and
  other disciplines in order to feed into the design and theory of computer
  systems\, especially data visualisation and analytics\, data ethics and e
 thical systems design\, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. His backgroun
 d is in Computer Science: a BSc (Hons) at U. Edinburgh\, then a PhD at U. 
 East Anglia in ray tracing and object-oriented toolkits for distributed me
 mory multiprocessors. He was an intern at Xerox PARC before starting work 
 as a researcher in Cambridge at Xerox EuroPARC\, where he worked on inform
 ation visualisation and early ubicomp systems\, e.g. BirdDog\, Xerox’ fi
 rst Active Badge system. He left Xerox to start up an information visualis
 ation group at UBS Ubilab\, in Zürich\, then had a brief fellowship at U.
  Hokkaido\, Japan\, before starting at U. Glasgow in 1999. He led an EPSRC
  programme grant\, A Population Approach to Ubicomp Systems Design\, advan
 cing stochastic models of software structure/use in large-scale deployment
 s. Previously\, the Contextual Software EPSRC project pioneered ‘mass pa
 rticipation’ in the design of ubicomp systems—one app gathered >400\,0
 00 users. Other past RCUK grants include the Equator IRC (PI\, GR/N15986/0
 1)\, leading the theory work and Equator’s largest project\, City. He is
  or has been associate editor for the journals PACM IMWUT\, Information Vi
 sualization\, Pervasive and Mobile Computing\, and BMC Bioinformatics\, an
 d he’s done… quite a lot of conference committee work. He was leader o
 f a delegation funded by the British Embassy to represent British HCI to J
 apan in 2008\, and in 2010 organised a JSPS/Embassy–funded return visit 
 by a Japanese delegation. He was one of the authors of the UK BCS/UKCRC Gr
 and Challenge on ubiquitous computing\, one of the panelists at the 'HCI 2
 020’ event in Valencia\, and a VIP Guest at Microsoft TechFest. He was o
 nce the coach for (and a player in) Cambridge University Volleyball Club m
 en’s first team\, and coach for the club’s women’s first team. \n\nh
 ttp://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~matthew
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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