Workshop Agonistic Machine Vision Development (part of Salon Doing Ethics)

Workshop – Agonistic Machine Vision Development (16:00-18:00)

A Tangible Approach to Involving Citizens in the Development Phase of Machine Vision Systems for Scan Cars by Laura de Groot.

Laura on the workshop:
For my master thesis (MSc Design for Interaction - TU Delft) I explored opening up the discussion about the acceptability of a machine vision system during the development phase, using the scan car development process in Amsterdam as a use case. Acceptability is explored based on various trade-offs made during this development phase (e.g., Accuracy versus Interpretability and Precision versus Recall).

While these trade-offs at first might seem purely technical, human judgment is involved. This human judgment should not only involve developers but also other stakeholders to legitimize certain decisions made (König and Wenzelburger, 2021). So how could we involve other stakeholders, specifically citizens, to be part of this complex and abstract discussion about acceptability?

The final prototype is a tangible user interface to explore the machine vision model in its complete system. By providing a tangible approach to explaining and interacting with the system, this game improves the understanding of non-experts citizens about machine vision systems and nurtures a deliberative debate.

More about the project can be found here: https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3A60463574-a24e-4fbc-86a5-ea59920295ba?collection=education.

The workshop will be adapted to be able to cater to 20 participants. We will start at 16:00, doors open at 15:45.

After the workshop, you are invited to stay for drinks and some bites and join the evening program with speakers. Please RSVP separately here: https://www.meetup.com/thingscon-salon/events/294499526/

Hope to see you there!