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View article: Computing for Community-Based Economies: A Sociotechnical Ecosystem for Democratic, Egalitarian and Sustainable Futures
Computing for Community-Based Economies: A Sociotechnical Ecosystem for Democratic, Egalitarian and Sustainable Futures Open
Automation and industrial mass production, particularly in sectors with low wages, have harmful consequences that contribute to widening wealth disparities, excessive pollution, and worsened working conditions. Coupled with a mass consumpt…
View article: Making exploratory search engines using qualitative case studies: a mixed method implementation using interviews with Detroit Artisans
Making exploratory search engines using qualitative case studies: a mixed method implementation using interviews with Detroit Artisans Open
Search engine algorithms are increasingly subjects of critique, with evidence indicating their role in driving polarization, exclusion, and algorithmic social harms. Many proposed solutions take a top-down approach, with experts proposing …
View article: Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow
Computational reparations as generative justice: Decolonial transitions to unalienated circular value flow Open
The Latin roots of the word reparations are “re” (again) plus “parere” which means “to give birth to, bring into being, produce”. Together they mean “to make generative once again”. In this sense, the extraction processes that cause labor …
View article: Extrapolating significance of text-based autonomous vehicle scenarios to multimedia scenarios and implications for user-centered design
Extrapolating significance of text-based autonomous vehicle scenarios to multimedia scenarios and implications for user-centered design Open
Extrapolation from low-fidelity design iterations is especially critical in HRI. An initial proposal for low-fidelity to higher fidelity extrapolation is developed using insights from cognitive multimedia learning theory to account for the…
View article: Authente-Kente - Enabling Authentication for Artisanal Economies with Deep Learning
Authente-Kente - Enabling Authentication for Artisanal Economies with Deep Learning Open
The economy for artisanal products such as Navajo rugs or Pashmina shawls are often threatened by mass-produced fakes. We propose the use of AI-based authentication as one part of a larger system that would replace extractive economies wit…
View article: AI for a Generative Economy: The Role of Intelligent Systems in Sustaining Unalienated Labor, Environment, and Society
AI for a Generative Economy: The Role of Intelligent Systems in Sustaining Unalienated Labor, Environment, and Society Open
Extractive economies pull value from a system without restoring it. Unsustainable extraction of ecological value includes over-fishing, clear-cut logging, etc. Extraction of labor value is similarly objectionable: assembly line jobs for ex…
View article: Automation for the Artisanal Economy: Enhancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Crafting Professions with Human-Machine Collaboration
Automation for the Artisanal Economy: Enhancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Crafting Professions with Human-Machine Collaboration Open
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to eliminate millions of jobs, from finance to truck driving. But artisanal products—(e.g. handmade textiles) are valued precisely because of their human origins, and thus have some inherent “immunity…