Explanipedia

Risk of Linked Census Data to Transgender Youth Open

Abraham D. Flaxman, Os Keyes · 2025

Geography Sociology Medicine

Every ten years, the United States Census Bureau collects data on all people living in the US, including information on age, sex, race, ethnicity, and household relationship.We conducted a simulation study to investigate the risk of disclo…

Simulated data for census-scale entity resolution research without privacy restrictions: a large-scale dataset generated by individual-based modeling Open

Beatrix Haddock, Alix Pletcher, Nathaniel Blair-Stahn, Os Keyes, Matt Kappel , et al. · 2024

Computer science Geography Mathematics

Background Entity resolution (ER) is the process of identifying and linking records that refer to the same real-world entity. ER is a fundamental challenge in data science, and a common barrier to ER research and development is that the da…

Stop! In the Name of Flaws: Disentangling Personal Names and Sociodemographic Attributes in NLP Open

Vagrant Gautam, Arjun Subramonian, Anne Lauscher, Os Keyes · 2024

Computer science History Psychology

Personal names simultaneously differentiate individuals and categorize them in ways that are important in a given society. While the natural language processing community has thus associated personal names with sociodemographic characteris…

Simulated data for census-scale entity resolution research without privacy restrictions: a large-scale dataset generated by individual-based modeling Open

Beatrix Haddock, Alix Pletcher, Nathaniel Blair-Stahn, Os Keyes, Matt Kappel , et al. · 2024

Computer science Geography Medicine

Background Entity resolution (ER) is the process of identifying and linking records that refer to the same real-world entity. ER is a fundamental challenge in data science, and a common barrier to ER research and development is that the d…

The Infopolitics of feeling: How race and disability are configured in Emotion Recognition Technology Open

Kerry McInerney, Os Keyes · 2024

Psychology Sociology

In this article, we argue that facial emotion recognition technology (facial ERT) reproduces historical forms of pseudoscience based on the concept of quantifiable and unequally distributed emotional capacity. Drawing on Kyla Schuller’s Bi…

A History of Gender-Affirming Surgery at the University of Michigan: Lessons for Today Open

Cole Roblee, Os Keyes, Gaines Blasdel, Caleb Haley, Megan Lane , et al. · 2024

Medicine Political science Sociology

The University of Michigan has played an important role in advancing gender-affirming surgery programs in the United States. The University of Michigan was home to a little-known gender identity clinic shortly after the opening of the firs…

Automating Autism Open

Os Keyes · 2023

Psychology Sociology Philosophy

In this chapter, Keyes critiques how the use of contemporary Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to ‘identify’ or ‘solve’ the ‘problem’ of autism reproduces the denial of autistic personhood. Keyes’s message is clear: the AI industry…

Inconclusion Open

Os Keyes · 2023

Political science

To close, I review some of the contributions to the book and tie them together to explore not only the forms and sites of queer analysis that they demonstrate, but also the "absent presences"; the sites for queerness left (largely) unexplo…

Artificial Knowing Otherwise Open

Os Keyes, Kathleen Creel · 2022

Computer science

While feminist critiques of AI are increasingly common in the scholarly literature, they are by no means new. Alison Adam’s Artificial Knowing (1998) brought a feminist social and epistemological stance to the analysis of AI, critiquing th…

Feeling fixes: Mess and emotion in algorithmic audits Open

Os Keyes, Jeanie Austin · 2022

Computer science Sociology Psychology

Efforts to address algorithmic harms have gathered particular steam over the last few years. One area of proposed opportunity is the notion of an “algorithmic audit,” specifically an “internal audit,” a process in which a system’s develope…

Automating autism: Disability, discourse, and Artificial Intelligence Open

Os Keyes · 2020

Psychology Computer science

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems shift to interact with new domains and populations, so does AI ethics: a relatively nascent subdiscipline that frequently concerns itself with questions of “fairness” and “accountability.” This fairn…

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN AUDIT: TRACING THE ROOTS AND REPERCUSSIONS OF THEHRT-TRANSGENDER DATABASE Open

Os Keyes, Jeanie Austin, Michael Zimmer · 2020

Political science Sociology Business

Focus on the harms in data collection, distribution, and use in sociotechnical systems tends to reify the idea that research conducted by universities and other public-sector parties is both more ethical and more easily lends itself to aud…

Surveillance, stigma & sociotechnical design for HIV Open

Calvin Liang, Jevan Hutson, Os Keyes · 2020

Sociology Computer science Psychology

Online dating and hookup platforms have fundamentally changed people’s day-to-day practices of sex and love — but exist in tension with older social and medicolegal norms. This is particularly the case for people with HIV, who are frequent…

Surveillance, Stigma & Sociotechnical Design for HIV Open

Calvin Liang, Jevan Hutson, Os Keyes · 2020

Sociology Psychology Computer science

Online dating and hookup platforms have fundamentally changed people's day-to-day practices of sex and love-but exist in tension with older social and medicolegal norms. This is particularly the case for people with HIV, who are frequently…

Agency of Autistic Children in Technology Research—A Critical Literature Review Open

Katta Spiel, Christopher Frauenberger, Os Keyes, Geraldine Fitzpatrick · 2019

Psychology Sociology Political science

Autistic children are increasingly a focus of technology research within the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community. We provide a critical review of the purposes of these technologies and how they discursively conceptualise the agency …

A Mulching Proposal Open

Os Keyes, Jevan Hutson, Meredith Durbin · 2019

Computer science Sociology Political science

he ethical implications of algorithmic systems have been much discussed in both HCI and the broader community of those interested in technology design, development and policy. In this paper, we explore the application of one prominent ethi…

Human-Computer Insurrection: Notes on an Anarchist HCI Open

Os Keyes, Josephine Hoy, Margaret Drouhard · 2019

Computer science Psychology

The HCI community has worked to expand and improve our consideration of the societal implications of our work and our corresponding responsibilities. Despite this increased engagement, HCI continues to lack an explicitly articulated politi…

What is the Point of Fairness? Disability, AI and The Complexity of Justice Open

Cynthia L. Bennett, Os Keyes · 2019

Computer science Sociology Psychology

Work integrating conversations around AI and Disability is vital and valued, particularly when done through a lens of fairness. Yet at the same time, analyzing the ethical implications of AI for disabled people solely through the lens of a…

Reciprocity and Donation Open

Rafał Kocielnik, Os Keyes, Jonathan T. Morgan, Dario Taraborelli, David W. McDonald , et al. · 2018

Business Political science Psychology

Donation-based support for open, peer production projects such as Wikipedia is an important mechanism for preserving their integrity and independence. For this reason understanding donation behavior and incentives is crucial in this contex…

notary - Signing & Verification of R Packages Open

Rich FitzJohn, Os Keyes, Stephanie Locke, Jeroen Ooms, Bob Rudis · 2017

Computer science Engineering Political science

Most of us who work in R just want to Get Stuff Done™. We want a minimum amount of friction between ourselves and the data we need to wrangle, analyze, and visualize. We're focused on solving a problem or gaining insights into a new area o…

Politicians by Country from the English-language Wikipedia Open

Os Keyes · 2017

Computer science Political science Philosophy