Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (33)

Response to the Government’s ‘Data: A New Direction’ Consultation (2021)
Other
Chen, J., Dove, E., Edwards, L., Koene, A., McAuley, D., Piskopani, A., & Urquhart, L. Response to the Government’s ‘Data: A New Direction’ Consultation

This submission aims to address a selection of questions formulated in the government’s ‘Data: A New Direction’ consultation document by presenting findings and views based primarily on research undertaken by us, although we have also drawn on public... Read More about Response to the Government’s ‘Data: A New Direction’ Consultation.

"It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Zhao, J., Patel, M., Perez Vallejos, E., …Jirotka, M. (2020). "It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies. In IDC '20: Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (121-134). https://doi.org/10.1145/3392063.3394410

Children and young people make extensive and varied use of digital and online technologies, yet issues about how their personal data may be collected and used by online platforms are rarely discussed. Additionally, despite calls to increase awareness... Read More about "It's your private information. it's your life.": young people's views of personal data use by online technologies.

The impact of algorithmic decision-making processes on young people’s well-being (Preprint) (2019)
Working Paper
Perez Vallejos, E., Dowthwaite, L., Creswich, H., Portillo, V., Koene, A., Jirotka, M., …McAuley, D. The impact of algorithmic decision-making processes on young people’s well-being (Preprint)

Background: Algorithms rule the online environments and are essential for performing data processing, filtering, personalisation and other tasks. Research has shown that children and young people make up a significant proportion of Internet users, h... Read More about The impact of algorithmic decision-making processes on young people’s well-being (Preprint).

The Right To Privacy (Article 8) and the Digital Revolution: Written evidence from Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham (RTP0004) (2019)
Other
Chen, J. (2019). The Right To Privacy (Article 8) and the Digital Revolution: Written evidence from Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham (RTP0004)

Horizon1 is a Research Institute at The University of Nottingham and a Research Hub within the RCUK Digital Economy programme2. Horizon brings together researchers from a broad range of disciplines to investigate the opportunities and challenges aris... Read More about The Right To Privacy (Article 8) and the Digital Revolution: Written evidence from Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute, University of Nottingham (RTP0004).

Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges (2017)
Journal Article
Perez Vallejos, E., Koene, A., Carter, C. J., Hunt, D., Woodard, C., Urquhart, L., …Statache, R. (in press). Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges. Philosophy && Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-017-0286-y

This article addresses the general ethical issues of accessing online personal data for research purposes. The authors discuss the practical aspects of online research with a specific case study that illustrates the ethical challenges encountered whe... Read More about Accessing online data for youth mental health research: meeting the ethical challenges.

Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Perez, E., Koene, A., Portillo, V., Dowthwaite, L., & Cano, M. (2017). Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness. In WebSci '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Web Science Conference (247-251). https://doi.org/10.1145/3091478.3091512

This paper explores the policy recommendations made by young people regarding algorithm fairness. It describes a piece of ongoing research developed to bring children and young people to the front line of the debate regarding children's digital right... Read More about Young people's policy recommendations on algorithm fairness.

Algorithmic bias: addressing growing concerns (2017)
Journal Article
Koene, A. (2017). Algorithmic bias: addressing growing concerns. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 36(2), 31-32. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2017.2697080

In the context of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, and with support from its executive director, the author have proposed the development of a new IEEE Standard on Algorithmic Bi... Read More about Algorithmic bias: addressing growing concerns.