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Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Milligan, G., Harvey, J., Dowthwaite, L., Vallejos, E. P., Nica-Avram, G., & Goulding, J. (2023). Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data. In Proceedings: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data: Dec 15 - Dec 18, 2023 Sorrento, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData59044.2023.10386740

Life satisfaction significantly contributes to wellbe-ing and is linked to positive outcomes for individual people and society more broadly. However, previous research demonstrates that many factors contribute to the life satisfaction of an individua... Read More about Assessing relative contribution of Environmental, Behavioural and Social factors on Life Satisfaction via mobile app data.

An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Perez Vallejos, E., Portillo, V., Patel, M., Zhao, J., & Creswick, H. (2023). An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing. In TAS ‘23: Proceedings of The First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems 11-12 July 2023 Edinburgh, UK. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3599708

Internet users often report feelings of stress, anxiety, and a lack of control, often related to uncertainty about the use of algorithms and autonomous systems (AS) behind what they encounter. This may lead to a loss of trust in the services, content... Read More about An Exploration of how Trust Online Relates to Psychological and Subjective Wellbeing.

A Practical Taxonomy of TAS-related Usecase Scenarios (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Masters, P., Young, V., Chamberlain, A., Weerawardhana, S., McKenna, P. E., Lu, Y., …Moreau, L. (2023). A Practical Taxonomy of TAS-related Usecase Scenarios. In TAS '23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3597523

This paper proposes a taxonomy of experimental usecase scenarios to facilitate research into trustworthy autonomous systems (TAS). Unable to identify an open-access repository of usecases to support our research, the project team embarked on developm... Read More about A Practical Taxonomy of TAS-related Usecase Scenarios.

TAME Pain: Trustworthy AssessMEnt of Pain from Speech and Audio for the Empowerment of Patients (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Schneiders, E., Williams, J., Farahi, A., Seabrooke, T., Vigneswaran, G., Bautista, J. R., …Piskopani, A. M. (2023). TAME Pain: Trustworthy AssessMEnt of Pain from Speech and Audio for the Empowerment of Patients. In TAS'23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3597513

Precise pain assessment is crucial for medical professionals to provide appropriate treatment. However, not every patient can verbalise the experienced pain for various reasons (e.g., speech disorders or language barriers). In these cases, medical pr... Read More about TAME Pain: Trustworthy AssessMEnt of Pain from Speech and Audio for the Empowerment of Patients.

Assessing the Value Orientations of Contributors to Virtual Citizen Science Projects (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Jeong, E. (., Jackson, C., Dowthwaite, L., Ahmad, T., & Trouille, L. (2023). Assessing the Value Orientations of Contributors to Virtual Citizen Science Projects. In C&T '23: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (191-202). https://doi.org/10.1145/3593743.3593782

Like other crowdsourcing communities, e.g., Wikipedia, citizen science projects struggle to attract and retain long-term contributors. Long-term contributors are critical to the success of many projects; research about motivational drivers has attrac... Read More about Assessing the Value Orientations of Contributors to Virtual Citizen Science Projects.

Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Perez Vallejos, E., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Patel, M., & Zhao, J. (2020). Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust. In Paradigm Shifts in ICT Ethics: Proceedings of the ETHICOMP 2020 18th International Conference on the Ethical and Social Impacts of ICT (26-28)

This paper describes the first stage of the ongoing development of two scales to measure online wellbeing and trust, based on the results of a series of workshops with younger and older adults. The first, the Online Wellbeing Scale includes subscales... Read More about Developing a measure of online wellbeing and user trust.

"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.

UnBias Youth Juries (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Creswick, H., Portillo, V., Cano, M., Vallejos, E. P., Koene, A., & Patel, M. (2018). UnBias Youth Juries. In SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society (276-280). https://doi.org/10.1145/3217804.3217928

The UnBias Youth Juries engage young people in discussion of issues that affect their online lives, especially in relation to algorithms, through the presentation of scenarios and prompts. Results from the first wave of juries, held in February 2017,... Read More about UnBias Youth Juries.

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.

Fame or function? How webcomic artists choose where to share (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Houghton, R., & Mortier, R. (2015). Fame or function? How webcomic artists choose where to share. In Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2015 (355-362). https://doi.org/10.1201/b18293

Online social networks are complex systems that are traditionally discussed in several different ways, often revolving around either the technology and design of the platforms themselves, or the behaviour and social interactions of the communities th... Read More about Fame or function? How webcomic artists choose where to share.