TY - GEN

T1 - Biometric Mirror

T2 - Exploring Ethical Opinions towards Facial Analysis and Automated Decision-Making

AU - Wouters, Niels

AU - Kelly, Ryan

AU - Velloso, Eduardo

AU - Wolf, Katrin

AU - Ferdous, Hasan Shahid

AU - Newn, Joshua

AU - Joukhadar, Zaher

AU - Vetere, Frank

PY - 2019/6/18

Y1 - 2019/6/18

N2 - Facial analysis applications are increasingly being applied to inform decision-making processes. However, as global reports of unfairness emerge, governments, academia and industry have recognized the ethical limitations and societal implications of this technology. Alongside initiatives that aim to formulate ethical frameworks, we believe that the public should be invited to participate in the debate. In this paper, we discuss Biometric Mirror, a case study that explored opinions about the ethics of an emerging technology. The interactive application distinguished demographic and psychometric information from people's facial photos and presented speculative scenarios with potential consequences based on their results. We analyzed the interactions with Biometric Mirror and media reports covering the study. Our findings demonstrate the nature of public opinion about the technology's possibilities, reliability, and privacy implications. Our study indicates an opportunity for case study-based digital ethics research, and we provide practical guidelines for designing future studies.

AB - Facial analysis applications are increasingly being applied to inform decision-making processes. However, as global reports of unfairness emerge, governments, academia and industry have recognized the ethical limitations and societal implications of this technology. Alongside initiatives that aim to formulate ethical frameworks, we believe that the public should be invited to participate in the debate. In this paper, we discuss Biometric Mirror, a case study that explored opinions about the ethics of an emerging technology. The interactive application distinguished demographic and psychometric information from people's facial photos and presented speculative scenarios with potential consequences based on their results. We analyzed the interactions with Biometric Mirror and media reports covering the study. Our findings demonstrate the nature of public opinion about the technology's possibilities, reliability, and privacy implications. Our study indicates an opportunity for case study-based digital ethics research, and we provide practical guidelines for designing future studies.

U2 - 10.1145/3322276.3322304

DO - 10.1145/3322276.3322304

M3 - Other contribution

T3 - DIS 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

ER -