Social sciences
Studying how people, societies, and technology shape one another to create more equitable and effective computing experiences.
Utilizing Social Media for Disaster Relief
Effective coordination of post-disaster relief operations depends critically on the availability of reliable situational information, as well as on citizen participation in the operations. The advent of online social media (e.g., Twitter, Facebook) and the…
Detection of Aggressive Behaviour on Social Media
As the interaction over the web has increased, incidents of aggression and related events like trolling, cyberbullying, flaming, hate speech, etc. too have increased manifold across the globe. While most of these behaviours like bullying…
Making Voicebots Work for Accents
Voice-driven automated agents such as personal assistants are becoming increasingly popular. However, in a multilingual and multi-cultural country like India, deploying such agents to engage with large sections of the population is highly challenging. A…
HollyChat! Domain Specific Conversational Agents
Most of the AI systems today are driven by three key components (i) data (ii) common sense knowledge and (iii) powerful learning algorithms which can harness this data and knowledge to learn task specific meaningful…
Ethnography for Artificial Intelligence
An introduction to ethnography for Artificial Intelligence as well as conversational analysis and its relevance to AI.
Fairness in Machine Learning
Machine learning is increasingly being adopted by various domains: governments, credit, recruiting, advertising, and many others. Fairness and equality are critical aspects, especially in light of anti-discriminatory laws in these domains. Opaque machine learning models:…
