Black Mirror
Imagine a black mirror reality where facial recognition is used on campuses to detect “disengaged” students and automatically alert professors.
The INFO 200 concept that best captures the ethical concern here.
What is surveillance?
A field that uses algorithms, procedures, and processes to examine large amounts of data to uncover hidden patterns & generate insights.
What is data science?
The four values in the acronym of IDEA for the Information School
What is Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Access & Sovereignty?
User Interface acronym
What is UI?
Help users have a good experience
What is the main goal of UX design?
In a 2024 New York Times article, AI Bias in Healthcare, AI tools used in hospitals were found to give lower-risk scores to Black patients compared to white patients with the same symptoms.
The INFO 200 and Black Mirror concept, often explored through facial recognition and data ethics, that illustrates this.
What is algorithmic bias?
The measure you get when you add up a set of numbers and then divide by how many numbers there are.
What is mean?
Ensuring that everyone has access to the resources & opportunities they need to achieve success regardless of background.
What is equity?
The main purpose of a user interface in a software application.
What is allowing users to interact with the system?
Understanding the problem, interviewing clients, designing prototypes
What are the 3 basic steps of UX?
Like in Black Mirror, suppose a dating app uses AI to predict “compatibility” based on biometric data like voice pitch, facial symmetry, and heartbeat.
The social implication from INFO 200 that would most likely arise.
What is discriminatory profiling?
When a data set is arranged in ascending order, the value that lies in the exact middle (or the average of the two middle values if the count is even).
What is median?
Joy Buolamwini created this project in order to prove her claims about the biases in algorithms.
What is Aspire Mirror?
The principle most related in keeping a UI simple and easy to use.
What is Minimalism (UI design principle focused on keeping interfaces simple, uncluttered, and easy to use, by showing only what’s necessary and removing distractions)
UI design focuses on the look and feel of how a user interacts with a product, while UX focuses on the overall experience of using a product.
What’s the difference between UI and UX?
In INFO 200, we learned that digital tools often ignore how race, gender, class, and ability intersect.
The term in Black Mirror describes this concept and why algorithms may fail those who live at these crossroads.
What is intersectionality?
In supervised learning, this is what you are trying to predict based on the input data.
What is a dependent variable?
The Coast Salish people are acknowledged as the original inhabitants of the land occupied by the University of Washington
Who are the Suquamish, Tulalip, and Muckleshoot nations?
Using high-contrast colors, readable fonts, and clear labels to help all users, including those with disabilities.
What is accessibility?
Prototyping is creating a rough draft of a digital product. Test ideas early, spot problems sooner, get feedback fast, improve communication, encourage experimentation
Why is prototyping an important part of UX?
In the 2022 New York Times article He Was Fired by a Machine, warehouse workers are automatically terminated by algorithmic systems without human input, something that feels straight out of a Black Mirror episode.
The INFO 200 concept that best represents this real-world story.
What is algorithmic governance or lack of transparency?
This type of algorithm helps computers recognize patterns and improve their performance on a task without being explicitly programmed.
What is machine learning?
This intellectual had work, specifically about the “outsider within”, that helped inspire Joy Buolamwini about how she saw coded bias.
Who is Patricia Hill Collins
Separating UI components into smaller parts instead of building one big interface
What is breaking the UI into smaller components makes the code easier to manage, reuse, and test?
What is the most important feature to work on based on the following research interview? (INTERVIEW PROMPT)
Easing the navigation menu/bar