Policy Sandboxing: Empathy As An Enabler Towards Inclusive Policy-Making

Digitally-supported participatory methods are often used in policy-making to develop inclusive policies by collecting and integrating citizen's opinions. However, these methods fail to capture the complexity and nuances in citizen's needs, i.e., citizens are generally unaware of other's needs, perspectives, and experiences. Consequently, policies developed with this underlying gap tend to overlook the alignment of … Continue reading Policy Sandboxing: Empathy As An Enabler Towards Inclusive Policy-Making

EXP-Crowd: Gamified Crowdsourcing for AI Explainability

The spread of AI and black-box machine learning models makes it necessary to explain their behavior. Consequently, the research field of Explainable AI was born. The main objective of an Explainable AI system is to be understood by a human as the final beneficiary of the model. In our research we just published on Frontiers … Continue reading EXP-Crowd: Gamified Crowdsourcing for AI Explainability

Pattern-Based Specification of Crowdsourcing Applications – ICWE 2014 best paper

I'm really proud to announce that our paper "Pattern-Based Specification of Crowdsourcing Applications" has received the BEST PAPER award at ICWE 2014 (International Conference on Web Engineering), held in Toulouse in July 2014. The paper was authored by Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Andrea Mauri, and Riccardo Volonterio. The work addresses the fact that … Continue reading Pattern-Based Specification of Crowdsourcing Applications – ICWE 2014 best paper

Community-based Crowdsourcing – Our paper at WWW2014 SOCM

Today Andrea Mauri presented our paper "Community-based Crowdsourcing" at the SOCM Workshop co-located with the WWW 2014 conference. SOCM is the 2nd International Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Social Machines and is an interesting venue for discussing instrumentation, tooling, and software system aspects of online social network. The full program of the event … Continue reading Community-based Crowdsourcing – Our paper at WWW2014 SOCM