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Description:: Over the past decade as smartphones and wearable tracking devices have grown in popularity, more individuals have begun collecting their own health and behavioral data. Innovations in sensor technology now allow individuals to continuously collect data over long periods of time with minimal effort. As a result, more data has...
Keyword:: patient-generated data, human-computer interaction, mental health, personal informatics, human-data interaction, and self-tracking
Subject:: Computer science and Communication
Creator:: Ng, Ada
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 10/07/2021
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Description:: This dissertation asks how researchers can create more equitable algorithmic systems. Ultimately, this thesis explores methods and implications of representing subjects of analysis in the design and evaluation of algorithmic systems. I also unpack how algorithmic tools measure and quantify human behavior, giving heed to the potential impacts of these...
Keyword:: algorithms, machine learning, human-computer interaction, social discrimination, age discrimination, and algorithmic fairness
Subject:: Information science, Social research, and Computer science
Creator:: Díaz, Mark
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_762101 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15226

Description:: Millions of people freelance in the growing online gig economy, making it important to advance pay equity and support freelancers in earning their livelihoods online. Compared to offline employment, freelancing introduces at least two challenges that threaten freelancers’ ability to secure work and the equitability of the gig economy: 1)...
Keyword:: equity, gender, human-computer interaction, freelancing, feedback, and online gig economy
Subject:: Computer science and Communication
Creator:: Foong, Eureka
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15400 and etdadmin_upload_780786

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