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Effect of Information Presentation on Fairness Perceptions of Machine Learning Predictors

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van Berkel, Niels, Goncalves, Jorge, Russo, Daniel, Hosio, Simo, Skov, Mikael B.·2021·Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The uptake of artificial intelligence-based applications raises concerns about the fairness and transparency of AI behaviour. Consequently, the Computer Science community calls for the involvement of the general public in the design and evaluation of AI systems. Assessing the fairness of individual predictors is an essential step in the development of equitable algorithms. In this study, we evaluate the effect of two common visualisation techniques (text-based and scatterplot) and the display of the outcome information (i.e., ground-truth) on the perceived fairness of predictors. Our results from an online crowdsourcing study (N = 80) show that the chosen visualisation technique significantly alters people’s fairness perception and that the presented scenario, as well as the participant’s gender and past education, influence perceived fairness. Based on these results we draw recommendations for future work that seeks to involve non-experts in AI fairness evaluations.

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  • Tasks that involve inherent uncertainty are often those where humans tend to rely on AI systems for advice, such as loan approval, recidivism prediction, house price estimation, and student admission.

    “Tasks that involve inherent uncertainty are often those where humans tend to rely on AI systems for advice, such as loan approval [27, 34, 124], recidivism prediction [31, 47, 86], house price estimation [2, 13, 25], and student admission [13, 24].”

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Authors
van Berkel, N., Goncalves, J., Russo, D., Hosio, S., & Skov, M. B.
Affiliations
  • Department of Computer Science Aalborg University, Denmark
  • School of Computing and Information Systems The University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Aalborg University (DK)
  • University of Oulu (FI)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher
ACM
Published
2021-05-06
Pages
1-13
OpenAlex
W3160735296
Cited by
84
References
61
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 1
FWCI
14.01
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (publishedVersion)
  • VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion)
  • VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Oulun Yliopisto (318930)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Data Visualization and Analytics
Keywords
algorithmic fairness, perceived fairness, machine learning predictors, visualization techniques, AI transparency, gender differences

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