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AI assistants are increasingly integrated into older adults' daily lives, offering new opportunities for social support and accessibility while raising important questions about privacy, autonomy, and trust. As these systems become embedded…

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With growing awareness of long-term health and wellness, everyday body management has become a widespread practice. Social media platforms and health-related applications offer abundant information for those pursuing healthier lifestyles…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Na Li , Chuhao Wu , Hongyang Zhou , Huiran Yi , Xuefei Wang , Jie Cai , Xinyi Fu , John Carroll

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) show enormous potential for advancing personalized medicine. However, BCIs also introduce new avenues for cyber-attacks or security compromises. In this article, we analyze the problem and make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Tyler Schroder , Renee Sirbu , Sohee Park , Jessica Morley , Sam Street , Luciano Floridi

Wearable devices generate different types of physiological data about the individuals. These data can provide valuable insights for medical researchers and clinicians that cannot be availed through traditional measures. Researchers have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Munshi Saifuzzaman , Tajkia Nuri Ananna , Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury , Md Sadek Ferdous , Farida Chowdhury

Large-scale human mobility datasets play increasingly critical roles in many algorithmic systems, business processes and policy decisions. Unfortunately there has been little focus on understanding bias and other fundamental shortcomings of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Katinka den Nijs , Elisa Omodei , Vedran Sekara

Health-related mobile applications are known as eHealth apps. These apps make people more aware of their health, help during critical situations, provide home-based disease management, and monitor/support personalized care through…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Md. Shamsujjoha , John Grundy , Li Li , Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Qinghua Lu

Cognitive biases have been studied in psychology, sociology, and behavioral economics for decades. Traditionally, they have been considered a negative human trait that leads to inferior decision-making, reinforcement of stereotypes, or can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Markus Schedl , Oleg Lesota , Stefan Brandl , Mohammad Lotfi , Gustavo Junior Escobedo Ticona , Shahed Masoudian

Choice decisions made by users of online applications can suffer from biases due to the users' level of engagement. For instance, low engagement users may make random choices with no concern for the quality of items offered. This biased…

Applications · Statistics 2016-08-30 Zhengli Wang , Tauhid Zaman

Individuals lack oversight over systems that process their data. This can lead to discrimination and hidden biases that are hard to uncover. Recent data protection legislation tries to tackle these issues, but it is inadequate. It does not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Valentin Zieglmeier , Alexander Pretschner

Existing facial analysis systems have been shown to yield biased results against certain demographic subgroups. Due to its impact on society, it has become imperative to ensure that these systems do not discriminate based on gender,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Richa Singh , Puspita Majumdar , Surbhi Mittal , Mayank Vatsa

Current AI systems minimize risk by enforcing ideological neutrality, yet this may introduce automation bias by suppressing cognitive engagement in human decision-making. We conducted randomized trials with 2,500 participants to test…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Shiyang Lai , Junsol Kim , Nadav Kunievsky , Yujin Potter , James Evans

In this paper, our aim is to propose a model that helps in the efficient use of an information system by users, within the organization represented by the IS, in order to resolve their decisional problems. In other words we want to aid the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Babajide Afolabi , Odile Thiery

Artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved considerably in the last few years. While applications of AI is now becoming more common in fields like retail and marketing, application of AI in solving problems related to developing countries is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Anusua Trivedi , Sumit Mukherjee , Edmund Tse , Anne Ewing , Juan Lavista Ferres

The fundamental goal of Information Retrieval (IR) systems lies in their capacity to effectively satisfy human information needs - a challenge that encompasses not just the technical delivery of information, but the nuanced understanding of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yashar Moshfeghi , Niall McGuire

Process-Aware Information Systems (PAIS) support organizations in managing and automating their processes. A full automation of processes is in particular industries, such as service-oriented markets, not practicable. The integration of…

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare, including in caring for cancer survivors, has gained significant interest. However, gaps remain in our understanding of how such AI systems can provide care, especially for ethnic and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Elaine Kong , Kuo-Ting , Huang , Aakash Gautam

While decision makers have begun to employ machine learning, machine learning models may make predictions that bias against certain demographic groups. Semi-automated bias detection tools often present reports of automatically-detected…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Po-Ming Law , Sana Malik , Fan Du , Moumita Sinha

While recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of research papers on recommender system (RS), most of the papers focus on inventing machine learning models to better fit user behavior data. However, user behavior data is observational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jiawei Chen , Hande Dong , Xiang Wang , Fuli Feng , Meng Wang , Xiangnan He

Predictive algorithms have a powerful potential to offer benefits in areas as varied as medicine or education. However, these algorithms and the data they use are built by humans, consequently, they can inherit the bias and prejudices…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Cristina Manresa-Yee , Silvia Ramis

Fairness and bias are crucial concepts in artificial intelligence, yet they are relatively ignored in machine learning applications in clinical psychiatry. We computed fairness metrics and present bias mitigation strategies using a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Pablo Mosteiro , Jesse Kuiper , Judith Masthoff , Floortje Scheepers , Marco Spruit