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Beyond the "Moral Machine" (vergeben) |
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Die am MIT betriebene "Moral Machine" (http://moralmachine.mit.edu/) ist eine Plattform zur publikumswirksamen Diskussion ethischer Dilemmata in der IKT, z.B. im Kontext von autonomen Fahrzeugen. Im Rahmen des Projekts PANDORA (https://cosy.cs.univie.ac.at/research/projects/project/271/) werden verwandte Fragestellungen vor dem erweiterten Horizont der langfristigen gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung und im Hinblick auf das zugrundeliegende Menschenbild erforscht, um so aus der Disziplin der Informatik heraus den Diskurs über eine nachhaltige IKT aktiv zu gestalten. In dieser Arbeit soll, basierend auf einer detaillierten Analyse der Moral Machine, hierzu eine web-basierte Plattform entstehen, die deren Konzept im Hinblick auf Fragestellungen aus der philosophischen Anthropologie erweitert. |
| If you're interested, please contact Peter Reichl (peter.reichl@univie.ac.at) and describe why you are interested in the project and your related technical and philosophical experience. |
"Breaking up with Online Dating" - What is wrong with Online Dating and how to fix it - might be available |
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Online dating is a pervasive mass phenomenon of computer-aided mediation of intimate relationships and human sexuality. Users are offered a low-threshold opportunity to make initial contacts and the technology has the potential for emancipatory empowerment. However, online dating has a variety of questionable dimensions, implications and side effects, such as discriminatory matching algorithms, chat bot scam or sexual harassment. Your task in this project is three-fold: (1) After an initial literature research, (2) conduct user research among users of online dating platforms and investigate their lived experiences with this sociotechnical system and how their experiences relate to their pursuit of intimate relationships. (3) Formulate implications for design of technology that supports users in forming intimate relationships, create and evaluate a prototype that supports the formation of intimate relationships. Please note that this topic requires good command of human-centered design approaches as taught in related courses (VU Human-Computer Interaction, VU Cooperative Systems). Further reading (available via u:access): |
| If you're interested, please contact Christian Löw (christian.loew@univie.ac.at) and Albert Rafetseder (albert.rafetseder@univie.ac.at). |
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Federated Online Social Network Monitoring - available |
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Currently, the Mastodon network - with its 3 Million accounts distributed over +3000 servers - is widely regarded as one of the most successful alternative online social network projects yet. Since its inception, the network keeps evolving rapidly, and its decentralized nature poses novel challenges to any statistical network health analysis. Your task is to:
Network health monitoring is vital and needs to be done with ethical considerations in mind. And a thriving online social network that does not want to take money from surveillance capitalists needs at least free health care plan. Further reading: https://fediverse.party/en/mastodon Further watching: https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-857362-die_rosarote_brille_des_fediverse |
| If you're interested, please contact Paul Fuxjäger (paul.fuxjaeger(at)univie.ac.at). |
An IoT Retrofitting Proof of Concept - available |
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Household appliances are made to last longer than network or security standards. Most offer no support for network based communication and remote management, but provide serial ports for maintenance. Your task is to:
Necessary hardware and access to a soldering station may be provided to you if needed and possible given current COVID-regulations. |
| If you're interested, please contact Kaspar Lebloch (kaspar.lebloch@univie.ac.at) |