CS 5/692, Winter 2020

January 13 / Week 2

Human Subjects Research & Informed Consent

Human subjects research, informed consent, practices, basic principles

Readings

• AGoF: Chapter 1
• WMD: Introduction, Chapter 1
• RCR: Chapters 1 and 3
• Metcalf, J., & Crawford, K. (2016). Where are human subjects in Big Data research? The emerging ethics divide. Big Data & Society, 3(1).
• Hovy, D., & Spruit, L. S. (2016). The Social Impact of Natural Language Processing. In Proc. 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) pp. 591–598. Berlin, Germany.

Optional

• Metcalf, J. (2017) “The study has been approved by the IRB”: Gayface AI, research hype and the pervasive data ethics gap Medium Post, 11/30/2017