I’m happy to announce that I’m co-editing with Bruce Ferwerda a so-called research topic in Frontiers in Big Data (Recommender Systems) on Human Issues in Recommender Systems.

For more information, see https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/23412/human-issues-in-recommender-systems.

What an honor that my recent work with Andrés Ferraro is featured as an example for research on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion at Utrecht University’s website. There is also a sneak peek to an upcoming work with Johanna Devaney.

I am very happy that our CHIIR paper Break the Loop: Gender Imbalance in Music Recommenders with Andrés Ferraro and Xavier Serra received a lot of media attention.

It will take a while until I can integrate all the media articles (that I am aware of) in my website.
Here some links (articles in various languages):

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Music recommendation algorithms are unfair to female artists, but we can change that.

Article written by: Christine Bauer, Utrecht University and Andrés Ferraro, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Andrés Ferraro will present our joint paper at CHIIR 2021. In the paper with the title Break the Loop: Gender Imbalance in Music Recommenders, we investigate the imbalance in music recommendations with respect to the artists gender. We propose a simple re-ranking approach to mitigate the problem and show in a simulation of feedback loops how the gender (im-)balances evolves over time.

The recording of the panel on gender bias and discrimination in AI (in German) at the VUT Indie Days 2020 (as part of c/o pop xoxo) last week is now also available on YouTube.

I am looking forward to join the panel on gender bias and discrimination in AI at the VUT Indie Days 2020 tomorrow. The panel is scheduled for 13:15 CEST and will be streamed on c/o pop xoxo in channel 1. Although originally planned to be held in English, the discussion will be in German. Maybe a good reason to brush up your German skills ;-)