Music

What is fair? The artists' perspective on music recommenders
Invited talk at the Music and Audio Research lab—a research school within New York University.
Christine Bauer
6 April 2022
Project
What is fair? The artists' perspective on music recommenders
Keynote: Celebrating an engaged music community and breaking the bias
Keynote at Codarts Rotterdam—International Women’s Day 2022.
Christine Bauer
8 March 2022
Project Program
Keynote: Celebrating an engaged music community and breaking the bias
FairRecKit
FairRecKit is a web-based analysis software that supports researchers in performing, analyzing, and understanding recommendation computations. The idea behind FairRecKit is to facilitate the in-depth analysis of recommendation outcomes considering fairness aspects. With (nested) filters on user or item attributes, metrics can easily be compared across user and item subgroups.
Video Code FairRecKit
FairRecKit
Muziek en Algoritmes (Music and algorithms)
Panel discussion with Wilbert Mutsaers (Spotify) on Music and Algorithms at IMPAKT TV, co-located with Dutch Media Week 2021.
Christine Bauer, Wilbert Mutsaers, Rosa Wevers, Friso Wiersum
7 October 2021
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Muziek en Algoritmes (Music and algorithms)
Recent media presence

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):

3 May 2021 1 min read News
Break the loop: gender imbalance in music recommenders
As recommender systems play an important role in everyday life, there is an increasing pressure that such systems are fair. Besides …
Andres Ferraro, Xavier Serra, Christine Bauer
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Summary of ISMIR 2020 Special Session Do we help artists? published in SIGIR Forum

I am glad that my summary of the ISMIR 2020 special session: ‘‘How do we—in MIR research—help artists? Do we?’’ made it to the December 2020 issue of the ACM SIGIR Forum.

6 January 2021 1 min read News
Guest in Austrian radio program Mahlzeit Burgenland

I had the honor being a guest at the Austrian radio program ‘‘Mahlzeit Burgenland’’. We talked about music recommenders, Austrian food, saxophones, the current Covid-19 situation, and many other things.

29 December 2020 1 min read News
Recording of panel on gender bias and discrimination in AI on YouTube

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.

26 October 2020 1 min read News
Geschlechtsspezifische Vorurteile und Diskriminierung durch KI
Panelist at VUT Indie Days Köln 2020.
Christine Bauer, Stephan Baumann, Amélie Heldt, Ronny Krieger
23 October 2020
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Geschlechtsspezifische Vorurteile und Diskriminierung durch KI