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Pinar Barlas

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Pınar is a Library and Information Science Ph.D. student in the Faculty for Information and Media Sciences at Western University, studying the construction of datasets for machine learning applications.

 

Their main research goal is to minimize the harmful societal effects of Artificial Intelligence systems, by understanding how social values become embedded in the model training process.

 

Before starting the Ph.D. program, Pınar was a Research Associate for the Fairness and Ethics in AI-Human Interaction Multidisciplinary Research Group at the CYENS Centre of Excellence. Pınar has a BA in Cultural Studies & Communication, an MA in Interaction Design, and brief experience in the industry as a User Experience and Service Designer.

 

www.pinarbarlas.com

Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fqVDyqQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Google Scholar profile:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fqVDyqQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao


  • Pınar Barlas, Maximilian Krahn, Styliani Kleanthous, Kyriakos Kyriakou, & Jahna Otterbacher. “Shifting Our Awareness, Taking Back Tags: Temporal Changes in Computer Vision Services’ Social Behaviors.” In Proc. of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). 2022. [doi]
  • Shaoyang Fan, Pınar Barlas, Evgenia Christoforou, Jahna Otterbacher, Shazia Sadiq, & Gianluca Demartini. “Socio-Economic Diversity in Human Annotations.” In Proc. of the 14th International ACM Conference on Web Science (WebSci). 2022. [doi]
  • [Demo] Periklis Perikleous, Andreas Kafkalias, Zenonas Theodosiou, Pınar Barlas, Evgenia Christoforou, Jahna Otterbacher, Gianluca Demartini, & Andreas Lanitis. “How Does the Crowd Impact the Model? A Tool for Raising Awareness of Social Bias in Crowdsourced Training Data.” In Proc. of the 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM). 2022. [doi]
  • Styliani Kleanthous, Maria Kasinidou, Pınar Barlas, & Jahna Otterbacher. “Perception of Fairness in Algorithmic Decisions: Future Developers' Perspective.” In Patterns. 2021. [doi]
  • Pınar Barlas, Kyriakos Kyriakou, Styliani Kleanthous, & Jahna Otterbacher. “Person, Human, Neither: The Dehumanization Potential of Automated Image Tagging.” In Proceedings of the 2021 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES). 2021. [doi]
  • Evgenia Christoforou, Pınar Barlas, & Jahna Otterbacher. ““It’s About Time": A View of Crowdsourced Data Before and During the Pandemic.” In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2021. [doi]
  • Maria Kasinidou, Styliani Kleanthous, Pınar Barlas, & Jahna Otterbacher. ““I agree with the decision, but they didn’t deserve this”; Future Developers’ Perception of Fairness in Algorithmic Decisions.” In Proc. of the 2021 ACM Conf. on Fairness, Accountability, & Transparency (FAccT). 2021. [doi]
  • Pınar Barlas, Kyriakos Kyriakou, Olivia Guest, Styliani Kleanthous, & Jahna Otterbacher. “To "See" is to Stereotype: Image Tagging Algorithms, Gender Recognition, and the Accuracy–Fairness Trade-off.” In Proc. of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (V4, CSCW3, #232). 2020. [doi]
  • [Demo] Pınar Barlas, Kyriakos Kyriakou, Antrea Chrysanthou, Styliani Kleanthous, & Jahna Otterbacher. “OPIAS: Over-Personalization in Information Access Systems.” In Adjunct Proc. of the 28th ACM Conf. on User Modeling, Adaptation & Personalization (UMAP Adjunct). 2020. [doi]
  • [Demo] Antrea Chrysanthou, Pınar Barlas, Kyriakos Kyriakou, Styliani Kleanthous, & Jahna Otterbacher. “Bursting the Bubble: Tool for Awareness and Research about Overpersonalization in Information Access Systems.” In Proc. of the 25th International Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces Companion (IUI Companion). 2020. [doi]
  • Jahna Otterbacher, Pınar Barlas, Styliani Kleanthous, & Kyriakos Kyriakou. “How Do We Talk About Other People? Group (Un)Fairness In Natural Language Image Descriptions.” In Proc. of the 7th AAAI Conf. on Human Computation & Crowdsourcing (HCOMP). 2019. [doi]
  • [Dataset] Pınar Barlas, Kyriakos Kyriakou, Styliani Kleanthous, & Jahna Otterbacher. “Social B(eye)as: Human and Machine Descriptions of People Images.” In Proc. of the 13th International AAAI Conf. on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). 2019. [doi]
  • Kyriakos Kyriakou, Pınar Barlas, Styliani Kleanthous, & Jahna Otterbacher. “Fairness in Proprietary Image Tagging Algorithms: A Cross-Platform Audit on People Images.” In Proc. of the 13th International AAAI Conf. on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). 2019. [doi]
  • Pinar Barlas, Styliani Kleanthous, Kyriakos Kyriakou, & Jahna Otterbacher. “What Makes an Image Tagger Fair?.” In Proc. of the 27th ACM Conf. on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). 2019. [doi] 
  • [Extended Abstract] Katta Spiel, Os Keyes, & Pınar Barlas. “Patching Gender: Non-binary Utopias in HCI.” In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA). 2019. [doi] 
  • [SIG] K. Spiel, O. Keyes, A.M. Walker, M.A. DeVito, J. Birnholtz, E. Brulé, A. Light, P. Barlas, J. Hardy, A. Ahmed, J.A. Rode, J.R. Brubaker, & G. Kannabiran. “Queer(ing) HCI: Moving Forward in Theory and Practice.” In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA). 2019. [doi]