Print Email Facebook Twitter Developing a monitoring process for IPC Acute Food Insecurity analyses Title Developing a monitoring process for IPC Acute Food Insecurity analyses: A case study on Human-Centered AI for humanitarian decision-making Author Roelvink, Marijn (TU Delft Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science) Contributor Liem, C.C.S. (mentor) Comes, M. (mentor) Baar, T. (mentor) Taebi, B. (graduation committee) Brinkman, W.P. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Computer Science Date 2024-06-11 Abstract Due to climate change, man-made conflicts, and rising inflation, a growing number of people around the world are struggling to have consistent access to safe and nutritious food. This phenomenon is known as food insecurity (FI). Therefore, we take in this thesis the first steps towards developing a monitoring process for assessing FI using Human-Centered AI (HCAI). We developed this process for, and in collaboration with, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). The IPC is an organization that helps countries classify levels of food insecurity in their regions to inform humanitarian decision-making. During our research process, we found that any form of HCAI for the IPC would need to be informed by input from their domain experts, and we concluded that we could not start implementing HCAI until we found a way to formalize their input in a way that was robust and suited their technical capabilities. To this end, we ran an experiment with 18 IPC experts in Malawi to see whether they could quantify their assumptions by setting thresholds for food security drivers. The results are encouraging but show that there is still much to be done to bridge the gap between domain knowledge and technical expertise. We also show in this thesis that there is a lack of real-life case studies on HCAI development and share therefore our lessons learned from our real-world HCAI case study on FI monitoring. In this way, we hope to promote the development of a practice-informed methodology for HCAI. Subject Food insecurityHuman-Centered AIExpert interviewsHuman-Centered DesignCase StudyMonitoring To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8c5f2f62-ec2a-4470-b519-3031f73a2813 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2024 Marijn Roelvink Files PDF Thesis_Marijn_Roelvink_Final.pdf 12.89 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8c5f2f62-ec2a-4470-b519-3031f73a2813/datastream/OBJ/view