Pass the ball: Designing accountability into the socio-technical context of algorithmic systems

Algorithms are all around us. Based on large amounts of data and through automated decision-making processes, they increasingly exercise power over us. As a way of governing this power, we should be able to hold these algorithms and those responsible for implementing them accountable. This research posed the following research question: How can...

Creating a Mood Database for automated affect analysis

Affect-adaptive systems are dependent on their ability to automatically recognize a user’s affective state. This study aims to contribute to the creation of an affect-adaptive system that can recognize negative moods of elderly in care homes from a video feed, and improve it by adapting the lighting in the room. An affective database of videos...

Simlike platform

During the bachelor project a prototype of a social media platform called Simlike was developed for the company Nerval Limited. Nerval Limited is an internet start-up with no prior development experiences. Therefore a development environment had to be set up as well. Simlike focuses on making new friends and the importance of real life relations...

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