Towards Transparent and Ethical Human Mobility Data
- Ningchuan Xiao will showcase the findings or outcomes of their project thus far as a Geospatial Fellow for advancing COVID-19 research and education.
- Douglas Richardson will serve as a discussant for the webinar
Ningchuan Xiao
The Ohio State University
Douglas Richardson
Harvard University
Ningchuan Xiao The Ohio State University
Towards Transparent and Ethical Human Mobility Data
The surge of human mobility data in the past two decades has led to much progress in research and applications that involve human locations and movements. The emergence of such data has also led to serious questions about their ethical underpinnings because they often lack transparency in data acquisition, processing, transfer, and use, and are often not reproducible. In this webinar, we examine the theoretical concerns of human mobility data and the algorithms behind their production and applications. We focus on transparency from a microethics perspective and discuss transparency issues in some major mobility big data sets. We then present a case study leveraging a new source of publicly available geospatial big data, the traffic camera feeds, to illustrate a transparent and ethical framework for mobility data production. By making the source data, models, algorithms, code, quality measures, derived data products, and expected consequences transparent and accessible to the public, we propose a promising framework to promote the openness, accountability, and trust in the lifecycle of mobility data.
Ningchuan Xiao Dr. Ningchuan Xiao is Professor of Geography at The Ohio State University. His research in geographic information science and spatial analysis is founded on the premise that spatial and temporal data is ubiquitous, and the design and implementation of computational methods will not only enable us to efficiently produce and process such data but also help us understand the social and ethical nuances of such data. In this broad context, he directs his enthusiasm to continuously developing an extensive research, teaching, and service portfolio to embrace topics in mapping and data visualization, spatial optimization and spatial decision support systems, spatial and temporal modeling, and environmental modeling.
Douglas Richardson Harvard University
Douglas Richardson As the Executive Director of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) from 2003-2019, Dr. Douglas Richardson led a highly successful renewal of the organization. He greatly expanded its membership and international footprint, developed dynamic and wide-ranging new research initiatives, and built strong academic, publishing, and financial foundations for the AAG, and for geography’s future. Prior to joining the AAG, Dr. Richardson founded and was the president of GeoResearch, Inc., a scientific research firm that developed and patented the world’s first real-time space-time interactive GPS/GIS functionality, which has transformed the ways in which geospatial data and geographic information is now collected, experienced, mapped, and used within geography and other disciplines, and in society at large. The concepts, technologies and innovations pioneered by Richardson and GeoResearch are now ubiquitous and at the heart of a wide array of real-time interactive mapping, navigation, mobile computing and consumer devices such as cell phones, and location-based business applications. They also have become central to the real-time management of day-to-day core operations of large-scale governmental entities, corporations, and international NGOs. Richardson sold his company and its core patents in 1998, and has since continued to develop the field of real-time space-time integration in geography and GIScience through international and interdisciplinary geospatial research in areas such as health, sustainable environmental and economic development, human rights, coupled human-natural systems, and more recently the integration of spatial concepts, data, and analysis in the humanities and social sciences.
Towards Transparent and Ethical Human Mobility Data
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Date: Mon, June 28, 2021
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm U.S. Central Time
Status: Event Ended
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