People Confronting Data
We are an interdisciplinary group of people that contribute with different experiences, skills, and perspectives. Our research is often carried out in an interdisciplinary context in collaboration with people, society, and industry.
Our aim is to ask the difficult questions about the data-driven technological directions our society is leaning towards. Questions in relations to ethical dilemmas about how and why we as individual citizens are taken there, and whether we really want our society to go in that direction.
Co-lab
Naja Holten Møller
Naja Holten Møller is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science in the Human-Centred Computing section (HCC). Her research unfolds through a deep engagement with issues concerning data-driven technologies and how they introduce continual forms of change for bureaucracies and public decision-, but also for citizens who engage with these processes. In this context, her work raises questions about the role of professional discretion as a form of ethics in practice in the caseworker-citizen interaction and new forms of accountability that arise from datafication.
Tariq Osman Andersen
Tariq Osman Andersen is an Associate professor at the Department of Computer Science in the Software, Data, People and Society research section (SDPS). His work revolves around patient-centred digital health and technologies that bridge between the clinic and the home. He has a particular interest in long-term participatory design methods and in recent projects he explores the sociotechnical implications of human-ai interaction when deployed in the clinical encounter.
tariq@di.ku.dk
Trine Rask Nielsen
Trine Rask Nielsen is a postdoc at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen in the Human-Centred Computing section (HCC). Her PhD research is grounded in the research fields Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Critical Data Studies. She is interested in understanding the technology-supported (collaborative) work practices and the workflows that support the asylum procedure. She investigates the social context surrounding how data about displaced individuals applying for asylum are produced, stored, and shared by and across different asylum actors, and used to inform asylum decisions.
Kristin Kaltenhäuser
Kristin Kaltenhäuser is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen in the Human-Centred Computing section (HCC). She has a master's degree in Software Design and Data Science, as well as in Intercultural Communication and Gender Studies. Drawing on participatory design and data science methods, her PhD is about informed sense-making of data in asylum decision-making in the Nordic countries, drawing on the experience of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers.
Tina Westergaard Milbak
Tina Westergaard Milbak is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen in the Human-Centred Computing section (HCC). She has a master's degree in Digital Design and Communication from the IT University of Copenhagen, specialized in interaction design. She has an interest in design methodologies and the intersection of HCI and data ethics. She works with 'research through design' and speculative methods to challenge and confront dilemmas in potential technological futures. Drawing from an extensive design background her practice unfolds both on a conceptual - as well as a visualizing level.
Hubert Zając
Hubert Dariusz Zając is a postdoc at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen. He comes from an engineering and design background with a master's degree in Computer Science. In his PhD, he investigates how to successfully realise medical AI in clinical settings. He is particularly interested in collaborative design work on medical data creation and AI design methods.
