Team design patterns for moral decisions in hybrid intelligent systems: A case study of bias mitigation

Jip J. van Stijn, Mark A. Neerincx, Annette ten Teije, Steven Vethman

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Abstract

Increasing automation in the healthcare sector calls for a Hybrid Intelligence (HI) approach to closely study and design the collaboration of humans and autonomous machines. Ensuring that medical HI systems' decision-making is ethical is key. The use of Team Design Patterns (TDPs) can advance this goal by describing successful and reusable configurations of design problems in which decisions have a moral component and facilitating communication in multidisciplinary teams designing HI systems. For this research, TDPs were developed describing a set of solutions for a design problem in a medical HI system: mitigating harmful biases in machine learning algorithms. The Socio-Cognitive Engineering (SCE) methodology was employed, integrating operational demands, human factors knowledge, and a technological analysis into a set of TDPs. A survey was created to assess the usability of the patterns with regards to their understandability, effectiveness, and generalizability. Results showed that TDPs are a useful method to unambiguously describe solutions for diverse HI design problems with a moral component on varying abstraction levels, usable by a heterogeneous group of multidisciplinary researchers. Additionally, results indicated that the SCE approach and the developed questionnaire are suitable methods for creating and assessing TDPs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAAAI-MAKE 2021 Combining Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the AAAI 2021 Spring Symposium on Combining Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering (AAAI-MAKE 2021) Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, March 22-24, 2021
EditorsAndreas Martin, Knut Hinkelmann, Hans-Georg Fill, Aurona Gerber, Doug Lenat, Reinhard Stolle, Frank van Harmelen
PublisherCEUR-WS
Pages1-12
Number of pages12
Publication statusPublished - 10 Apr 2021
Event2021 AAAI Spring Symposium on Combining Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering, AAAI-MAKE 2021 - Palo Alto, United States
Duration: 22 Mar 202124 Mar 2021

Publication series

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
PublisherCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume2846
ISSN (Print)1613-0073

Conference

Conference2021 AAAI Spring Symposium on Combining Machine Learning and Knowledge Engineering, AAAI-MAKE 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPalo Alto
Period22/03/2124/03/21

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The study was part of the TNO FATE-project; we thank the TNO researchers for their contribution. It was further supported by the Hybrid Intelligence Center, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (through NWO).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org)

Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

Keywords

  • Bias mitigation
  • Hybrid intelligence
  • Moral decision-making
  • Socio-cognitive engineering
  • Team design patterns
  • Value-sensitive design

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