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How do we design rights respecting Education Tech data for the future? Dr Jun Zhao is proud to contribute to the peer-reviewed essay collection led by the Digital Future Commissions and 5Rights Foundation.

On 27-30 June, Tiffany and Jun attended the IDC'2022 in Braga, Portugal. Tiffany presented two workshop papers on 27 June: one on “What They Say and What They Do: The Need to Unpack the Datafication Practices in Children’s Recommendations” at KidRec'22, and one on “Ethical Considerations on Positioning the Normative Stance when working with Children” at “Ethical Considerations of Distributed Participatory Design with Children”.

On 8 June 2022, we contribute to the UK Government’s Call for Evidence to the revised Online Safety Bill (see the full bill). Generally speaking, we welcome the considerations urged by the Online Safety Bill committee and we are excited about the potential impact that the Bill could bring to the current online experiences of the users, particularly children.

The Oxford CCAI (Child-Centred AI) team were well presented in Oxford University MPLS’ Science Together 2022. We had the pleasure to run a taster App Club session with 27 students coming from Oxford Academy, based on the six-week programme we developed with LeysCDI (see app club).

Our paper on “‘Don’t make assumptions about me!’: Understanding Children’s Perception of Datafication Online” has been accepted by CSCW'22 and will be presented later in 2022 The paper is based on an online interview study with 48 children in the UK to understand how children perceive datafication in online systems.

AI systems are becoming increasingly pervasive within children’s devices, apps, and services. However, it is not yet well-understood how risks and ethical considerations of AI relate to children. To this end, in late 2021, we conducted a review of leading general AI frameworks and those for children, and a systematic literature review of 188 papers about children’s AI systems.