Final Project - COVID update

Pairs are required

As we've discussed in class, you must explore a topic intersecting Computing and Technology (i.e., a topic similar to, or perhaps the same as, the topics we've gone over in class.)

Flash Talk, Poster, and Medium Post

Flash Talk (Rough Draft Video)

You will present a flash talk & (digital) poster as a part of the final project. The first flash talk will be a recorded video of you talking through the rough draft of your poster.

• Your recorded flash talk should consist one slide (basically your poster on a slide) and a recorded video presentation that should last roughly 2 minutes.
  • You will post this video to the #project-rough-draft-videos channel on the class Slack channel
  • In addition, you (every individual student) should post a constructive critique to another groups video post (use the thread tool, to keep your comments within that particular post)
    • Each video should have critiques from a maximum of two students!

Poster (Final Video)

You will present a longer talk & (digital) final poster as a part of the final project. The long talk will be a recorded video of you talking through the final version of your poster.

• Your recorded flash talk should consist one slide (basically your poster on a slide) and a recorded video presentation that should last roughly 5 minutes.
  • You will post this video to the #project-final-videos channel on the class Slack channel
  • In addition, you (every individual student) should post a constructive critique to another groups video post (use the thread tool, to keep your comments within that particular post)
• Your video presentation & responses to critical questions will be judged according to the rubric found in resources.
  • In addition, you (every individual student) should post a critical question to another groups video post (use the thread tool, to keep your comments within that particular post)
    • Each video should have a maximum of two critical questions!
  • Each group should provide a response to these questions within that same thread

Medium Post

• You Medium article will be judged according to the rubric found in resources.

See the next section on more for what is expected in the artifacts that you create for this project

Develop a case study

• As a part of the project you will develop a Case Study based on the topic you've chosen. In addition to the chosen topic, your Case Study must be either connected to this region (i.e., within 65 miles of Lewisburg) or connected to an area within 15 miles of your home address.
• Thus, you want to consider how your high-level topic connects to local society & culture.
• You will incorporate your Case Study into your Medium Post. It is expected that the Medium post will be MUCH more refined with than your rough-draft/final video. As noted in the Final Project Medium Post Rubric, your 2 Videos/Poster and Final Project Medium Post should address several points in your analysis.
  
• Those points of emphasis are below:
  1. The purpose/intended function of using computing in the hypothetical scenario.
     
     • This will be the outline of your case study, which might be built around a hypothetical computing system/project and context in which this system is applied.
       
  2. The various types of stakeholders that might be involved in such a practice, and the different stakes/interests they have in the outcome.
     
  3. The potential benefits and risks of harm that could be created by such a project, including ‘downstream’ impacts.
     
  4. The ethical challenges most relevant to this project.
     
  5. The ethical obligations to the public that such a project might entail for the data professionals working on it.
     
  6. Any potential for disparate impacts of the project that should be anticipated, and how those might differently affect the various stakeholders identified in 2.
     
  7. The ethical best-case scenario (the maximum social benefit the data practitioners would hope to come out of the project) and a worst-case scenario (how the project could lead to an ethical disaster or at least substantial harm to the significant interests of others).
     
  8. One way that the risk of the worst-case-scenario could be reduced in advance, and one way that the harm could be mitigated after-the-fact by an effective crisis response.
     
  9. At least three brief proposals or ideas for carrying out the project in the most ethical way possible. Or, if the project as outlined could never be carried out in an ethical way, identify a redesign or alternative project that would be more ethically sound.
     

*Note that this is modified from the Case Study assignment on ~page 59 of the Introduction to data ethics module by Markkula Center for Applied Ethics*