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[ Session Name ] Sweet data [ Primary Space ] Openness [ Secondary Space ] Privacy and Security

[ Submitter's Name ] Jack Ratcliffe [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] BBC x QMUL

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Rhia Jones

What will happen in your session?

A modified, retro sweet dispenser draws attention to itself with a LCD display and speaker, advertising free sweets.

Participants use the dispenser's touchscreen to go through a process of pseudo-data collection, in which the machine recognises their face, saves an image and pretends to analyse their data.

It then makes a decision regarding whether the participant is allowed a sweet or not, and dispenses accordingly.

All users are given a printed transaction receipt, which explains how algorithmic decision-making was used in their recent exchange, highlights the potential problems of it, and talks about the importance of clarity from companies using such tools, and lists some examples of where this is found on the internet.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

We would like participants to leave our session with a raised awareness of how algorithmic decision-making pervades our society, the issues involved with it and with resources to find further information if they are interested.

We would also like them to have enjoyed the novelty of the interaction, and to believe that interactive art pieces are a viable and valuable tool for sharing technology-related concerns.