👏 Congratulations to relAI PhD Student Jan Simson and relAI Fellow Prof. Christoph Kern!
We are excited to announce that their article Preventing Harmful Data Practices by using Participatory Input to Navigate the Machine Learning Multiverse has been awarded the DGOF Best Paper Award 2026! This honour, which includes a prize of 500 euros, was presented at the annual GOR conference in Cologne on February 26, 2026.
The German Society for Online Research (DGOF) annually recognizes outstanding scientific contributions to the advancement of the methods of online research through the DGOF Best Paper Award.
Their award-winning paper emphasizes the importance of transparency and accessibility in key decisions throughout the machine learning pipeline for the general public. It introduces a participatory approach to help navigate the multiverse of design choices, advocating for the democratization of essential decisions rather than simply focusing on optimization.
📖 To the article:
- Simson, J., et al. (2025). Preventing Harmful Data Practices by using Participatory Input to Navigate the Machine Learning Multiverse. Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 806, 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713482
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