TY - JOUR
T1 - Navigating the labyrinth of RI through a practical application — A case study in a cross-disciplinary research project
AU - Zhao, Jun
AU - Patel, Menisha
AU - Inglesant, Philip
AU - Portillo, Virgina
AU - Webb, Helena
AU - Dowthwaite, Liz
AU - Fiddi, Paula
AU - Legastelois, Bénédicte
AU - Vallejos, Elvira perez
AU - Rovatsos, Michael
AU - Jirotka, Marina
N1 - Funding Information:
Our RI approach was developed under the context of a two-year research project funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a major research funding body in the UK. The collaborative project brought together interdisciplinary expertise from three institutions and diverse disciplines, ranging from AI, psychology, mental health, RI and human computer interaction, with the aim to explore the key open question: what causes people to trust, or fail to trust, existing online platforms and how is it possible to develop novel trust-building technologies to address users’ concerns?
Funding Information:
This project was funded by EPSRC, United Kingdom grant ReEnTrust: Rebuilding and Enhancing Trust in Algorithms ( EP/R033633/1 ) and partially supported by the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Authors
PY - 2023/8/2
Y1 - 2023/8/2
N2 - Responsible Innovation (RI) aims to enable research and innovation to take a more systematic approach to anticipating potential risks and consequences of planned research/innovative outputs. The Anticipation, Reflection, Engagement and Action (AREA) framework provides a flexible mechanism for organisations and researchers to align research and innovation with societal values, needs and challenges. However, its actual application may prove challenging for practitioners. In this paper, we describe how the AREA framework has been embedded in an interdisciplinary research project in the UK over the period of 2019–2021 through dedicated monthly RI workshops. To gain insights from this practice, we have collected qualitative data from discussions throughout the project and performed a systematic analysis of the logging practice itself. We discuss benefits and challenges associated with embedding an RI framework within an interdisciplinary research team, and present recommendations for future adoption of the AREA framework in a cross-disciplinary research setting.
AB - Responsible Innovation (RI) aims to enable research and innovation to take a more systematic approach to anticipating potential risks and consequences of planned research/innovative outputs. The Anticipation, Reflection, Engagement and Action (AREA) framework provides a flexible mechanism for organisations and researchers to align research and innovation with societal values, needs and challenges. However, its actual application may prove challenging for practitioners. In this paper, we describe how the AREA framework has been embedded in an interdisciplinary research project in the UK over the period of 2019–2021 through dedicated monthly RI workshops. To gain insights from this practice, we have collected qualitative data from discussions throughout the project and performed a systematic analysis of the logging practice itself. We discuss benefits and challenges associated with embedding an RI framework within an interdisciplinary research team, and present recommendations for future adoption of the AREA framework in a cross-disciplinary research setting.
KW - responsible innovation
KW - algorithms
KW - frameworks
KW - human centred research
U2 - 10.1016/j.jrt.2023.100064
DO - 10.1016/j.jrt.2023.100064
M3 - Article
SN - 2666-6596
VL - 15
SP - 1
EP - 6
JO - Journal of Responsible Technology
JF - Journal of Responsible Technology
M1 - 100064
ER -