Toward User-Driven Algorithm Auditing: Investigating users’ strategies for uncovering harmful algorithmic behavior

Toward User-Driven Algorithm Auditing: Investigating users’ strategies for uncovering harmful algorithmic behavior

A three-stage model capturing the process by which people uncover biased and harmful algorithmic behaviors: Search Inspiration, Sense Making and Remediation

  1. Search inspiration: encompasses ways in which users come up with ideas for where to look for potential biases in an algorithmic system
  2. Sense making involves the ways that users understood and evaluated algorithmic behaviors that might be harmfully biased, and
  3. Remediation: participant actions and desires to mitigate the ramifications of harmful algorithmic bias.