Mapping Directions for Disability-Centered AI: The 2024 Workshop on AI for Disability, Function, and Health

Presentation Time: 08:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Abstract Keywords: Disability, Accessibility, and Human Function, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Health Equity, Fairness and Elimination of Bias, Governance of Artificial Intelligence, Legal, Ethical, Social and Regulatory Issues, Machine Learning, Participatory Approach/Science, Patient / Person Generated Health Data (Patient Reported Outcomes)
Primary Track: Foundations
Programmatic Theme: Consumer Health Informatics

More than one in six people around the globe are disabled, and the NIH has recently formally designated disabled people as a health disparity population. However, relatively little informatics research to date has focused on disability, either to explore the benefits that better use of data and informatics can bring to addressing disability data needs or the risks that inappropriately-designed informatics technologies pose for amplifying disability injustices. As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to mature and become more commonplace in healthcare and policy applications, the time is right to proactively map out what disability-centered approaches to AI might look like, and what role the health informatics community can play in achieving this. This workshop will focus on fostering discussion at the intersection of AI and disability, and imagining what equitable, disability-centered AI would look like. Each prior edition of the AI4Function workshop series has focused on a distinct question at the intersection of disability, data, and AI, and have maintained consistent cross-disciplinary engagement. 2024 workshop activities will include: (1) two keynote presentations on needs and strategies for disability data and AI; (2) an open poster session to highlight relevant work ongoing in the AMIA community; and (3) a co-productive discussion session on key aspects of mapping out disability-centered AI research in AMIA.

Speaker(s):
Denis Newman-Griffis, PhD
University of Sheffield

Bart Desmet, PhD
NIH

Ayah Zirikly, PhD
JHU

Bonnielin Swenor, PhD, MPH


Rupa Valdez, PhD
University of Virginia

Carolyn Petersen, MS, MBI, FAMIA
Mayo Clinic

Author(s):
Denis Newman-Griffis, PhD - University of Sheffield; Bart Desmet, PhD - NIH; Ayah Zirikly, PhD - JHU; Bonnielin Swenor, PhD, MPH; Rupa Valdez, PhD - University of Virginia; Carolyn Petersen, MS, MBI, FAMIA - Mayo Clinic;