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Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Kenneth R. Fleischmann is a Professor in the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also the Founding Chair of the Executive Team for Good Systems, a UT Grand Challenge (http://goodsystems.utexas.edu/) and the Founding Director of Undergraduate Studies for the iSchool's B.A./B.S. in Informatics. His research and teaching focus on the ethics of AI and more broadly on the role of human values in the design and use of information technologies. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Microsoft Research, Cisco Research Center, Micron Foundation, and the Public Interest Technology University Network. His research has been recognized by the iConference Best Paper Award, the ASIS&T SIG-USE Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award, the ALA Library Instruction Round Table Top Twenty Articles, the ASIS&T SIG-SI Social Informatics Best Paper Award, the Civic Futures Award for Designing for the 100%, and the MetroLab Innovation of the Month Award.
2004 Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2002 M.S., Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1999 B.A., Computer Science and Anthropology (Summa Cum Laude, with Honors), Case Western Reserve University
Computational Social Science
Science and Technology Studies
Information Ethics
Value Sensitive Design
Information and Human Values
Verma N., Fleischmann K.R., Koltai K.S. (2019) Understanding Online Trust and Information Behavior Using Demographics and Human Values. In: Taylor N., Christian-Lamb C., Martin M., Nardi B. (eds) Information in Contemporary Society. iConference 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11420. Springer, Cham
Xie, B., Berkley, A. S., Kwak, J., Fleischmann, K. R., Champion, J. D., & Koltai, K. S. (2018). End-of-life decision making by family caregivers of persons with advanced dementia: A literature review of decision aids. SAGE Open Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312118777517
Golden, K. E., & Fleischmann, K. R. (2018). Digital assistants and human values. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55(1), 813-814.
Shovkun, M., Fleischmann, K. R., & Xie, B. (2018). Computational social science using topic modeling: Analyzing patients' values using a large hospital survey. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 55(1), 892-893.
Fleischmann, K. R., Hui, C. and Wallace, W. A. (2017), The Societal Responsibilities of Computational Modelers: Human Values and Professional Codes of Ethics. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68: 543-552. doi:10.1002/asi.23697
Best Information Behavior Conference Paper, ASIS&T SIGUSE
Best Paper at the iConference
Social Informatics Best Paper, Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Special Interest Group for Social Informatics