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"Towards A Participatory Approach for Metaverse Governance: Lessons from WeBuildAI"

The metaverse is often governed by computationally coded rules, ensuring its traits of virtual property and identity. How should this governance be designed? Can this be done in a participatory, democratic way by leveraging the decentralized nature of Web3? In this talk, I will use the case study of WeBuildAI as a starting point to explore the potential opportunities and challenges in participatory governance.

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Min Kyung Lee is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Lee has conducted some of the first studies that empirically examine the social implications of algorithms’ emerging roles in management and governance in society. She has extensive expertise in developing theories, methods, and tools for human-centered AI and deploying them in practice through collaboration with real-world stakeholders and organizations. She developed a participatory framework that empowers community members to design matching algorithms that govern their own communities. Her current research is inspired by and complements her previous work on social robots for long-term interaction, seamless human-robot handovers, and telepresence robots. 

Dr. Lee is a Siebel Scholar and has received the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence, research grants from NSF and Uptake, and five best paper awards and honorable mentions, and two demo/video awards in venues such as CHI, CSCW, DIS, HRI, and MobiSys. She is an Associate Editor of Human-Computer Interaction and a Senior Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. Her work has been featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, New Scientist, Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, and CBS. She received a Ph.D. and an MS in Human-Computer Interaction and an MDes in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS from KAIST.

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Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83007378412

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