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arXiv: 2303.15592
handle: 10230/71413
Personal informatics (PI) systems, powered by smartphones and wearables, enable people to lead healthier lifestyles by providing meaningful and actionable insights that break down barriers between users and their health information. Today, such systems are used by billions of users for monitoring not only physical activity and sleep but also vital signs and women's and heart health, among others. Despite their widespread usage, the processing of sensitive PI data may suffer from biases, which may entail practical and ethical implications. In this work, we present the first comprehensive empirical and analytical study of bias in PI systems, including biases in raw data and in the entire machine learning life cycle. We use the most detailed framework to date for exploring the different sources of bias and find that biases exist both in the data generation and the model learning and implementation streams. According to our results, the most affected minority groups are users with health issues, such as diabetes, joint issues, and hypertension, and female users, whose data biases are propagated or even amplified by learning models, while intersectional biases can also be observed.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Fairness, Ubiquitous computing, Personal informatics, Machine Learning (cs.LG), Computer Science - Computers and Society, Bias, Machine learning, Computers and Society (cs.CY), Sensing data, Digital biomarkers
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Fairness, Ubiquitous computing, Personal informatics, Machine Learning (cs.LG), Computer Science - Computers and Society, Bias, Machine learning, Computers and Society (cs.CY), Sensing data, Digital biomarkers
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