Bias in Everyday Appliances
Medical Equipment Bias occured in the usage of oximeters, a device to measure the percentage of oxygen in blood. The way these oximeters functioned were to pass infrared light through the skin to determine the blood oxygen level. Most oximeters distributed in the general public were initially calibrated for people with white or light skin. This was a vias that produced errors more frequently for those who tend to have a darker skin color.
Speech Recognition Speech recognition is a tool used to process human speech onto on-screen text. Speech recognition programs like Siri, and Alexa had trouble identifying speech patterns of those from minority groups. Claudia Lopes Lloreda brought up research which showed there exists bias against those who identify as Black: “On average, all five programs from leading technology companies like Apple and Microsoft showed significant race disparities; they were twice as likely to incorrectly transcribe audio from Black speakers as opposed to white speakers".
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