The perceived fairness of decision-making procedures is a key concern for organizations, particularly when evaluating employees and determining personnel outcomes. Algorithms have created opportunities for increasing fairness and impartiality by overcoming biases commonly displayed by human decision makers.

Safety Culture in the Lab: Burden or Personal Perception

In this presentation an EH&S representative will talk about the change of the safety culture in research laboratories throughout the years and the UC-wide measures which are taken today in order to improve it.

In this talk I will discuss three of the ‘big’ issues related to spatial cognition and blindness: education, employment, and navigation. I will describe why solutions have not been forthcoming and argue for a holistic approach involving several paradigmatic shifts in how we think and conduct research that are needed in order to make true advances.