Ethically Aligned Stakeholder Elicitation (EASE)

This documents provides the developed graphical interface of Ethically Aligned Stakeholder Elicitation (EASE) method, as described in Kaila, A., Jääskeläinen, P., & Holzapfel, A. (2023). Ethically Aligned Stakeholder Elicitation (EASE): Case Study in Music-AI. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression.

EASE is an analytical method for a structured, ethically informed and power-sensitive stakeholder analysis. It has been designed to be run in a workshop format in particular with developers of AI and data-driven applications. The workshop centres around an actual application development project and runs in two steps: ethically informed stakeholder identification and power-mapping. The document includes the boards and instructions needed for conducting the workshop.