Vance Ricks
Associate Teaching Professor
Research interests
- Friendships and parasocial relationships online
- Human-computer interaction
- Artificial intelligence
Education
- PhD in Philosophy, Stanford University
- BA, Guilford College
Biography
Vance Ricks is an associate teaching professor at Northeastern University, holding joint appointments with the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. Ricks’ teaching and research focus on ethical dimensions of computer technologies, and he is affiliated with the Algorithm Auditing Research Group at Northeastern.
Ricks earned his doctorate in philosophy from Stanford University and was an associate professor of philosophy at Guilford College before joining Northeastern in 2021. He contributed and co-edited the Mozilla Foundation’s Responsible Computer Science Challenge Online Playbook, which explores the piloting of curricula that integrates ethics with undergraduate computer science training. Outside of research and teaching, Ricks is an enthusiastic long-distance bicyclist and a cook.
Labs and groups
Recent publications
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Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis
Citation: Dubljevic V, List G, Milojevich J, Ajmeri N, Bauer WA, Singh MP, et al. (2021) Toward a rational and ethical sociotechnical system of autonomous vehicles: A novel application of multi-criteria decision analysis. PLoS ONE 16(8): e0256224. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256224 -
The Effectiveness of Embedded Values Analysis Modules in Computer Science Education: An Empirical Study
Citation: Matthew Kopec, Meica Magnani, Vance Ricks, Roben Torosyan, John Basl, Nicholas Miklaucic, Felix Muzny, Ronald Sandler, Christo Wilson, Adam Wisniewski-Jensen, Cora Lundgren, Kevin Mills, Mark Wells. (2022). The Effectiveness of Embedded Values Analysis Modules in Computer Science Education: An Empirical Study CoRR, abs/2208.05453. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.05453