About the Metrics Makerspace

About the Event

The Metrics Makerspace was a two-day interactive workshop held on November 6–7, 2025 at the University of Pittsburgh as part of the 2025 ACM EAAMO Conference. The workshop explored how values are translated into metrics across key areas like AI procurement, social indicators, and responsible research. Together, participants identified shared principles, surfaced tensions, and sparked collaborations — with the goal of co-authoring papers or white papers based on the findings.

Why It Matters

Metrics shape decisions. The numbers we choose to track — and the ones we leave out — determine how resources are allocated, how communities are understood, and how accountability is defined. The Metrics Makerspace brought diverse perspectives together to ask: who decides what gets measured, and are those measurements serving the people they claim to represent?

Day 1 Presenters

• Sera Linardi (University of Pittsburgh)
• Abie Flaxman (University of Washington)
• Justin Kitzes (University of Pittsburgh)
• Ezinne Nwankwo (UC Berkeley)

Synthesis Team

The evening synthesis sessions were supported by the RAISE Lab (Amulya Yadav, Tianrong Zhang, Aditya Majumdar, Firdaus Choudhury, Bonam Mingole, Wenbo Zhang), Pittsburgh volunteers (Fang Wu, Rachel Kim, Aditya Nayak), EAAMO (Sera Linardi, Kenya Andrews, Ezinne Nwankwo, Serafina Kamp), and RDS.

What's Next

The Metrics Makerspace is now moving into a working-group phase. Participants are organizing into groups to develop ideas further, produce papers, and write reports based on the themes that emerged during the event.

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