Problem
Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
Age Assurance
Sociotechnical Problem
Evidence Evaluation
Accountability Gap
Age Verification
Reconceptualizing Age Assurance as a Sociotechnical Problem: Connecting Evidence, Evaluation, Claims, and Decisions
🤖 AI Summary
论文将年龄验证视为社会技术问题，提出年龄保证过程框架，连接证据、评估、声明和决策，而不仅仅是技术准确性。
📝 Abstract
Age verification is often treated as a technical problem: can a system determine a child's age accurately? We argue this framing is too narrow. Age assurance becomes consequential when evidence is evaluated, translated into age-related claims, and used to decide whether a person can access, purchase, or belong. We review 85 publications on children's age assurance published from 2020 through February 2026. We find that shared terms such as age verification describe different processes. Age is represented as threshold eligibility or inferred estimation, and the same eligibility claim can arise from different evidence and components. Rights, access, and privacy receive more attention than accuracy, error, and fairness; yet institutional actors are rarely connected to system failures or user remedies, an accountability gap. We introduce the Age-Assurance Process Framework, which treats age assurance as a sociotechnical process connecting evidence, evaluation, claims, and decisions rather than reducing it to a technical problem.
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
sociotechnical problem
Age-Assurance Process Framework
accountability gap
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