Speculative Stuff
2023 - 2024 Student Works
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HAVAR
(Human Assisting Video Assistant Referee)

















YOUNGJAE YUN








 Sports, along with music and the arts, are important to human life. Sports has always been one of the most humanizing industries. But over time, sports began to incorporate AI more and more. For instance, after AlphaGo was released, people began to study the Go game that the AI was playing. One of the main motivations for enjoying sports maybe empathy, and in South Korea in particular, where there is a lot of competition, people have a particularly strong empathy for the thrill of victory because there are daily victories and defeats in sports. Therefore, we urge that athletic competitions remain fair.

As a result, people started looking to technology for fairness. For strict offside and penalty kick decisions, football added Video Assistant Referees (VARs), and Taekwondo started using electronic hoops to replace the referee’s subjective assessment. Baseball has even embraced the ABS(Automated Ball Strike) system, which uses robots with artificial intelligence to call strikes.

Do people actually want or need artificial intelligence (AI) to make sports more fair? This topic is worthy of discussion. This is done so that, even if an AI referee has a 98% accuracy rate, humans won’t have to deal with the 2% of biased decisions. And even if AI uses objective standards to decide, it is still up to people to determine that the results are fair. Can we rely on AI to for creating a fair world? This issue might even spark a debate about whether AI judges’ judgments are always correct.

Consider the future now! The 2034 World Cup’s final match will be contested between South Korea and France. With AR, people won’t need to visit a stadium to enjoy the benefits of intuition. Maybe people will move from their seats to make room for the cameras that the numerous VARs on the field use to make sure the officials are being fair. Korea scored the game-winning goal. But the goal was ruled offside by the AI referee. The decision nevertheless seems controversial to the human eye. In the end, the South Korean coach ultimately requests that the HAVAR (Human Assisting Video Assistant Referee) system reread the AI’s judgment. You have to consider the fairness of this choice: was the AI still 98% fair at this critical moment? People rely on AI to make fair decisions, but humans must also judge AI for it to be fair. Is the fair society and sports we seek really one where AI makes the decisions?






2023



Speculative Stuff



Speculative Stuff documents the design works of Yonsei University's Integrated Design undergraduate students, showcasing South Korea's first speculative design course. Led by Hyunjae Daniel Shin (Assistant Professor) and Eun Sun Park (Lecturer), our 16-week program blends theoretical lectures, interactive workshops, and practical exercises.

This course aims to foster the ability to understand and speculate about macro and micro changes in technology, culture, society, and the environment through everyday products and services in future contexts. By using future scenarios, comedy techniques, and preposterous worldbuilding, students develop a critical perspective on alternative futures.