Automated Societies

Automated Societies

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Automated Societies episodes

  • Swedish Initiatives in Automated Mobilities

    This discussion took place at the 2022 Future Automated Mobilities Symposium, held at RMIT University 20-21 October.


    This session shines the spotlight on the groundbreaking interdisciplinary academic and industry initiatives, research and collaboration being undertaken in Sweden - across three key organisations - the automotive company Volvo Cars, Halmstad University’s interdisciplinary research team, and Drive Sweden - one of the Swedish Government’s Strategic Innovation.

    Prof Sarah Pink, Monash University (chair)

    Dr Magnus Bergquist, Halmstad University
    Professor Vaike Fors, Halmstad University and Drive Sweden
    Malin Labecker, Volvo Cars

    30 min
  • Interdisciplinary and Multi-stakeholder Automated Mobilities

    This discussion took place at the 2022 Future Automated Mobilities Symposium, held at RMIT University 20-21 October.


    What do future automated mobilities look like from the perspectives of different stakeholders across industry, public sector, academic and government funded initiatives? Our panellists explore how these organisations and sectors have successfully collaborated, and we ask how we might achieve future fair, trusted and safe interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder automated mobilities?

    Speakers:
    Professor Sarah Pink, Monash University (Chair)
    Ishra Bakesh, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads
    Ian Christenson, iMove
    Professor Vaike Fors, Halmstad University and Drive Sweden
    Malin Labecker, Volvo Cars
    Thomas Lindgren, Volvo Cars and Halmstad University

    47 min
  • Methods for Future Automated Mobilities

    This discussion took place at the 2022 Future Automated Mobilities Symposium, held at RMIT University 20-21 October.


    How do we research, design and create interventions towards fair, trusted and safe future automated mobilities? What new research methods and techniques are available, and how might they be harnessed for interdisciplinary and engaged research and impact? Our world renowned methodologists will discuss these
    issues from social and computer science perspectives.

    Speakers:
    Dr Debora Lanzeni, Monash University (Chair)
    Professor Sarah Pink, Monash University
    Professor Noortje Marres, University of Warwick
    Professor Daniele Quercia, Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge, King’s College London
    Professor Flora Salim, University of New South Wales

    1 hr 6 min
  • Doing Good with Mobility Data

    This discussion took place at the 2022 Future Automated Mobilities Symposium, held at RMIT University 20-21 October.


    Our interdisciplinary panellists from academia and industry will discuss some key issues around the usage of mobility data in designing automated decision-making systems in the transport domain. How has this data been used for good, and good for whom? What are some of the principles we need to stick to?

    Speakers:
    Professor Flora Salim, University of New South Wales (Chair)
    Mandi Mees, National Transport Commission
    Professor Daniele Quercia, Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge, King’s College London
    Professor Andry Rakotonirainy, Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety (CARRS-Q), Queensland University of Technology

    57 min
  • Disability and Automated Mobilities

    This discussion took place at the 2022 Future Automated Mobilities Symposium, held at RMIT University 20-21 October.


    Inclusive design is a necessary element of future automated mobilities systems and technologies. Our panellists will explore the benefits of inclusive design of automated mobilities starting in the lives of people and physical sites where disability is lived and experienced. We will ask what the consequences will be if we do not do so?

    Speakers:

    Professor Sarah Pink, Monash University (Chair)
    Professor Gerard Goggin, University of Sydney
    Iris Maher, Monash University
    Helen Lindner, MACA
    Orhan Karagoz, University of Melbourne

    52 min
  • Automated Aerial Futures

    This discussion took place at the 2022 Future Automated Mobilities Symposium, held at RMIT University 20-21 October. 

    Disaster response, precision agriculture, border control, military logistics, and urban delivery all imagine different aerial futures, but each also depends on the transformation of air into skyways. This panel brings together experts on drones, remote sensing, and autonomous technologies to raise vital provocations about the future of the skies above us.

    Speakers

    Associate Professor Michael Richardson, University of New South Wales (Chair)
    Associate Professor Julia Powles, UWA
    Associate Professor Christine Agius, Swinburne University of Technology
    Dr Tim Neale, Deakin University

    48 min
  • How to Write a Book Proposal

    In this workshop held on 7 November 2022, Professor Deborah Lupton (author/co-author of 20 books and editor/co-editor of a further ten volumes) provides guidelines and advice on how to write a book proposal to achieve a publishing contract. Deborah discusses how to develop an idea for a book, what content should be in the proposal, and how best to scope publishers to approach. Throughout the presentation participants engaged in an online Q&A, to which Deborah actively responds to, as she presents.

    Deborah's blog: admscentre.org/luptonblog 
    46 min
  • The Implications of Dark Ads

    Advertising is becoming harder than ever before to hold accountable, which raises important concerns about the legacy of abuses that have characterised the industry. Predatory advertising, discrimination, and the circulation of false and harmful messaging are harder to detect and regulate online because there is no public archive of online ads. The Australian Ad Observatory provides one model for enlisting citizens to help provide transparency for online advertising.


    In this episode, the ADM+S Australian Ad Observatory team and two panels of experts discuss the issues raised by online advertising and how we might address them.

    Our first panel includes representatives from the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, consumer advocacy group CHOICE, the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), and the Consumer Policy Research Centre (CPRC).

    Our second panel includes representatives from the research team at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (ADM+S), the ABC and the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network. 

    You can watch the full recording of this event on our YouTube channel: admscentre.org/youtube


    View transcript: https://www.admscentre.org.au/transcript-implications-dark-ads/

    44 min
  • Bots as More Than Human?

    Humans have long defined, framed, and designed bots with the primary aim of passing as human and our collection imagination of what bots can do is often restrained by this focus. The question arising from this strong tendency, is whether humans are capable of imagining bots in another capacity. What is the purpose of designing bots that imitate humans, and could bots offer far more?

    Professor Daniel Angus chats with Dominique Carlon about the role of bots in society and how we may recognise that bots can perform interesting and diverse roles without the need to blur the line between bot and human. Dominique shares her research on the life stories of bots in Reddit’s platform culture in particular the role of Dad Bots on Reddit.


    View transcript: https://www.admscentre.org.au/transcript-bots-as-more-than-human/

    22 min
  • Automated Decision-Making in Transport and Mobilities

    Automated transport and mobility services have the potential to transform how we live and move. They offer new opportunities to address entrenched inequalities of access to mobility, relating to disability, age, economic status and location.

    However, to achieve these possibilities, the development of new technical capacities and data systems needs to be harnessed for the design of future transport and mobility services that fulfil the needs of people and social institutions.

    In this episode, Professor Daniel Angus sits down with Professor Sarah Pink and Professor Flora Salim, co-leads of the ADM+S Centre's Transport and Mobilities Focus Area, to discuss the real experienced limitations, flaws and inequities in automated transport and mobilities systems and technologies of the present, as well as possibilities for ADM systems to take us forward into trusted, fair and safe futures.

    Learn more about ADM in Transport and Mobilities at the Future Automated Mobilities Symposium: Towards hope, justice and care on 20- 21 October 2022: admscentre.org.au/fam2022


    View transcript: https://www.admscentre.org.au/transcript-adm-transport-and-mobilities/

    25 min

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