The Mobilities Focus Area investigates the uses and implications of automated decision-making in the fields of transport, energy, and migration.
ADM has already begun to transform how we live and move, and is likely to have greater impacts on the movement of humans, animals and resources in the near future.
The Mobilities Focus Area brings together research from across ADM+S, connecting personal, shared, commercial and public systems, services, and technologies for understanding, modelling and enhancing mobility practices and behaviours.
We address sectors including public transport, mobility and navigation services, active transport, retail and public spaces, mobile media and applications, migration services, and energy systems.
We identify the new risks and benefits that mobilities automation creates, and the possibilities for ethical, responsible and inclusive automation for mobility systems and their diverse users.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Investigating the impact of Generative AI on organisational structures and inter-organisational interactions and creating robust AI systems better designed for organisational use.
Investigating the challenges and opportunities for cultural and linguistic diversity in automated decision-making and AI across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Examining the assumptions and community impacts of proposed solutions to the problem of authenticity in Generative AI and exploring novel technical responses that contribute to more responsible, ethical and inclusive ADM systems.
Developing and testing a novel suite of generative and data driven simulations, useful for depicting current and future urban scenarios, including in mobility, urban policymaking, and health domains.
Addressing the knowledge, skills and literacies – the critical capabilities – needed to achieve inclusive AI in Australia.
Advancing knowledge about the impacts and entanglements of ADM and AI with ecosystems and multi species and the capacity of institutions to make responsible decisions about ADM and AI applications on the environment and animals.
This project seeks to generate better understandings of the functions, capacities, and normative role of humans within automated decision systems.
This project seeks to generate better understandings of the functions, capacities, and normative role of humans within automated decision systems.
Our premise is that everyone should have the opportunity to benefit from digital technologies: to manage their health, access education and services, participate in cultural activities, organise their finances, follow news and media, and connect with family, friends, and the wider world.
This project investigates the extent to which automated decision-making systems impact the provision of consumer insurance via pricing algorithms which may produce unfair outcomes for particular subsets of society by engaging in proxy and price discrimination.
This project explores the role of testing, prototyping, trialling and other techniques of controlled experimentation for AI and other automated decision-making systems in Australia.
Examining the ways in which automated decision-making systems impact public and shared space via sensors that produce actionable digital simulations, artefacts, and interfaces.
This project seeks to scope several approaches to deal with Automated Decision-Making and Decision-Support Systems-Related Risks (ADM/DSS RR) through norms and provide an evaluation of those approaches for their consideration in regulatory contexts.
In partnership with She’s A Crowd, this research project investigates the shortfalls of automated decision-making (ADM) within the rideshare sector through a short docu-drama.
Working with Brimbank City Council and a wider reference group, the project team will co-design a robust AI governance strategy to guide the policies and practices for the development and deployment of AI systems.
Assessing prospective harms vs prospective benefits associated with ADM as a first step to amelioration.
This project unpicks the detail of the conceptual frameworks that inform ADM as well as the ways they are engaged in the everyday work practices of developers, designers, businesses and policy makers.
By documenting experiences of the so-called 17%, the people who see the world differently, this project reveals biases and threats of automated transport mobilities and also uncovers creative opportunity and innovation.
Flight Paths, Freeways and Railroads is a series of short film vignettes exploring how diverse participants currently experience transport mobilities and how automated technologies might be part of our future lives.
Our research addresses how shifts in and imaginaries of mobilities technologies, services, communities and personal trajectories are changing the landscape of everyday mobility, and reframes emerging automated and connected mobility technologies and data as part of inclusive and diverse everyday worlds and respectful, responsible futures.
Experimenting with creative methods to explore future visions of automated mobilities in Australia.
Identifying the opportunities, enablers and barriers for public interest litigation to promote accountability and fairness in automated decision-making.
What shapes the environmental impacts of data centres cooling infrastructures?
Unpacking the biases in models that may come from the underlying data, or biases in software that could be designed with a specific purpose and angle from the developers’ point-of-view
Examining the challenges to, and opportunities for, liberal and democratic institutions and governance presented by ADM.
Developing a theoretically rich analysis of democracy and freedom given ADM.
Considering ethical approaches in the area of automated decision-making (ADM) and civic life with a focus on civic commitments and concerns.
Exploring the role of everyday data practices and literacies in automated decision-making.
Examining common themes with respect to the issues raised by the collection, storage, and use of data for ADM across object domains.
Examining the ways in which automated decision-making (ADM) is being integrated into the lives of diverse and non-dominant communities across Australia.
Considering ethical approaches in the area of automated decision-making (ADM) and civic life with a focus on civic commitments and concerns.
Considering ethical approaches in the area of automated decision-making (ADM) and civic life with a focus on civic commitments and concerns.
Forming new approaches that combines fairness, privacy and legal guarantees for ADM systems, such as recommender and machine learning based systems.
This project will create a next generation recommender system that enables equitable allocation of constrained resources.
This project is a review of the current state of ADM implementation, practices and visions in different regions in the Global South.