The Health Focus Area examines the introduction of ADM into healthcare and public health in Australia and elsewhere to promote ethical and inclusive applications with broad social benefits.
Australia has a burgeoning digital health sector in which ADM is beginning to be implemented in attempts to offer greater access to healthcare, enhanced treatment protocols, better disease diagnosis, monitoring and prediction models, and more personally tailored care.
However, many consumer and industry organisations, including some of our partner organisations, have identified potential risks posed by ADM to trust, access and transparency in healthcare and public health.
ADM introduced into the health sector could exacerbate health inequalities and increase the marginalising of people with disabilities and those with stigmatised conditions.
Research conducted in this Focus Area will monitor the introduction of ADM into healthcare and public health in Australia and elsewhere to ensure ethical and inclusive implementation that will benefit all social groups.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
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.
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.
This project will examine existing practices in the collection and use of sexual data by both private and public actors.
Assessing prospective harms vs prospective benefits associated with ADM as a first step to amelioration.
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?
Creating a replicable framework for building capacity (expertise, literacy, data partnerships and data governance) to unlock the social value and impact of advanced data analytics, AI and ADM across the not-for-profit sector.
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
Recent developments in machine learning and information access communities attempt to define fairness-aware metrics to incorporate into these frameworks. This project will address a number of research questions related to quantifying and measuring bias and engagement that remain unexplored.
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.
How might platform regulators and moderators better distinguish between education and information content, and other forms of sexual texts and imagery on social media platforms?
Considering ethical approaches in the area of automated decision-making (ADM) and civic life with a focus on civic commitments and concerns.
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.