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Empowering communities with DataCare: ethical data practices for smart cities
Smart cities hold immense potential for progress, but their success hinges on citizen empowerment and ethical data practices. Our research initiative, DataCare, aims at reshaping the landscape of smart cities by prioritising citizens, communities, and small businesses. This project, developed in collaboration with Brisbane Residents United (BRU), focuses on transforming smart cities from profit-driven entities to community-led developments.BRU is a community association serving as a vital grassroots advocacy and peer support network for suburban and local resident groups across Greater …
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Design
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- Digital Media Research Centre
Design Lab
Immersive audio data visualisation for better engagement of residential communities exposed to aircraft noise pollution
This PhD project addresses the significant issue of misleading noise data in the context of residential communities exposed to aircraft noise pollution. Despite efforts by authorities to provide noise exposure forecasts and information based on the Australian Noise Exposure Forecast (ANEF) approach, many communities feel misled by the noise contours presented to them. Experiences from previous major development projects at Australian airports have shown a range of problems with relying solely on the ANEF as a noise information tool as …
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Design
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Design Lab
Australian experiences of algorithmic culture on TikTok
Join a world-leading research team examining how recommender systems are shaping personalised and shared experiences of algorithmic culture in Australia. The project is focused on TikTok and engages with both professional TikTok creators and users using innovative computational and traditional research approaches.The empirical work is structured into three streams:In the Platform Stream we observe the type of content TikTok recommends on the least-personalised version of the platform, to create a close-to-generic baseline of the Australian experience of algorithmic culture on …
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- PhD
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Communication
- Research centre(s)
- Digital Media Research Centre
Teaching and learning entrepreneurial capabilities in diverse educational contexts
Projects may address entrepreneurial skills, behaviours and attributes as learnable human capabilities across a diverse range of educational contexts. Sub-topics may include entrepreneurial alertness, risk taking and productive failure, values formation and creation, agency-passivity, emancipatory entrepreneurialism, antifragility, entrepreneurial leadership, global mindset, emotive experiences and interplay with learning for entrepreneurial capabilities, opportunity creation.
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Education
My flow: Menstrual cycle Femtech for elite athlete performance optimisation through wearable technology
There is a need for additional studies to monitor on-field performance parameters in female elite athletes (Meignié 2021). We know that wearable sensors can be used to monitor the physiological and biochemical profile of athletes (Seshadri 2019), and a combination of several wearables is going to be more effective for accessing all relevant parameters (Düking 2016). However, there is limited research on the effects of menstrual cycle phases on elite athlete performance (Meignié 2021).This proposed research aims to bridge the …
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- PhD
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Design
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Design Lab
Elevating performance: Innovative design strategies for body-worn (diagnostic or biosensing) devices
How does technology help us to support a person’s sense of wellbeing and/or performance? Beyond technology and metrics, how do a body-worn (electronic/biosensing) device be designed to fit the person in different contexts of use and different performance needs? We are investigating the role of designing with sensor technology (sensor technology agnostic) in body-worn devices from a Human Centred (HCD) lens, and Research through Design (RtD) approach.In today's fast-paced world, the pursuit of optimal human performance has become a paramount …
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- PhD
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Design
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Design Lab
What does the future of fashion look like?
The future of fashion consumption is changing rapidly. A new digital fashion economy is emerging at the intersection of fashion, law and social change.Incumbent fashion houses are now staking their territorial claims in the digital realm.At the same time, traditional markets for fashion have failed, and manufacturing has been largely offshored, while consumers are increasingly more informed about the impact of fashion consumption.
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- PhD
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Design
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Design Lab
The failure of the market for fashion
The market for fashion, clothing and textiles has failed, causing an externality characterised by overconsumption, oversupply and resulting largely in textile waste. Legislative change at a geopolitical level seeks to address these issues, however, there are numerous actors involved with diverse interests.
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- PhD
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Design
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Design Lab
Designing micromobility for equitable and responsible use
Shared electric micromobility (e.g., e-bike, e-scooter) schemes are common in Australian cities, and all over the world. Despite their rapid growth in recent years, there are many challenges faced by operators and local jurisdictions. This includes Illegal and antisocial behaviours, inconveniences caused by vehicle placement, inequitable access, and narrow rider demographics (i.e., gendered activity with predominantly young male users).Electric micromobility is positioned as an important transport modality as urban populations expand and there is increasing strain placed on existing transport …
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- PhD
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Design
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Design Lab
Reimagining air travel passenger experience
Air travel is poised for systemic transformation due to the advent and implementation of emerging technologies. For example, electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft have the potential to deliver sustainable, efficient, and fast, short-range mobility in urban environments. Advances in fuel and propulsion systems, such as those used in hydrogen electric aircraft, could have broader impact, delivering aspirations of zero carbon aviation.Given the nascent qualities of such technology advances, it is unclear how they will affect passenger experience. Currently, air …
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- PhD
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Design
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Design Lab
Local sustainable procurement to support a circular local industry in fashion and textiles
The textile industry is one of the world’s largest, with global sales in 2016 of USD 1.5 trillion. It is also one of the most polluting industries, producing 20% of global wastewater, and contributing to 10% of carbon emissions. Fashion generates large amounts of waste, and has negative social and health impacts for workers.According to the European Community Action Plan (ECAP 2019), sustainable procurement has the potential to transform the fashion and textile industry acting as a driver for local …
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- PhD
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Design
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Design Lab
Road map to local circular communities: strategies, barriers, enablers.
The textile industry is one of the world’s largest, with global sales in 2016 of USD 1.5 trillion. It is also one of the most polluting industries, producing 20% of global wastewater, and contributing to 10% of carbon emissions. Fashion generates large amounts of waste, and has negative social and health impacts for workers.Circular economy would address these issues, keep clothes and textiles at their highest value and keep clothes in continuous circulation. The transformation of the sector requires a …
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- PhD
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- Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
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- School of Design
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Design Lab
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