2024 ADM+S SYMPOSIUM: AUTOMATED MOBILITIES & PUBLIC FILM SCREENING EVENT
Science Theatre, F13
Registration
From 8.30am
Coffee cart available
9.00AM
Science Theatre, F13
WELCOME
9.15AM
SESSION 01
MOBILITIES PRIVACY AND ACCOUNTABILITY
- The Body as Border: Facial Recognition and Granular Surveillance – Prof Mark Andrejevic & Dr Christopher O’Neill
- Adversarial Image Detection in Vision Language Pre-training Models – Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi. Supervisors: Prof Christopher Leckie & Prof Sarah Erfani
- Evaluating Visual and Auditory Safety Alerts for E-Scooters: A Naturalistic Study – Hiruni Kegalle, Dr Danula Hettiachchi, Assoc Prof Jeffrey Chan, Prof Flora Salim & Prof Mark Sanderson
- Automation and Fintech in Southeast Asia – Prof Heather A. Horst, Dr Erin B. Taylor & Dr Isaac Lyne
Session Speakers
Prof Sarah Pink
Session Chair
10.15AM
Morning Tea
10.45AM
SESSION 02
MOBILITIES DATA CAPTURE AND BEHAVIOURS
- The Mobile Ad Data Toolkit – Prof Daniel Angus (presenter), Dr Abdul Obeid, Lauren Hayden, Assoc Prof Nicholas Carah
- High Speed Surveillance: The Risk (Governance) of Connected Vehicles – Dr Jathan Sadowski (presenter), Dr Emma Quilty
- Large Language Models for Next Point-of-Interest Recommendation – Peibo Li (presenter), Prof Maarten de Rijke, Dr Hao Xue, Assoc Prof Yang Song, Prof Flora Salim
- Bad Maps? On the challenges of providing ethical navigation advice in at scale – Laura Neil, William He, Dr Aaron Snoswell (presenter)
Session Speakers
Dist Prof Jean Burgess
Session chair
11.45AM
SESSION 03
MOBILITIES ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSION
- Older People Moving in their Homes: How Older Adults’ Mobility Challenges Industry and Governments Visions – Miguel Gomez Hernandez (presenter), Berwyn Kwek (presenter) Sharifah Rose
- Understanding Travel Experiences of Older Adults in Interacting with Digital Transport Services: Exploring Methodological Approaches – Jiyoon Lee (presenter), Supervisors: Prof Sarah Pink and Assoc Prof Selby Coxon
- Agentic AI Workflows & Simulation for Decision Making – Prof Flora Salim
- A Thousand Kilometre Trip to the Bank: The Impact of the Digital Gap on Access to Services in Remote First Nations Communities – Daniel Featherstone
Session Speakers
Dist Prof Julian Thomas
Session Chair
12.45PM
Lunch
With optional lunch time activites starting at 1.15pm (listed below)
1.15pm
HDR/ECR POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Higher degree and early career researchers are allocated 3 minutes each to present their research posters.
Vote for the People’s Choice Award here
Voting closes 3pm (AEDT), Wednesday 16 October. Winners are announced at the end of the symposium.
1.15pm
TOUR (30 mins)
ROBOTICS LAB
Meet outside Science Theatre. Walk to Ainsworth Building J17, Level 5
Interact with Ari the social robot and play soccer with one of the robots that recently competed in Robocup 2024.
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1.15pm
ACTIVITY
EVALUATING VISUAL AND AUDITORY SAFETY ALERTS FOR E-SCOOTERS: A NATURALISTIC STUDY
Meet outside the Science Theatre. Walk to bike path outside Village Green Cafe
Experience the e-scooter research led by Hiruni Kegalle, providing e-scooter route and parking recommendations to riders while minimizing the impact on third-party users.
Read more
1.45PM
DOCUMENTARY FILM (13 mins)
AI IN THE STREET: DRONE OBSERVATORY
Directed by Thao Phan & Jeni Lee
Since 2019, the city of Logan, Queensland has been host to one of the world’s largest commercial drone delivery trials. Run by the California-based company Wing Aviation, the trials involve the live-testing of AI-powered drone delivery systems on everyday streets. This short documentary asks local residents about their experiences of the Wing drone delivery trials and what life is like living in an AI testbed.
2.00PM
SESSION 04
MOBILITIES SYSTEMS AND DEPLOYMENT
- Automating Maintenance in the Smart City: AI Governance for Mobile Machine Vision – Dr Yong-Bin Kang (presenter), Professor Anthony McCosker, Dr Milovan Savic
- Optimising Electric Vehicle Charging Capability in NSW – Lihuan Li (presenter), Du Yin, Dr Hao Xue, Prof Flora Salim
- Testing-in-the-Wild: Innovation Nationalism and the Colonial Dynamics of New Technology Testbeds – Dr Thao Phan
- Unlocking the Sky: Creating Proof-of-Concept for Future Aerial Mobilities through Drone Delivery – Dr Jake Goldenfein and Assoc Prof Michael Richardson (presentes), Dr Thao Phan
Session Speakers
Prof Flora Salim
Session Chair
3.00PM
Afternoon Tea
3.30PM
SESSION 05
MOBILITIES FUTURES
- 5G and the promise of automated mobilities – Assoc Prof James Meese (presenter), Assoc Prof Rowan Wilken, Prof Catherine Middleton
- LLMs for Human Mobility Simulation – Dr Hao Xue (presenter), Prof Flora Salim
- The automotive handover: Designing for automation in driver assistance and navigation – Assoc Prof Rowan Wilken (presenter) & Prof Julian Thomas
- Imagining inclusive and safe future automated mobilities – Prof Sarah Pink (presenter), Dr Vaike Fors, Hannah Korsmeyer
Session Speakers
Assoc Prof Michael Richardson
Session Chair
4.30PM
Closing remarks
4.40PM
HDR/ECR Poster Competition winners announced (Best Poster & People’s Choice Award)
ADM+S Research Poster People’s Choice Award announced
Presented by Simon Polson (CEO of National and State Libraries Australasia)
4.50PM
Closing remarks
5.00PM
End of day program
PUBLIC FILM SCREENING EVENT
6.00PM
PRE-EVENT REFRESHMENTS
6.30PM
PUBLIC FILM SCREENING EVENT
Human Touch in a Digital World: A Film Exploration of Technology’s Impact for Society
Join us for the screening of a series of short documentary films exploring how different members of society engage and interact with automation and digital technologies. This free, public event will feature 4 short films, each followed by Q&A with the creators.
SUPERBOTS (8 MIN)
This upbeat and inspiring short film, observes and engages with students from Brentwood Secondary College during their two-day interactive Industry Immersion program ‘Superbots’, where girls ideate, test and construct their own voicebot personality.
SUPERBOTS: Q&A
Rebecca Taylor
END OF THE LINE (10 MIN)
Patchy and unreliable mobile and internet connectivity impacts the everyday lives of First Nations people living in remote Australia. On Erub, on the eastern end of Zenadth Kes (the Torres Strait Islands), mobile access is critical for cultural and language revitalization and preservation, general communication especially, safety out on the sea.
END OF THE LINE: Q&A
NON-HUMAN SUPPORTS USED BY AUTISTIC PEOPLE FOR CONNECTION, HEALTH AND WELLBEING (10 MIN)
This film is part of the ADM+S UNSW Node’s autistic-led project ‘Non-human supports used by autistic people for connection, care and wellbeing’. It involves three autistic people talking about how they use digital and non-digital objects, practices and creatures to help them meet their needs.
NON-HUMAN SUPPORTS USED BY AUTISTIC PEOPLE FOR CONNECTION, HEALTH AND WELLBEING : Q&A
I AM NOT A NUMBER (20 MIN)
What is it like for people interacting with digital government systems? The Australian Government aspires to lead the world in digital innovation. Initiatives in digital governance have seen the introduction of algorithms for NDIS support planning.
I AM NOT A NUMBER : Q&A
8.30PM
Event ends