Research projects at the ADM+S Centre range across automated systems, from autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles to the recommendation systems deployed in digital media. Researchers work on technologies from machine learning to blockchain. Projects are concerned with a wide spectrum of problems from digital inclusion to disinformation, addressing developments primarily in Australia and the Global South. Centre projects include:
Australian Search Experience project This research project is investigating if and how search results on Google differ for different people using a crowd-sourcing process recruited from Australian internet users. It follows on from a similar project run by Algorithm Watch in Germany in 2017. As of August 2020, the results indicated that search personalisation is limited; however for some topics, such as
COVID-19, there might be a high level of curation.
Considerate and Accurate Multi-party Recommender Systems for Constrained Resources This project aims to develop a next generation
recommender system that enables equitable allocation of constrained resources. The project will produce novel hybrid socio-technical methods and resources to create a Considerate and Accurate REcommender System (CARES), evaluated with social science and behavioural economics lenses. CARES aims to transform the sharing economy by delivering systems and methods that improve user and non-user experiences, business efficiency, and corporate social responsibility.
Automated decision-making and the law Centre researchers Dan Hunter and
Kimberlee Weatherall are investigating the role of
artificial intelligence,
natural language processing and other technologies which are having a major impact on decision-making and administration across the legal system. == Funding and partners ==