Recent projects
Hello Barbie! Voice recognition, cultural values, and privacy-by-design in entertainment voicetech for children
This project examines entertainment products designed for children using voice-recognition software to identify products available on the global marketplace, and examine and compare their privacy controls, terms of service, and embedded cultural values within their design. A series of workshops with potential industry partners and scholars will be held to scope future research questions, directions and collaborations. The aim of the outputs identified in this application are to demonstrate a track record between the project team to support a future grant application.
Ethical Data Governance of Sex Tech
This project brings together industry, civil society and academia to workshop how innovative sexual technologies can be governed at scale in ways that prioritise public interest benefit and feminist data ethics, in order to reduce the harmful impacts of algorithmic sexual profiling. Comprised of two components – an industry workshop and a community hackathon – the project will operate in partnership between three ADM+S nodes (QUT, Swinburne and RMIT), global software consultancy firm Thoughtworks and the international Sex Tech School, an established private training academy for sextech start-ups and professionals. The workshop will involve facilitated conversations about ethical data governance as part of the Sex Tech School, while the hackathon will build on these insights to investigate how community stakeholders understand inclusive sex technologies for public benefit. With a built-in research component to collect data, we will produce two high impact Q1 journal articles, a community report and two podcast episodes, which will apply theoretical frameworks on data feminism, accountable governance, public interest technology and counter-surveillance to the contemporary sex tech field.
This project examines entertainment products designed for children using voice-recognition software to identify products available on the global marketplace, and examine and compare their privacy controls, terms of service, and embedded cultural values within their design. A series of workshops with potential industry partners and scholars will be held to scope future research questions, directions and collaborations. The aim of the outputs identified in this application are to demonstrate a track record between the project team to support a future grant application.
Ethical Data Governance of Sex Tech
This project brings together industry, civil society and academia to workshop how innovative sexual technologies can be governed at scale in ways that prioritise public interest benefit and feminist data ethics, in order to reduce the harmful impacts of algorithmic sexual profiling. Comprised of two components – an industry workshop and a community hackathon – the project will operate in partnership between three ADM+S nodes (QUT, Swinburne and RMIT), global software consultancy firm Thoughtworks and the international Sex Tech School, an established private training academy for sextech start-ups and professionals. The workshop will involve facilitated conversations about ethical data governance as part of the Sex Tech School, while the hackathon will build on these insights to investigate how community stakeholders understand inclusive sex technologies for public benefit. With a built-in research component to collect data, we will produce two high impact Q1 journal articles, a community report and two podcast episodes, which will apply theoretical frameworks on data feminism, accountable governance, public interest technology and counter-surveillance to the contemporary sex tech field.