AI in Private Spaces
This research stream considers the ethics and law of AI in private spaces. This includes monitoring technologies for remote work, AI assistants, AI tools in healthcare, family tracking technologies and care robots.
AI in Private Spaces Seminar Series
Research projects
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Questioning the Chatbot
Prof Jeannie Paterson, Prof Reeva Lederman and Dr Simon Coghlan with Dr Yvette Maker (UTas)
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Mind Your Business: Surveillance technologies for workplace safety and wellbeing
Prof Jeannie Paterson, Prof Tim Miller and Dr Simon Coghlan with Gabby Bush and Liam Harding
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AI Helpers
Prof Jeannie Paterson, Dr Yvette Maker, Prof Megan Richardson and Dr Damian Clifford
Projects from CAIDE Seed Funding
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Tracking kids: Use and repurposing of wearable and mobile devices
This project was awarded funding under the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics' 2021 seed funding round: Pervasive Devices.
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Looking into the Psychiatric Panopticon: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of Automated Nursing Observations in Acute Psychiatric Settings
This project was awarded funding under the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics' 2021 seed funding round: Pervasive Devices.
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Physical place, digital space, and the pervasive devices that bind them: understanding our ever-connected world
This project was awarded funding under the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics' 2021 seed funding round: Pervasive Devices.
Publications
Simon Coghlan, Jenny Waycott, Amanda Lazar, and Barbara Barbosa Neves. 2021. Dignity, Autonomy, and Style of Company: Dimensions Older Adults Consider for Robot Companions. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW1, Article 104 (April 2021), 25 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3449178
Paterson, Jeannie and Yvette Maker. (2022) AI in the Home: Artificial Intelligence and Consumer Protection. To be published in Ernest Lim and Phillip Morgan (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming)
Media Pieces
'Are robots the answer for aged care during pandemics?' Simon Coghlan and Gabby Bush, Pursuit, 28 July 2021.
Researchers
- Jeannie Paterson
Professor
Co-Director
Melbourne Law School
University of Melbourne
- Dr Yvette Maker
School of Law
University of Tasmania
- Megan Richardson
Professor
Melbourne Law School
University of Melbourne
- Reeva Lederman
Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
University of Melbourne
- Dr Simon Coghlan
Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
University of Melbourne