ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision Making and Society (CE200100005)

Characterizing Personality from Eye-Tracking: The Role of Gaze and Its Absence in Interactive Search Environments

Jiaman He, Marta Micheli, Damiano Spina, Dana McKay, Johanne R Trippas, Noriko Kando

2026-03-22

Personality traits influence how individuals engage, behave, and make decisions during the information-seeking process. However, f..

Beyond ‘Basic’ AI-Animal Alignment

S Coghlan, C Parker

2026-03-01

In their article ‘AI Alignment: The Case for Including Animals’, Tse et al. compellingly argue for extending alignment endeavours ..

AI Ethics Guidelines: Time to Include Animals

S Coghlan, C Parker, R Lederman

2026-02-01

Artificial intelligence (AI) ethics guidelines make strong appeals for ensuring that AI benefits human beings without unjustifiabl..

Can We Hide Machines in the Crowd? Quantifying Equivalence in LLM-in-the-loop Annotation Tasks

J He, Z Leng, D Mckay, D Spina, JR Trippas

2025-12-06

Many evaluations of large language models (LLMs) in text annotation focus primarily on the correctness of the output, typically co..

A Comparative Analysis of Linguistic and Retrieval Diversity in LLM-Generated Search Queries

O Zendel, SFD Al Lawati, L Rashidi, F Scholer, M Sanderson

2025-11-10

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate search queries for various Information Retrieval (IR) tasks. Howeve..

Data or content? The conceptual battles defining dataset markets

Jake Goldenfein

2025-10-01

<jats:p>Foundation models are a new frontier of value creation in the digital platform economy. These technologies rely on the pro..

”Nuisance is Better Than Nothing?”: Exploring How Pedestrians and Cyclists Perceive Automated E-Scooter Alerts in Shared Spaces

HN Kegalle, D Hettiachchi, J Chan, FD Salim, M Sanderson

2025-09-10

Electric scooters (e-scooters) offer flexible urban mobility but raise safety concerns in shared spaces. This study investigates h..

Control search rankings, control the world: what is a good search engine?

Simon Coghlan, Hui Xian Chia, Falk Scholer, Damiano Spina

2025-08-01

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This paper examines the ethical question, ‘What is a good search engine?’ Sinc..

Characterising Topic Familiarity and Query Specificity Using Eye-Tracking Data

J He, Z Leng, D McKay, JR Trippas, D Spina

2025-07-13

Eye-tracking data has been shown to correlate with a user’s knowledge level and query formulation behaviour. While previous work h..

When algorithmic management was new Engineered standards and the managerial prerogative in Australia

C O’Neill, L Kelly, J Goldenfein, T Phan, J Sadowski

2025-06-30

In this article we analyse the significance for critical logistics studies of a neglected chapter in industrial relations history,..

Beyond AI as an environmental pharmakon: Principles for reopening the problem-space of machine learning's carbon footprint

L Cellard, C Parker, F Haines

2025-06-01

In this paper, we critique a pervasive discourse about the environmental implications of artificial intelligence as witnessed in n..

Unhealthy food advertising on social media: policy lessons from the Australian Ad Observatory

T Northcott, K Sievert, C Russell, A Obeid, D Angus, C Parker

2025-04-01

The World Health Organization and public health experts are calling for urgent restrictions on the online marketing of unhealthy f..

Moderating mental health: Addressing the human–machine alignment problem through an adaptive logic of care

A McCosker, P Kamstra, J Farmer

2025-02-01

Covid-19 deepened the need for digital-based support for people experiencing mental ill-health. Discussion platforms have long fil..

HALO: Robust Out-of-Distribution Detection via Joint Optimisation

HL Keenan, S Erfani, C Leckie

2025-01-01

Effective out-of-distribution (ODD) detection is crucial for the safe deployment of machine learning models in real-world scenario..

The Catalan Digital Republic: Between Nation Branding and Nation Building

A Jiménez, E Garai-Artetxe

2025-01-01

This article empirically studies the Catalan Digital Republic, that is the set of practises, narratives, institutions, and infrast..

Digital arts and culture in Australia: Promissory discourses and uncertain realities in pandemic times

Indigo Holcombe-James, Jacinthe Flore, Natalie Ann Hendry

2024-08-01

This article critically interrogates the promissory discourse underpinning the cultural sectors’ ‘digital pivot’ in the wake of CO..

E-Scooter Dynamics: Unveiling Rider Behaviours and Interactions with Road Users through Multi-Modal Data Analysis

H Kegalle, D Hettiachchi, J Chan, F Salim, M Sanderson

2024-04-04

Electric scooters (e-scooters), characterised by their small size and lightweight design, have revolutionised urban commuting expe..

Beyond the ‘critical incident’: COVID-19, data journalism and the slow road to editorial automation in Australian newsrooms

SX Montaña-Niño, J Burgess

2024-03-01

This article draws on a qualitative interview-based study and the framework of the ‘critical incident’ to explore whether, how and..

Addressing the accountability gap: gambling advertising and social media platform responsibilities

C Parker, C Albarrán-Torres, C Briggs, J Burgess, N Carah, M Andrejevic, D Angus, A Obeid

2024-01-01

This commentary reports on gambling advertisements served to Australians on Facebook in 2021-2022 that we discovered through a res..

Computational Methods for Improving the Observability of Platform-Based Advertising

D Angus, L Hayden, AK Obeid, XY Tan, N Carah, J Burgess, C Parker, M Andrejevic, R Fordyce, L Cellard, J Bagnara

2024-01-01

The advertising ecosystem has been progressively reshaped by computational advertising models facilitated and controlled by digita..

Long-Term Fairness in Ride-Hailing Platform

Y Kang, J Chan, W Shao, FD Salim, C Leckie

2024-01-01

Matching in two-sided markets such as ride-hailing has recently received significant attention. However, existing studies on ride-..

The Devil's Advocate: Shattering the Illusion of Unexploitable Data using Diffusion Models

HM Dolatabadi, S Erfani, C Leckie

2024-01-01

Protecting personal data against exploitation of machine learning models is crucial. Recently, availability attacks have shown gre..

Adversarial Coreset Selection for Efficient Robust Training

HM Dolatabadi, SM Erfani, C Leckie

2023-12-01

It has been shown that neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: adding well-crafted, imperceptible perturbations to ..

TransCP: A Transformer Pointer Network for Generic Entity Description Generation With Explicit Content-Planning

BD Trisedya, J Qi, H Zheng, FD Salim, R Zhang

2023-12-01

We study neural data-to-text generation to generate a sentence to describe a target entity based on its attributes. Specifically, ..

Human-AI Cooperation to Tackle Misinformation and Polarization

D Spina, M Sanderson, D Angus, G Demartini, D McKay, LL Saling, RW White

2023-06-22

Harm to Nonhuman Animals from AI: a Systematic Account and Framework

S Coghlan, C Parker

2023-06-01

This paper provides a systematic account of how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies could harm nonhuman animals and explains..

Combining Worker Factors for Heterogeneous Crowd Task Assignment

S Wijenayake, D Hettiachchi, J Goncalves

2023-04-30

Optimising the assignment of tasks to workers is an effective approach to ensure high quality in crowdsourced data - particularly ..

Tech money in civil society: whose interests do digital rights organisations represent?

J Goldenfein, M Mann

2023-01-01

This article explores philanthropic interactions between ‘Big Tech’ and digital rights civil society organizations (DRCSOs) to enh..

Resilience in Web-Based Mental Health Communities: Building a Resilience Dictionary With Semiautomatic Text Analysis

YB Kang, A McCosker, P Kamstra, J Farmer

2022-09-01

Background: Resilience is an accepted strengths-based concept that responds to change, adversity, and crises. This concept underpi..

Where Do Queries Come From?

M Alaofi, L Gallagher, D McKay, LL Saling, M Sanderson, F Scholer, D Spina, RW White

2022-07-07

Where do queries - the words searchers type into a search box - come from? The Information Retrieval community understands the per..

Countering hate speech in context: positive freedom of speech

A de Silva, AT Kenyon

2022-01-01

Hate speech analyses commonly evaluate restrictions on speech or the value of speaking back. Free speech’s negative dimensions are..

Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech

T Phan, J Goldenfein, M Mann, D Kuch

2022-01-01

It is used by corporations to create legitimacy and to further accumulate value. The result is that &#39;ethics&#39; has now becom..

Reclaiming archives: Guest editorial

L Barwick, S Huebner, L Ormond-Parker, S Treloyn

2021-12-01

Highlighting perspectives from First Nations peoples whose cultural heritage is held in archives of various types, this article se..

Managing the risks of artificial intelligence in agriculture

Robert Sparrow, Mark Howard, Chris Degeling

2021-01-01

In this paper, we survey the ethical, social, and policy issues that are likely to arise as Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to..