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Communication and Media Studies | Communication And Media Studies | Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies | Digital and Interaction Design | Information Systems | Computer-Human Interaction | Urban Sociology And Community Studies | Other Education | Social and Cultural Geography | Educational Technology and Computing | Social and Community Informatics | Human-computer interaction | Automotive mechatronics and autonomous systems | Computer-Human Interaction | Urban And Regional Planning | Human-centred computing | Urban And Regional Studies
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Urban planning | Expanding Knowledge in the Information and Computing Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture | Technological and organisational innovation | The creative arts | Superannuation and Insurance Services | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Communication services not elsewhere classified | Information services not elsewhere classified | Computer software and services not elsewhere classified | Housing | Library and Archival Services | Other social development and community services | Families and Family Services | Communication equipment not elsewhere classified |
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Fostering digital participation and communication through social living labs: a qualitative case study from regional Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-02-2018
1300 pieces of rubbish: A collaborative approach to making sense of everyday resource sufficiency in the home
Publisher: ACM
Date: 03-07-2020
Today's Internet for tomorrow's cities: On algorithmic culture and urban imaginaries
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2020
DIY / DIWO Media Architecture: The InstaBooth
Publisher: De Gruyter
Date: 20-02-2017
The impact of peer-to-peer accommodation on place authenticity
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2021
The premise of institutioning for the proliferation of communities and technologies research
Publisher: ACM
Date: 03-06-2019
Tales of Institutioning and Commoning
Publisher: ACM
Date: 15-06-2020
More-than-human city-region foresight: multispecies entanglements in regional governance and planning
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 31-03-2023
A blockchain-based multisignature approach for supply chain governance: A use case from the Australian beef industry
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2022
The publics of design: Challenges for design research and practice
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
Ergonomics in apiculture: A case study based on inspecting movable frame hives for healthy bee activities
Publisher: Ryerson University Library and Archives
Date: 19-07-2023
DOI: 10.32920/23709957
Abstract: The agricultural sector suffers from high risk of injury and damage to human health. There is considerable research not only identifying these risks but also finding ways to mitigate them. Beekeeping or apiculture, recognised as part of this sector, has many risk factors such as heavy lifting, high degree of manual materials handling, twisting, and awkward positioning common to all agriculture areas. It also has some unique risks such as those resulting from bee stings and smokers. However, there is much less attention focused on the health and safety of apiculture to the human beekeepers, and much more attention focused on bee health and safety. An ergonomics case study on beekeeping inspection tasks involving three independent, local beekeepers showed that many tasks involve awkward positions of the body, arms and hands, excessive lifting well beyond recommended weight limits, eye strain, and chemical and sting exposure. In addition, beekeepers are more interested in bee and hive health rather than reducing human-centred risk factors such as those due to excessive lifting. Standard ergonomics interventions such as a magnifier inspection and lift assist systems as well as interventions unique to beekeeping such as a smokeless method of calming bees are recommended. The beekeeping industry seems to have been forgotten in the modernisation of technology and agricultural practices. This paper offers some initial insights into possible points for research, development and improvements.
Creative Futuring for More-Than-Human Worlds: Exhibitions as Sites to Ponder Environmental Governance
Publisher: MIT Press
Date: 22-09-2023
DOI: 10.1162/LEON_A_02431
Abstract: The article presents Smart Urban Governance for More-than-Human Future(s) anthology comprising six speculative creative works. It draws on techniques of futuring as a methodology to explore how creative practice as an act of futuring and exhibitions as sites to ponder environmental governance can empower more-than-human futures. Reporting on participatory observations and semi-structured interviews with the exhibition audience, the article contributes that creative futuring can empower futures by developing awareness that environmental governance can facilitate nonhuman agencies that conserve and repair the ecological world.
Social and Spatial Precursors to Innovation: The Diversity Advantage of the Creative Fringe
Publisher: University of Waterloo
Date: 07-11-2018
Abstract: Innovation spaces and hubs are increasing in numbers internationally. Entrepreneurs and start-up founders who use these spaces and hubs are often unaware of being inside an echo chamber, i.e. a filter bubble they share with only like-minded people who have similar ideas and approaches to innovation. Digital technologies that use algorithms can aggravate these echo chambers by filtering towards improved personalised experience and preferences. Yet, social inclusion fosters erse ideas and creativity, hence, has a positive impact on innovation. We studied the social navigation patterns of entrepreneurs and start-up founders, and their awareness and opinion about homogeneity in innovation spaces. This data informed the design of a tool to escape their echo chambers. The tool gives its users the opportunity to discover networks and innovation spaces that are at the creative fringe, that is, marginalised from mainstream spaces and hubs for creativity and innovation. Our findings show that users of innovation spaces often find themselves surrounded by like-minded people. Further, our study participants welcomed the ability to identify fringe spaces in order to discover and access more erse people and ideas. Our approach seeks to unlock the ersity advantage of the creative fringe for the purpose of creativity and innovation.
A Post-Capitalocentric Critique of Digital Technology and Environmental Harm: New Directions at the Intersection of Digital and Green Criminology
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 03-2022
DOI: 10.5204/IJCJSD.2191
Abstract: Only recently have scholars of criminology begun to examine a wider spectrum of the effects of digital technologies beyond ‘cybercrime’ to include human rights, privacy, data extractivism and surveillance. Such accounts, however, remain anthropocentric and capitalocentric. They do not fully consider the environmental impacts caused by the manufacture, consumption, use and disposal of digital technologies under conditions of ecologically unequal exchange. The worst impacts of extractivism and pollution are borne by societies and ecosystems in the world’s economic periphery and contribute to an acceleration of planetary ecocide. Three ex les illustrate our argument: (1) deep-sea mining of metals and minerals (2) the planned obsolescence of digital devices while limiting the right to repair and (3) the disposal of e-waste. Acknowledging the urgent need to reorient the trajectory of technology innovation towards more-than-human futures, we advance some ideas from the field of design research—that is, the field of scholarly inquiry into design practices—on how to decouple technological progress from neoliberal economic growth. We venture outside criminology and offer a glimpse into how design researchers have recently begun a similar reflective engagement with post-anthropocentric critiques, which can inspire new directions for research across digital and green criminology.
A new toolkit for land value analysis and scenario planning
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 18-05-2020
Abstract: In the digital era of big data, data analytics and smart cities, a new generation of planning support systems is emerging. The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer is a novel planning support system developed to help planners and policy-makers determine the likely land value uplift associated with the provision of new city infrastructure. The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer toolkit was developed following a user-centred research approach including iterative design, prototyping and evaluation. Tool development was informed by user inputs obtained through a series of co-design workshops with two end-user groups: land valuers and urban planners. The paper outlines the underlying technical architecture of the toolkit, which has the ability to perform rapid calculations and visualise the results, for the end-users, through an online mapping interface. The toolkit incorporates an ensemble of hedonic pricing models to calculate and visualise value uplift and so enable the user to explore what if? scenarios. The toolkit has been validated through an iterative case study approach. Use cases were related to two policy areas: property and land valuation processes (for land taxation purposes) and value uplift scenarios (for value capture purposes). The cases tested were in Western Sydney, Australia. The paper reports on the results of the ordinary least square linear regressions – used to explore the impacts of hedonic attributes on property value at the global level – and geographically weighted regressions – developed to provide local estimates and explore the varying spatial relationships between attributes and house price across the study area. Building upon the hedonic modelling, the paper also reports the value uplift functionality of the Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer toolkit that enables users to drag and drop new train stations and rapidly calculate expected property prices under a range of future transport scenarios. The Rapid Analytics Interactive Scenario Explorer toolkit is believed to be the first of its kind to provide this specific functionality. As it is problem and policy specific, it can be considered an ex le of the next generation of data-driven planning support system.
Differential lung tissue gene expression in males and females: implications for the susceptibility to develop COPD.
Publisher: European Respiratory Society (ERS)
Date: 04-06-2019
Creativity and design to articulate difference in the conflicted city: collective intelligence in Bogota's grassroots organisations
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-04-2018
Can cities become smart without being sustainable? A systematic review of the literature
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Towards a more-than-human approach to smart and sustainable urban development: Designing for multispecies justice
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 14-01-2022
DOI: 10.3390/SU14020948
Abstract: The term ‘sustainability’ has become an overused umbrella term that encompasses a range of climate actions and environmental infrastructure investments however, there is still an urgent need for transformative reform work. Scholars of urban studies have made compelling cases for a more-than-human conceptualisation of urban and environmental planning and also share a common interest in translating theory into practical approaches and implications that recognise (i) our ecological entanglements with planetary systems and (ii) the urgent need for multispecies justice in the reconceptualisation of genuinely sustainable cities. More-than-human sensibility draws on a range of disciplines and encompasses conventional and non-conventional research methods and design approaches. In this article, we offer a horizon scan type of review of key posthuman and more-than-human literature sources at the intersection of urban studies and environmental humanities. The aim of this review is to (i) contribute to the emerging discourse that is starting to operationalise a more-than-human approach to smart and sustainable urban development, and (ii) to articulate a nascent framework for more-than-human spatial planning policy and practice.
Rat running the G20: Collective intelligence for navigating the disrupted city
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-07-2018
Enabling cross-border trade in the face of regulatory barriers to data flow – the case of the blockchain-based service network
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 02-12-2022
Early transcriptional responses of bronchial epithelial cells to whole cigarette smoke mirror those of in-vivo exposed human bronchial mucosa
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-09-2022
DOI: 10.1186/S12931-022-02150-2
Abstract: Despite the well-known detrimental effects of cigarette smoke (CS), little is known about the complex gene expression dynamics in the early stages after exposure. This study aims to investigate early transcriptomic responses following CS exposure of airway epithelial cells in culture and compare these to those found in human CS exposure studies. Primary bronchial epithelial cells (PBEC) were differentiated at the air–liquid interface (ALI) and exposed to whole CS. Bulk RNA-sequencing was performed at 1 h, 4 h, and 24 h hereafter, followed by differential gene expression analysis. Results were additionally compared to data retrieved from human CS studies. ALI-PBEC gene expression in response to CS was most significantly changed at 4 h after exposure. Early transcriptomic changes (1 h, 4 h post CS exposure) were related to oxidative stress, xenobiotic metabolism, higher expression of immediate early genes and pro-inflammatory pathways (i.e., Nrf2, AP-1, AhR). At 24 h, ferroptosis-associated genes were significantly increased, whereas PRKN , involved in removing dysfunctional mitochondria, was downregulated. Importantly, the transcriptome dynamics of the current study mirrored in-vivo human studies of acute CS exposure, chronic smokers, and inversely mirrored smoking cessation. These findings show that early after CS exposure xenobiotic metabolism and pro-inflammatory pathways were activated, followed by activation of the ferroptosis-related cell death pathway. Moreover, significant overlap between these transcriptomic responses in the in-vitro model and human in-vivo studies was found, with an early response of ciliated cells. These results provide validation for the use of ALI-PBEC cultures to study the human lung epithelial response to inhaled toxicants.
An asset-backed decentralised finance instrument for food supply chains – A case study from the livestock export industry
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2023
Towards australian regional turnaround: Insights into sustainably accommodating post-pandemic urban growth in regional towns and cities
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 15-12-2020
DOI: 10.3390/SU122410492
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has made many urban policymakers, planners, and scholars, all around the globe, rethink conventional, neoliberal growth strategies of cities. The trend of rapid urbanization, particularly around capital cities, has been questioned, and alternative growth models and locations have been the subjects of countless discussions. This is particularly the case for the Australian context: The COVID-19 pandemic heightened the debates in urban circles on post-pandemic urban growth strategies and boosting the growth of towns and cities across regional Australia is a popular alternative strategy. While some scholars argue that regional Australia poses an invaluable opportunity for post-pandemic growth by ‘taking off the pressure from the capital cities’ others warn us about the risks of growing regional towns and cities without carefully designed national, regional, and local planning, design, and development strategies. Superimposing planning and development policies meant for metropolitan cities could simply result in transferring the ills of capital cities to regions and exacerbate unsustainable development and heightened socioeconomic inequalities. This opinion piece, by keeping both of these perspectives in mind, explores approaches to regional community and economic development of Australia’s towns and cities, along with identifying sustainable urban growth locations in the post-pandemic era. It also offers new insights that could help re-shape the policy debate on regional growth and development.
Strengthening consumer trust in beef supply chain traceability with a blockchain-based human-machine reconcile mechanism
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
From repositories to switchboards: Local governments as open data facilitators
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2020
Critical factors of digital AgTech adoption on Australian farms: from digital to data divide
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-04-2022
The role of residential suburbs in the knowledge economy: insights from a design charrette into nomadic and remote work practices
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-01-2021
#BlockSidewalk to Barcelona: Technological sovereignty and the social license to operate smart cities
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-06-2020
DOI: 10.1002/ASI.24387
Blockchain smart contracts for supply chain finance: Mapping the innovation potential in Australia-China beef supply chains
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2022
Assessment of the load-velocity profile in the free-weight prone bench pull exercise through different velocity variables and regression models
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 27-02-2019
Smoking induces shifts in cellular composition and transcriptome within the bronchial mucus barrier
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-11-2023
DOI: 10.1111/RESP.14401
Abstract: Smoking disturbs the bronchial-mucus-barrier. This study assesses the cellular composition and gene expression shifts of the bronchial-mucus-barrier with smoking to understand the mechanism of mucosal damage by cigarette smoke exposure. We explore whether single-cell-RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) based cellular deconvolution (CD) can predict cell-type composition in RNA-seq data. RNA-seq data of bronchial biopsies from three cohorts were analysed using CD. The cohorts included 56 participants with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [COPD] (38 smokers 18 ex-smokers), 77 participants without COPD (40 never-smokers 37 smokers) and 16 participants who stopped smoking for 1 year (11 COPD and 5 non-COPD-smokers). Differential gene expression was used to investigate gene expression shifts. The CD-derived goblet cell ratios were validated by correlating with staining-derived goblet cell ratios from the COPD cohort. Statistics were done in the R software (false discovery rate p-value < 0.05). Both CD methods indicate a shift in bronchial-mucus-barrier cell composition towards goblet cells in COPD and non-COPD-smokers compared to ex- and never-smokers. It shows that the effect was reversible within a year of smoking cessation. A reduction of ciliated and basal cells was observed with current smoking, which resolved following smoking cessation. The expression of mucin and sodium channel (ENaC) genes, but not chloride channel genes, were altered in COPD and current smokers compared to never smokers or ex-smokers. The goblet cell-derived staining scores correlate with CD-derived goblet cell ratios. Smoking alters bronchial-mucus-barrier cell composition, transcriptome and increases mucus production. This effect is partly reversible within a year of smoking cessation. CD methodology can predict goblet-cell percentages from RNA-seq.
DISTRIBUTION OF HOME-BASED WORK IN CITIES: IMPLICATIONS FOR PLANNING AND POLICY IN THE PANDEMIC ERA
Publisher: CICADIT, University of Bucharest
Date: 15-07-2022
DOI: 10.37043/JURA.2022.14.2.2
Abstract: The rapid growth of home-based work raises questions about its long-term impacts on neighbourhoods and cities. By removing the need to commute, home-based work has the potential to advance the New Urbanism aspirations of walkable neighbourhoods in an urban village format where people live, work and play. Nonetheless, the uneven distribution of this emerging work practice, strongly associated with the socio-economic status of neighbourhoods, is exacerbating the risk of increased urban inequalities. This paper presents pre- and post-COVID data for the City of Gold Coast, Australia, and it discusses the urban distribution of home-based work by analysing the home-based workers’ locational preferences, their daily movement patterns, the preferred built environment outcomes, and the urban design features. The findings suggest that certain social and economic interactions tend to increase with the growth of remote work. These interactions, magnified by the COVID pandemic, offer opportunities to advance the New Urbanism aspirations of cohesive, walkable communities and neighbourhoods.
Revisiting Trust in Supply Chains: How Does Blockchain Redefine Trust?
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 07-09-2023
Digital Participation through Social Living Labs: Valuing Local Knowledge, Enhancing Engagement
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2018
The museum in the smart city: the role of cultural institutions in co-creating urban imaginaries
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-03-2020
Mapping new work practices in the smart city
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Date: 2020
Multiple Targets for the Management of Alzheimer’s Disease
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Date: 18-10-2016
DOI: 10.2174/1871527315666161003165855
Abstract: AD is a progressive and irreversible neurodegenerative disease and the most common cause of dementia in the elderly population. Βeta- amyloid cascade formation along with several cytoskeleton abnormalities succeeding to the hyperphosphorylation of microtubule-associated tau protein in neurons leads to the elicitation of several neurotoxic incidents. As an outcome of these phenomena, steady growth of dementia in aged population is becoming ubiquitous in both developed and developing countries. Thus, the key aspiration is to endow with stable daily life functionality to the person suffering from dementia and to cut down or slower the symptoms of disease leading to disruptive behavior. In sight of this, the proteins amyloid-beta, BACE-1, RAGE and AChE are being aimed for the treatment of AD successfully. Currently, there are several medicines for the treatment of AD under survey like Galangin, Cymserine, Tolserine, Bisnorcymserine and Huperzine A. The article emphasizes clinical and neurobiological aspects of AD. The purpose of this review article is to provide a brief introduction of AD along with the related concept of beta-secretase, beta amyloid and neurotransmitter in the progression of disease. In the present review, we summarize the available evidence on the new therapeutic approaches that target amyloid and neurotransmitter in the AD.
Participatory urban informatics: Towards citizen-ability
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 03-04-2018
DOI: 10.1108/SASBE-10-2017-0051
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to trace how the relationship between city governments and citizens has developed over time with the introduction of urban informatics and smart city technology. The argument presented in the paper is backed up by a critical review approach based on a transdisciplinary assessment of social, spatial and technical research domains. Smart cities using urban informatics can be categorised into four classes of maturity or development phases depending on the qualities of their relationship with their citizenry. The paper discusses the evolution of this maturity scale from people as residents, consumers, participants, to co-creators. The paper’s contribution has practical implications for cities wanting to take advantage of urban informatics and smart city technology. First, recognising that technology is a means to an end requires cities to avoid technocratic solutions and employ participatory methodologies of urban informatics. Second, the most challenging part of unpacking city complexities is not about urban data but about a cultural shift in policy and governance style towards collaborative citymaking. The paper suggests reframing the design notion of usability towards “citizen- ability ”.
Ergonomics in apiculture: A case study based on inspecting movable frame hives for healthy bee activities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
Non-human Personas. Including Nature in the Participatory Design of Smart Cities
Publisher: Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development
Date: 20-12-2021
Abstract: For the past decades humans have been placed at the centre of designing information and communication technologies (ICT), leading to the rise in prominence of human-centred design. The field of smart cities has equally adopted notions of citizen participation as a way to ensure that technological solutions improve people’s livelihoods. However, these kinds of processes treat the urban environment as separate from nature, promoting human comfort and convenience over planetary health and wellbeing. Motivated by these growing concerns that highlight the urgency to reconsider how we define and practice participation in smart cities and in human-centred ICT solutions more broadly, this article assesses how the personas method can be adapted to include more-than-human perspectives in the design process. Based on a case study, which involved designing smart urban furniture for human and non-human use, we introduce a framework for developing and employing non-human personas. As a key element of the framework, we describe a middle-out approach for forming a coalition that can speak on behalf of the non-human species that are impacted by design decisions. We demonstrate how the framework can be used through its retrospective application on two research-led smart city projects. The article concludes with a discussion of key principles for creating and using non-human personas in design projects.
Nanoparticles as a Carrier System for Drug Delivery Across Blood Brain Barrier
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Date: 21-03-2017
More-than-human media architecture
Publisher: ACM
Date: 13-11-2018
Avoiding ecocidal smart cities
Publisher: ACM
Date: 20-08-2018
Reparative futures of smart urban governance
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2023
A more-than-human perspective on understanding the performance of the built environment
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-01-2020
The city as perpetual beta: Fostering systemic urban acupuncture
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 06-12-2019
Research beyond smart cities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2019
The city as perpetual beta: Fostering systemic urban acupuncture
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2019
Garbage in garbage out: The precarious link between IoT and blockchain in food supply chains
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2022
Participation, Co-Creation, and Public Space
Publisher: City Space Architecture
Date: 31-12-2017
DOI: 10.5204/JPS.V2I4.139
Abstract: A central notion in urban design, urban interaction design, and placemaking is the user of public space, the occupant, resident, citizen, bystander, passer-by, explorer, or flâneur. When the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) first emerged, the disciplines that represented the “human” aspects of HCI included behavioural psychology, cognitive science and human factors engineering. This situatedness begs the question whether the “user” requires different contextualisations beyond the immediate and traditional HCI concerns of the technical interface, that is, beyond usability. br / This article aims to illustrate the need for placemakers and urban interaction designers to be transdisciplinary and agile in order to navigate different levels of granularity. This article seeks to practice granular agile thinking by introducing five possible ways to think about the “urban user” and the implications that follow: the user as city resident the user as consumer of city services the user as participant in the city’s community consultations the user as co-creator in a collaborative approach to citymaking, and finally the user re-thought as part of a much larger and more complex ecosystem of more-than-human worlds and of cohabitation – a process that decentres the human in the design of collaborative cities.
Designing smart for sustainable communities: Reflecting on the role of HCI for addressing the sustainable development goals
Publisher: ACM
Date: 02-12-2019
Radical Placemaking: Utilizing Low-Tech AR/VR to engage in Communal Placemaking during a Pandemic
Publisher: Association for Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development
Date: 10-06-2021
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has made the struggles of the excluded louder and has also left them socially isolated. The article documents the implementation of one instance of Radical Placemaking, an “intangible”, community-driven and participatory placemaking process, in Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV), Brisbane, Australia to tackle social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. KGUV community members were engaged in storytelling and interactive fiction online workshops to create experiential, place-based and mobile low-tech AR digital artefacts. The article expands on the methodology which involved a series of online workshops to design low-tech AR digital artefacts using digital collaboration tools (Google Classroom, Slack, Zoom) and VR environments (Mozilla Hubs). The study’s findings confirm the role of accessible AR/VR technology in enabling marginalised communities to create connectedness and community by co-creating their own authentic and erse urban imaginaries of place and cities.
Mapping a connected learning ecology to foster digital participation in regional communities
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2018
Beyond engagement theatre: challenging institutional constraints of participatory planning practice
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2021
Mapping Brisbane’s Casual Creative Corridor: Land use and policy implications of a new genre in urban creative ecosystems
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2020
Pandemic Tech Utopias and Capitalist Surveillance Cultures: The Case of Privacy-Preserving Contact-Tracing Apps
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.3717370
How does serious m-game technology encourage low-income households to perform socially-responsible behaviors?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-03-2017
DOI: 10.1002/MAR.20996
TransHuman Saunter: Multispecies Storytelling in Precarious Times
Publisher: MIT Press
Date: 2023
DOI: 10.1162/LEON_A_02243
Abstract: TransHuman Saunter is a geolocative artwork that documents the entanglements of four women artists of color with the multispecies ecosystem of the Indian banyan tree in Brisbane City Botanic Gardens, Australia. The work positions itself during a time when the impacts of capitalism and colonialism are evident in the planetary crisis of climate change and species loss in addition to a pandemic that exacerbates ethno-racial and gender inequity. This artists’ article covers the rationale of the work and its methodology and describes the in idual artworks. It serves as an act of pluralistic storytelling of unheard voices situated in place.
Designing to the pattern: A storytelling prototype for food growers
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 18-10-2018
DOI: 10.3390/MTI2040073
Abstract: We present the design and pilot study of QuickTales, a mobile storytelling platform through which urban gardeners can share gardening experiences. QuickTales was built as a response to design patterns, drawing on previous studies we conducted with residential gardeners and different gardening communities in a large Australian city. Given the ersity of needs and wants of urban gardeners, the intent for QuickTales was for it to serve as a multi-purpose tool for different in iduals and groups across the local urban agriculture ecology. The evaluation provides initial insights into the use of storytelling in this context. We reflect on the use of design patterns to as they were used to inform the design of QuickTales, and propose opportunities for further design pattern development.
Plant-human entanglements in buildings
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 30-10-2023
DoGood: Examining gamification, civic engagement, and collective intelligence
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-03-2018
Designing Gamified Applications that Make Safe Driving More Engaging
Publisher: ACM
Date: 02-05-2017
More-than-human participation
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Date: 23-04-2019
DOI: 10.1145/3319075
Abstract: In this forum we highlight innovative thought, design, and research in the area of interaction design and sustainability, illustrating the ersity of approaches across HCI communities. --- Roy Bendor, Editor
Working from the other office: Trialling coworking spaces for public servants
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-04-2018
Brisbane 2032: The promise of the first climate-positive Olympics for regenerative cities
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
Age Effects on Women’s and Men’s Dyadic and Solitary Sexual Desire
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-08-2022
DOI: 10.1007/S10508-022-02375-8
Abstract: While most studies on sexuality in later life report that sexual desire declines with age, little is known about the exact nature of age effects on sexual desire. Using self-reported dyadic sexual desire relating to a partner, dyadic sexual desire relating to an attractive person, and solitary sexual desire from a large ( N 8000) and age erse (14.6–80.2 years) online s le, the current study had three goals: First, we investigated relationships between men and women’s sexual desire and age. Second, we examined whether in idual differences such as gender/sex, sexual orientation, self-rated masculinity, relationship status, self-rated attractiveness, and self-rated health predict sexual desire. Third, we examined how these associations differed across sexual desire facets. On average, the associations between age and both men and women’s sexual desire followed nonlinear trends and differed between genders/sexes and types of sexual desire. Average levels of all types of sexual desire were generally higher in men. Dyadic sexual desire related positively to self-rated masculinity and having a romantic partner and solitary desire was higher in people with same-sex attraction. We discuss the results in the context of the evolutionary hypothesis that predict an increase of sexual desire and female reproductive effort prior to declining fertility. Our findings both support and challenge beliefs about gender/sex specificity of age effects on sexual desire and highlight the importance of differentiating between desire types.
What Are the Effects of Short Video Storytelling in Delivering Blockchain-Credentialed Australian Beef Products to China?
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 11-10-2021
Abstract: Short videos have become the most-liked medium for Chinese consumers to learn about a brand’s products or services. This paper assesses how short video storytelling shapes Chinese consumers’ perceptions towards blockchain-credentialed Australian beef and their willingness to pay (WTP). A controlled experiment with a one-minute short video was implemented in an online survey. Respondents in the treatment group watched the video before filling out the survey, whereas respondents in the control group did not. The paper analyses and compares the empirical results from local (n = 76) and foreign (n = 27) consumers. Results illustrate that the short video, as part of our food communications, positively shapes consumer perception towards meat quality, labelling and traceability trust of Australian beef but has only slight or even negative effects on WTP. This could be due to the short video offering consumers a sense of supply chain visibility but not delivering the right messages to meet their expectation of blockchain credentials. Furthermore, short video storytelling effects vary among consumers with different socio-economic characteristics. Our results posit that short video storytelling can be a useful tool in communicating blockchain-credentialed food products but require the design of a tailor-made storytelling experience for erse consumers.
Ergonomics in apiculture: A case study based on inspecting movable frame hives for healthy bee activities
Publisher: Ryerson University Library and Archives
Date: 19-07-2023
DOI: 10.32920/23709957.V1
Abstract: The agricultural sector suffers from high risk of injury and damage to human health. There is considerable research not only identifying these risks but also finding ways to mitigate them. Beekeeping or apiculture, recognised as part of this sector, has many risk factors such as heavy lifting, high degree of manual materials handling, twisting, and awkward positioning common to all agriculture areas. It also has some unique risks such as those resulting from bee stings and smokers. However, there is much less attention focused on the health and safety of apiculture to the human beekeepers, and much more attention focused on bee health and safety. An ergonomics case study on beekeeping inspection tasks involving three independent, local beekeepers showed that many tasks involve awkward positions of the body, arms and hands, excessive lifting well beyond recommended weight limits, eye strain, and chemical and sting exposure. In addition, beekeepers are more interested in bee and hive health rather than reducing human-centred risk factors such as those due to excessive lifting. Standard ergonomics interventions such as a magnifier inspection and lift assist systems as well as interventions unique to beekeeping such as a smokeless method of calming bees are recommended. The beekeeping industry seems to have been forgotten in the modernisation of technology and agricultural practices. This paper offers some initial insights into possible points for research, development and improvements.
RURAL DATA DIVIDES: CRITICAL FACTORS OF DIGITAL AGTECH ADOPTION ON AUSTRALIAN FARMS
Publisher: University of Illinois Libraries
Date: 15-09-2021
DOI: 10.5210/SPIR.V2021I0.12206
Abstract: This paper details a qualitative investigation of human factors relating to adoption of digital agricultural technologies on Australian farms. We employed an ‘ecosystems’ approach to undertake a case study of a cotton farm’s transition to digital farming. Interviews and participant observation were conducted across the farm’s supply chain to understand how the experiences, perceptions, and activities of different stakeholders constituted a community-level orientation to digital agriculture, which enabled and constrained on-farm adoption. Technology providers installed a variety of data-generating technologies – remote sensors, automation, satellite crop imagery, WiFi/4G connectivity, and a customised data dashboard on the farm. However, the farmers lacked digital and data literacy skills to access, manage and use data effectively and independently. Specialist expertise for data translation was required, and support and resourcing for the farmers to acquire data capabilities was limited. This ‘data ide’ between the generation and application of farm data was complicated by broader issues raised by participants about data ownership, portability, privacy, trust, liability, and sovereignty, which have been observed internationally. The paper raises questions about the level of expertise farmers should be expected to attain in the transition to digital farming, who in the ecosystem is best placed to fill this ‘data ide’, and what interventions are necessary to address significant barriers to adoption in rural communities. It also highlights a tension between farmers’ $2 as decision-makers on their own properties and their $2 on digital technologies – and the ecosystems that support uptake of digital AgTech – to inform on-farm decisions.
Urban Revitalisation Between Artisanal Craft and Green Manufacturing: The Case of Brisbane’s Northgate Industrial Precinct
Publisher: Cogitatio
Date: 03-10-2023
(Re)imagining the ibis: Multispecies future(s), smart urban governance, and the digital environmental humanities
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 26-07-2023
The role of Fab Labs and Living Labs for economic development of regional Australia
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 26-11-2020
Towards Post-Anthropocentric Cities: Reconceptualizing Smart Cities to Evade Urban Ecocide
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-10-2019
Digital geographies and the location economy: Towards a transdisciplinary research agenda
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 02-05-2023
Cigarette smoke exposure alters phosphodiesterases in human structural lung cells
Publisher: American Physiological Society
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.1152/AJPLUNG.00319.2019
Abstract: Cigarette smoke (CS), a highly complex mixture containing more than 4,000 compounds, causes aberrant cell responses leading to tissue damage around the airways and alveoli, which underlies various lung diseases. Phosphodiesterases (PDEs) are a family of enzymes that hydrolyze cyclic nucleotides. PDE inhibition induces bronchodilation, reduces the activation and recruitment of inflammatory cells, and the release of various cytokines. Currently, the selective PDE4 inhibitor roflumilast is an approved add-on treatment for patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with chronic bronchitis and a history of frequent exacerbations. Additional selective PDE inhibitors are being tested in preclinical and clinical studies. However, the effect of chronic CS exposure on the expression of PDEs is unknown. Using mRNA isolated from nasal and bronchial brushes and lung tissues of never smokers and current smokers, we compared the gene expression of 25 PDE coding genes. Additionally, the expression and distribution of PDE3A and PDE4D in human lung tissues was examined. This study reveals that chronic CS exposure modulates the expression of various PDE members. Thus, CS exposure may change the levels of intracellular cyclic nucleotides and thereby impact the efficiency of PDE-targeted therapies.
Correction: Urban AI: understanding the emerging role of artificial intelligence in smart cities
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-07-2023
Urban AI: understanding the emerging role of artificial intelligence in smart cities
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-09-2023
Informed digital learning through social living labs as participatory methodology
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 10-10-2017
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore social living labs as a participatory methodology and context for fostering digital literacy and community well-being. This approach is examined through a case study of Food Rescue Townsville, a voluntary community organisation in North Queensland, Australia. Using qualitative case study methodology, the research investigated volunteers’ experience of a social living lab where they selected, installed and used open source Food Rescue Robot software. The social living lab enhanced volunteers’ digital literacy and the organisation’s efficiency. The participatory nature and transformative intentions of social living labs are similar to action research as both promote social change through collaboration. The case study intentionally focuses on one community organisation to gain in-depth insights of a real-life social living lab. The paper models an innovative approach that contributes to community learning and well-being. It presents a social living labs framework for digital literacy development that is underpinned by participatory action research cycle and integrates informed learning principles. Social living labs provide a learning context and approach that extends beyond digital skills instruction to a holistic process of using information to learn. They enable in iduals to participate as digital citizens in the creation, curation and use of digital information. Informed digital learning through social living labs addresses the digital ide by fostering digital participation, volunteering and community engagement. The paper is of interest to researchers, information literacy educators and community groups. Theoretical insights and participatory practices of the Food Rescue Townsville case, and the proposed social living labs framework are transferable to other communities.
BeefLegends: Connecting the Dots between Community, Culture and Commerce
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.5204/REP.EPRINTS.213769
Abstract: This report highlights the role of the 3Cs – Community, Culture, Commerce, a project design methodology for customising social, business, research project partnerships. 3C is a leader in the intermediation and brokerage of mutually beneficial design. From 2018 – 2021, 3C was deployed as part of a collaborative research study between BeefLedger Ltd and QUT, co-funded by the Food Agility CRC. 3C created the community engagement component of that initiative, entitled Beeflegends it is presented here as a case study. Here we describe how the 3C process contributes to social and digital inclusion in regional communities and can create new modes of engagement between those communities and regional industry.
Chatty Bench Project: Radical Media Architecture during COVID-19 Pandemic
Publisher: ACM
Date: 28-06-2021
Lifestyle cities, remote work and implications for urban planning
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2022
Building a Research Group: Urban Informatics 2006 to now
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 25-02-2021
From Automation to Autonomy: Technological Sovereignty for Better Data Care in Smart Cities
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2021
Intermediation in design as a practice of institutioning and commoning
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2022
Implications of Working from Home for the Design of Healthy Work Environments in the Post-Pandemic City
Publisher: Alexandrine Press
Date: 09-2023
Incidence, Associated Factors, and Outcome of Delirium among Patients Admitted to ICUs in Oman
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 04-10-2022
DOI: 10.1155/2022/4692483
Abstract: Background. The incidence of delirium is high up to 46.3% among patients admitted to ICU. Delirium is linked to negative patient outcomes like increased duration of mechanical ventilation use, prolonged ICU stay, increased mortality rate, and healthcare costs. Despite the importance of delirium and its consequences that are significant, there is a scarcity of studies which explored delirium in Oman. Objectives. This study was conducted to assess the incidence of delirium, the association between the selected predisposing factors and precipitating factors with delirium, determine the predicators of delirium, and evaluate its impacts on ICU mortality and ICU length of stay among ICU patients in Oman. Methods. A multicenter prospective observational design was used. A total of 153 patients were assessed two-times a day by bedside ICU nurses through the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC). Results. The results revealed that the delirium incidence was 26.1%. Regression analysis showed that sepsis, metabolic acidosis, nasogastric tube use, and APACHE II score were independent predictors for delirium among ICU patients in Oman and delirium had significant impacts on ICU length of stay and mortality rate. Conclusion. Delirium is common among ICU patients and it is associated with negative consequences. Multidisciplinary prevention strategies should be implemented to identify and treat the modifiable risk factors.
From premise to practice of social consensus: How to agree on common knowledge in blockchain-enabled supply chains
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Social living labs for informed learning
Publisher: CILIP Information Literacy Group
Date: 03-12-2019
DOI: 10.11645/13.2.2641
Abstract: This paper proposes social living labs for informed learning as an innovative approach to interprofessional and community education. It presents a new conceptual model and practice framework suited to rapidly changing, information-intensive work and social environments. The proposed approach is theoretically informed and evidence based. It integrates concepts from three complementary fields: Informed learning as information literacy pedagogy that enables using information critically and creatively to learn (information science) interprofessional education as a professional learning model with a cross-disciplinary and community reach (health sciences/medicine) and social living labs as informal learning context and problem-solving process (community development). After reviewing relevant literature, the paper introduces the concepts and research that underpin social living labs for informed learning. Then it presents a new conceptual model and a practice framework to guide their design and implementation. To illustrate the practical application of this approach, a hypothetical scenario envisages health practitioners, librarians and community members collaborating in a social living lab to address health and social challenges related to child obesity. The paper concludes by discussing anticipated benefits and limitations of the approach and possible wider application. As a contribution to theory, the paper uncovers a previously unrecognised synergy between the principles of informed learning, social living labs and interprofessional education. Supporting information literacy research and practice, the paper identifies a significant role for informed learning in community and professional education, and a novel strategy for health information literacy development. The paper is of interest to educators, researchers, and practitioners across information literacy, community development, healthcare, and other professional fields.
Genetic profiling for disease stratification in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 05-2019
Mixhaus: Dissolving boundaries with a community maker space
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2018
Designing Smart for Sustainable and Resilient Communities: The Role of Participatory Design in Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Publisher: ACM
Date: 19-08-2022
Gamification and serious games within the domain of domestic energy consumption: A systematic review
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2017
From Repositories to Switchboards: Local Governments as Open Data Facilitators
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 27-09-2019
Social Living Labs for Digital Participation and Connected Learning
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2018
BeefLedger blockchain-credentialed beef exports to China: Early consumer insights
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 05-2020
DOI: 10.5204/REP.EPRINTS.200267
Abstract: The BeefLedger Export Smart Contracts project is a collaborative research study between BeefLedger Ltd and QUT co-funded by the Food Agility CRC. This project exists to deliver economic value to those involved in the production, export and consumption of Australian beef to China through: (1) reduced information asymmetry (2) streamlined compliance processes, and (3) developing and accessing new data-driven value drivers, through the deployment of decentralised ledger technologies and associated governance systems. This report presents early insights from a survey deployed to Chinese consumers in Nov/Dec 2019 exploring attitudes and preferences about blockchain-credentialed beef exports to China. Our results show that most local and foreign consumers were willing to pay more than the reference price for a BeefLedger branded Australian cut and packed Sirloin steak at the same weight. Although considered superior over Chinese processed Australian beef products, the Chinese market were sceptical that the beef they buy was really from Australia, expressing low trust in Australian label and traceability information. Despite lower trust, most survey respondents were willing to pay more for traceability supported Australian beef, potentially because including this information provided an additional sense of safety. Therefore, traceability information should be provided to consumers, as it can add a competitive advantage over products without traceability.
The Praxis of Radical Placemaking
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 02-08-2023
DOI: 10.3389/FCOMP.2023.1193538
Abstract: Emerging from the social disparities of the COVID-19 pandemic and contestations over marginal bodies in space during the global Black Lives Matter movement, Radical Placemaking is proposed as a digital placemaking design practice and investigated as part of a 3-year design study. This practice involves marginalized bodies highlighting social issues through the ephemerality and spectacularity of digital technologies in public space in [smart] cities. Radical Placemaking methodology, as demonstrated through three design interventions, engages participatory action research, slow design, and open pedagogies for marginal bodies to create place-based digital artifacts. Through the making and experience of the artifacts, Radical Placemaking advances and simulates a virtual manifestation of the marginal beings' bodies and knowledge in public spaces, made possible through emerging technologies. Through nine key strategies, the paper offers a conceptual framework that imbibes a relational way of co-designing within the triad of people-place-technology.
Screening and elucidation of selected natural compounds for anti-Alzheimer’s potential targeting BACE-1 enzyme: A case computational study
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Date: 10-11-2017
Urban parks, value uplift and green gentrification: an application of the Spatial Hedonic Model in the city of Brisbane
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
Interaction of Glucagon G-Protein Coupled Receptor with Known Natural Antidiabetic Compounds: MultiscoringIn SilicoApproach
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 2015
DOI: 10.1155/2015/497253
Abstract: Glucagon receptor (GCGR) is a secretin-like (class B) family of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) in humans that plays an important role in elevating the glucose concentration in blood and has thus become one of the promising therapeutic targets for treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. GCGR based inhibitors for the treatment of type 2 diabetes are either glucagon neutralizers or small molecular antagonists. Management of diabetes without any side effects is still a challenge to the medical system, and the search for a new and effective natural GCGR antagonist is an important area for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. In the present study, a number of natural compounds containing antidiabetic properties were selected from the literature and their binding potential against GCGR was determined using molecular docking and other in silico approaches. Among all selected natural compounds, curcumin was found to be the most effective compound against GCGR followed by amorfrutin 1 and 4-hydroxyderricin. These compounds were rescored to confirm the accuracy of binding using another scoring function ( x -score). The final conclusions were drawn based on the results obtained from the GOLD and x -score. Further experiments were conducted to identify the atomic level interactions of selected compounds with GCGR.
The more-than-human turn in human-plant interaction design: From utilitarian object to living co-inhabitant
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2024
DIY & More-than-Human Media Architecture, Allegories, Entanglements & Speculative Practice
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 25-10-2021
DOI: 10.5204/BOOK.EPRINTS.214092
Abstract: In recent years, research in the fields of Media Architecture and urban informatics have made calls to move beyond the human-centred city and towards a “more equitable multispecies city” (Van Dooren & Rose, 2012). Working towards future more-than-human cities, the design of hybrid digital-physical urban spaces - with an ethos of inclusivity and ersity - will require methods, tools, approaches, platforms, etc. to engage different communities, environments, and all kinds of nonhuman entities and creatures. This workshop posed the following question: While considering different characteristics (such as gender, race, class, abilities, creed, digital skills, habitat, bio-systems), how can citizens engage in creating DIY and More-than-Human Media Architecture to actively shape their spaces and foster imaginaries of more-than-human urban futurity, all while being kinder towards our stressed and fragile urban ecology? As a first step, DIY Media Architecture proposes that communities of experts support non-experts to create and design Media Architecture as active instigators of change in their own right. A possible strategy may lie in mobilizing allegories, entanglements, multispecies world-making, speculative prototyping, i.e. techniques to frame and engage more-than-human urban futures. This is positioned as empowering the less heard as taking charge of their digital-physical canvases throughout urban spaces and, as a next step, staking their and all creatures’ rights to the city. The workshop was conducted online from 24th-29th June 2021. The workshop provided the platform for discussions on alternative materials, platforms, strategies and tools for enabling DIY processes of the less heard in anthropocentric engagement. The workshop, further, encouraged participants to bring prototypes, demos, videos and ex les to broaden the conversation on DIY and More-than-Human Media Architecture. This was collated towards two outcomes 1) conceptual prototypes and 2) participants were invited to co-author a publication. This is in keeping with MAB2020’s Themes & Issues of “Citizen’s Digital Rights”, “Playful and Artistic Civic Engagement” and “More-Than-Human Cities”.
Government financial assistance as catalyst for private financing
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
From legislation to obligation: Re-thinking smart urban governance for multispecies justice
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2023
Co-Designing Planning Support Systems in Urban Science: The Questions They Answer and the Questions They Raise
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-10-2021
More-than-human smart urban governance: A research agenda
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2023
A case study of human factors of digital AgTech adoption: Condamine Plains, Darling Downs
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date: 21-12-2021
DOI: 10.5204/REP.EPRINTS.227177
Abstract: As global agricultural production methods and supply chains have become more digitised, farmers around the world are adopting digital AgTech such as drones, Internet of Things (IoT), remote sensors, blockchain, and satellite imagery to inform their on-farm decision-making. While early adopters and technology advocates globally are spruiking and realising the benefits of digital AgTech, many Australian farmers are reluctant or unable to participate fully in the digital economy. This is an important issue, as the Australian Government has said that digital farming is essential to meeting its target of agriculture being a $100billion industry by 2030. Most studies of AgTech adoption focus on in idual-level barriers, yielding well-documented issues such as access to digital connectivity, availability of AgTech suppliers, non-use of ICTs, and cost-benefit for farmers. In contrast, our project took an ‘ecosystems’ approach to study cotton farmers in the Darling Downs region in Queensland, Australia who are installing water sensors, satellite imagery, and IoT plant probes to generate data to be aggregated on a dashboard to inform decision-making. We asked our farmers to map their local ecosystem, and then set up interviewing different stakeholders (such technology providers, agronomists, and suppliers) to understand how community-level orientations to digital agriculture enabled and constrained on-farm adoption. We identified human factors of digital AgTech adoption at the macro, regional and farm levels, with a pronounced ‘data ide’ between farm and community level stakeholders within the ecosystem. This ‘data ide’ is characterised by a capability gap between the provision of the devices and software that generate data by technology companies, and the ability of farmers to manage, implement, use, and maintain them effectively and independently. In the Condamine Plains project, farmers were willing and determined to learn new, advanced digital and data literacy skills. Other farmers in different circumstances may not see value in such an undertaking or have the necessary support to take full advantage of the technologies once they are implemented. Moreover, there did not seem to be a willingness or capacity in the rest of the ecosystem to fill this gap. The work raises questions about the type and level of new, digital expertise farmers need to attain in the transition to digital farming, and what interventions are necessary to address the significant barriers to adoption and effective use that remain in rural communities. By holistically considering how macro- and micro-level factors may be combined with community-level influences, this study provides a more complete and holistic account of the contextualised factors that drive or undermine digital AgTech adoption on farms in rural communities. This report provides insights and evidence to inform strategies for rural ecosystems to transition farms to meet the requirements and opportunities of Agriculture 4.0 in Australia and abroad.
Lessons from Urban Guerrilla Placemaking for Smart City Commons
Publisher: ACM
Date: 26-06-2017
Reliability and validity of different methods of estimating the one-repetition maximum during the free-weight prone bench pull exercise
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-06-2019
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2019.1626071
Abstract: This study examined the reliability and validity of three methods of estimating the one-repetition maximum (1RM) during the free-weight prone bench pull exercise. Twenty-six men (22 rowers and four weightlifters) performed an incremental loading test until reaching their 1RM, followed by a set of repetitions-to-failure. Eighteen participants were re-tested to conduct the reliability analysis. The 1RM was estimated through the lifts-to-failure equations proposed by Lombardi and O'Connor, general load-velocity (L-V) relationships proposed by Sánchez-Medina and Loturco and the in idual L-V relationships modelled using four (multiple-point method) or only two loads (two-point method). The direct method provided the highest reliability (coefficient of variation [CV] = 2.45% and intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC] = 0.97), followed by the Lombardi's equation (CV = 3.44% and ICC = 0.94), and no meaningful differences were observed between the remaining methods (CV range = 4.95-6.89% and ICC range = 0.81-0.91). The lifts-to-failure equations overestimated the 1RM (3.43-4.08%), the general L-V relationship proposed by Sánchez-Medina underestimated the 1RM (-3.77%), and no significant differences were observed for the remaining prediction methods (-0.40-0.86%). The in idual L-V relationship could be recommended as the most accurate method for predicting the 1RM during the free-weight prone bench pull exercise.
Visualisation Design as Language Transformations - From Conceptual Models to Graphics Grammars
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 07-2019
Geographies of locative apps
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-10-2022
Spatial Data in Urban Informatics: Contentions of the Software-Sorted City
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-05-2022
Between surveillance and technological solutionism: A critique of privacy-preserving apps for COVID-19 contact-tracing
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-07-2022
DOI: 10.1177/14614448221109800
Abstract: In this article, we examine the rise of contact-tracing apps during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic as a new form of technological solutionism – a technological or techno-social fix that can be deployed at national scale in response to an urgent, supranational problem. A dystopian view saw the rapid development and proliferation of COVID-19 contact-tracing apps as a vanguard technology for surveillance. Expediently deployed as a technological fix to the pandemic, contact-tracing was seen to threaten to transform a state of emergency into a state of exception, under which accepted or constitutional laws and norms might be suspended. Here, we extend early critiques of the contact-tracing app as a ‘technofix’ to argue the growing intervention of global technology corporations in digital governance and affairs of national sovereignty throughout the COVID-19 pandemic represents a new frontier of state–industrial surveillance that exploits people’s pre-investment in and dependence on technology corporations. We exemplify this with the ‘technofix’ of the Google–Apple Exposure Notification (GAEN) framework and critically examine the notion of a decentralised and privacy-preserving Bluetooth-based contact-tracing framework proposed by global technology corporations that may threaten state sovereignty when determining public health responses to current or future crises.
User Science and Engineering
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2018
Today's internet for tomorrow's cities: On algorithmic culture and urban imaginaries
Publisher: No publisher found
Date: 2018
Impact of potassium cations on the light chemical stabilization of construction and demolition wastes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
More-than-human urban futures
Publisher: ACM
Date: 20-08-2018
The role of passenger-centric innovation in the future of public transport
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2016
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