OpenLab events showcase some of the latest research and technology related to social innovation and create interactive dialogue.
In this OpenLab, join Dr. Brad Crammond and Dr. Alexia Maddox as they explore society's future relationship with the digital world through a technology demonstration and an interactive workshop. Following the session, attendees will have the opportunity connect with other participants through an informal networking session.
Speaker details:
Dr. Brad Crammond, Lead - Research & Insights, Health Transformation Lab
Dr. Brad Crammond is a public health statistician and health tech guru. He spends his time finding ways to use technology to improve health and aged care – focusing on how it can support care workers rather than replace them.
Brad will showcase the technology within the digitally-rich RMIT-Cisco Sandbox to demonstrate the potential that technology has in tackling common societal problems in care provision and beyond.
The demonstrations will utilise a range of technologies to detect falls, hazards, and the automatic logging of face-to-face care hours. These demonstrations have been custom-developed on site by the Health Transformation Lab’s team, some of which appeared on Channel 9 news as part of the Transforming Aged Care Launch event.
Dr. Alexia Maddox, Research Fellow, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub
Dr. Alexia Maddox is the lead author of the Digital Infrastructures report for the Digital CBD research program.Her background is as a sociologist of technology, and specialises in researching digital frontiers and socio-technical (social) change. She is interested in how her expertise in community studies can be extended through new socio-technical domains where people are experimenting in alternative futures.
Alexia will deliver an experiential workshop based social and digital themes that will help participants understand what matters to us, and prompt thinking as to what the future of the CBD could and should be. Alexia will draw from some of the preliminary findings of the Digital CBD survey to provide provocations and an evidence basis for workshop participants.
The Digital CBD survey is part of the Digital CBD project, a collaboration between RMIT’s Blockchain Innovation Hub, Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, and the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. The survey, which was designed to establish a baseline for city-wide attitudes and perceptions about the city’s central business district has recently been profiled on Channel 9 news . The first findings of the survey have been shared in the Digital Infrastructures report that outlines future oriented thinking around the city as a space through which we work, innovate and play.