Conference Presentations by Ann Borda
Electronic Workshops in Computing, 2017
The imaging of cultural heritage sites and artefacts is now a highly technical process with many ... more The imaging of cultural heritage sites and artefacts is now a highly technical process with many tools and methodological approaches available to archaeologists, architects, museum curators and artefact conservators. Imaging studies at the Australian Institute of Archaeology (AIA) have been directed principally to the recording of the artefacts within the collection. Several imaging tools have been used, including optical microscopy, pseudo 3D photography using a translation rig, flatbed scanning and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI). RTI is an important tool for the ongoing Cuneiform in Australian and New Zealand collections (CANZ) project, one output of which will be a web-site from which researchers will be able to load the interactive RTI files that can be viewed using Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI) algorithmic rendering tools. Where publication of the AIA artefacts through journal articles and monographs is to be undertaken, other imaging techniques are being investigated to capture or enhance detail in a single image. In this work, we compare the outputs of RTI and ImageJ for interactive imaging and for singleimage publishing. This paper presents the results of applying ImageJ processing tools to images taken using the RTI methodology. Two types of artefact were studied in this work: (i) a clay tablet with significant relief in the incised cuneiform text and with convex surfaces and (ii) a papyrus fragment with ink script and a relatively flat surface texture. Both artefacts were imaged using the RTI illuminating dome methodology and the reflectance functions developed for algorithmic rendering. Image data for both artefacts were also processed using ImageJ enhancement tools, specifically Z-Project. The resultant images are compared with those from RTI algorithmic rendering.
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2019
This commentary explores how established citizen science models can inform and support meaningful... more This commentary explores how established citizen science models can inform and support meaningful engagement of the public in health research in Australia. In particular, with the growth in participatory health research approaches and increasing consumer participation in contributing to this research through digital technologies, there are gaps in our understanding of best practice in health and biomedical citizen science research to address these paradigm shifts. Notable gaps are how we might more clearly define the parameters of such research and which citizen science models might best support digitally-enabled participation falling within these. Further work in this area is expected to lead to how established citizen science methods may help improve the quality of and the translation of public engagement in health research.
Big Data & Society, 2021
Engaging citizens with digital technology to co-create data, information and knowledge has widely... more Engaging citizens with digital technology to co-create data, information and knowledge has widely become an important strategy for informing the policy response to COVID-19 and the ‘infodemic’ of misinformation in cyberspace. This move towards digital citizen participation aligns well with the United Nations’ agenda to encourage the use of digital tools to enable data-driven, direct democracy. From data capture to information generation, and knowledge co-creation, every stage of the data lifecycle bears important considerations to inform policy and practice. Drawing on evidence of participatory policy and practice during COVID-19, we outline a framework for citizen ‘e-participation’ in knowledge co-creation across every stage of the policy cycle. We explore how coupling the generation of information with that of social capital can provide opportunities to collectively build trust in institutions, accelerate recovery and facilitate the ‘e-society’. We outline the key aspects of reali...
Supporting eResearch: The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative
The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) was the first State-funded initiative of its... more The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) was the first State-funded initiative of its kind in Australia. The establishment of VeRSI follows on the heels of the former Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) decision to commission the then Australian eResearch Coordinating Committee to undertake a comprehensive review of eResearch and to recommend how Australia, cognisant of efforts elsewhere, such as the UK eScience Programme, could coordinate a national eResearch initiative.One of the recommendations of the Committee was the foundation of an eResearch Centre consisting of a coordinating body and six state-based nodes to facilitate the transfer of eResearch methodologies to the research community.The government of the State of Victoria, through Multimedia Victoria, had been thinking along similar lines and in 2006 announced funding for VeRSI as part of its Life Science Statement. VeRSI was set up in the same year as an AU$8m-funded eResearch programme running over 5 years (2006-2011). Its primary aim is to accelerate and coordinate the uptake of eResearch in universities, government departments and research organisations within the State of Victoria and to inform, through exemplars, other programmes in Australia and abroad
RDA COVID-19 Working Group. Recommendations and Guidelines on data sharing. : Final release
This is the final version of the Recommendations and Guidelines from the RDA COVID-19 Working Gro... more This is the final version of the Recommendations and Guidelines from the RDA COVID-19 Working Group, and has been endorsed through the official RDA process. The Research Data Alliance (RDA) COVID-19 Working Group members bring various, global expertise to develop a body of work that comprises how data from multiple disciplines inform response to a pandemic combined with guidelines and recommendations on data sharing under the present COVID-19 cicumstances. This extends to research software sharing, in recognition of the key role in software in analysing data. The work has been divided into four research areas (namely, clinical, omics, epidemiology, social sciences) with four cross cutting themes (namely, community participation, indigenous data, legal and ethical considerations, research software), as a way to focus the conversations, and provide an initial set of guidelines in a tight timeframe. The detailed guidelines are aimed to help stakeholders follow best practices to maximis...
An e-Sciences Approach to Climate Change Adaptation
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
This qualitative investigation makes suggestions about creating age-friendly cities for older adu... more This qualitative investigation makes suggestions about creating age-friendly cities for older adults focusing on three domains of the World Health Organization (WHO) age-friendly city framework namely “Communication and Information”, “Outdoor Spaces and Buildings” and “Social Participation”. The authors present two case studies, the first one focusing on older adults using activity wearables for health self-management in the neighborhood, and the second one focusing on older adults engaged in social prescribing activities in the community. The authors then reflect on the relationships of the domains and future opportunities for age-friendly cities. These case studies apply a co-design and citizen-based approach focusing within these larger frameworks on emotions, values and motivational goals of older adults. Results suggest how the convergence of the often siloed age-friendly city components based on older adults’ goals and input can lead to better social participation and longer-t...
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Public Health, 2019
This survey study considers the state of the art of participatory research approaches using serio... more This survey study considers the state of the art of participatory research approaches using serious games to improve public health. It provides perspectives on existing research and future directions.
Advancing women’s participation in climate action through digital health literacy: gaps and opportunities
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Exploring the contribution of health informatics is an emerging topic in relation to addressing c... more Exploring the contribution of health informatics is an emerging topic in relation to addressing climate change, but less examined is a body of literature reporting on the potential and effectiveness of women participating in climate action supported by digital health. This perspective explores how empowering women through digital health literacy (DHL) can support them to be active agents in addressing climate change risk and its impacts on health and well-being. We also consider the current definitional boundary of DHL, and how this may be shaped by other competencies (eg, environmental health literacy), to strengthen this critical agenda for developed nations and lower-resource settings.
Citizen Science for One Digital Health: A Rapid Qualitative Review of Studies in Air Quality with Reflections on a Conceptual Model
Citizen Science: Theory and Practice
The concept of One Health, a system-based approach that acknowledges the interdependence of human... more The concept of One Health, a system-based approach that acknowledges the interdependence of human, animal, and ecosystem health, has grown in prominence over the past few decades. This transdisciplinary concept is increasingly important as the climate crisis, directly and indirectly, impacts all aspects of the planetary web of life. In tandem with the rise of One Health has been the increasing adoption of digital technologies into healthcare practice and within methods used to research human and environmental health. Emerging at the intersection of One Health and Digital Health is the idea of One Digital Health. This syncretic concept explores the opportunities that digital health presents to further the utility and operationalisation of One Health. A notable feature of the One Digital Health model is the role of citizen engagement. This feature aligns the digital approach with many One Health interventions that use citizen science to improve human, animal, and environmental health. This paper reports the results of a rapid review followed by a deep-dive into several representative studies exploring the intersections of One Health, digital health, and citizen science to identify new domains of innovative practice that supports resilience in the face of climate change and environmental health hazards. A focus on air quality reflects its importance in the One Health literature.
Healthy, regenerative and just: Guiding the development of a national strategy on climate, health and well-being for Australia
The Journal of Climate Change and Health
Designing digital health applications for climate change mitigation and adaptation
Medical Journal of Australia
Environmentally sustainable equitable digital transformation is central to delivering low carbon ... more Environmentally sustainable equitable digital transformation is central to delivering low carbon health care models.
Frontiers in Public Health
Editorial on the Research Topic Digital interventions and serious mobile games for health in low-... more Editorial on the Research Topic Digital interventions and serious mobile games for health in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Pedell, S., Borda, A. and Keirnan A. Social Prescribing in Australia: How the Bottom-up Model of Citizen Science Can Facilitate Stakeholder Engagement in Health Service Design.
Proceedings of DLLD 2020 p76-94. ISBN 9789464078923 (eBook). European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL)., 2020
Originating in Europe, social prescribing aims for a more holistic health approach to increase so... more Originating in Europe, social prescribing aims for a more holistic health approach to increase social integration. Through a feasibility study on introducing social prescription in Australia we demonstrate that a bottom-up approach is necessary to understand how to involve healthcare providers, staff, and service users in designing a social prescribing service. We framed the involvement of the multiple stakeholder groups as one informed by citizen science to understand how to overcome organisational barriers. The result is a concept proposal that suggests service pathways for a social prescription based on the healthcare providers’ and their stakeholders’ values and needs. We suggest that citizen science needs to support evaluation of service impact and sustainability as part of a complex learning system. Our approach can inform other health related services giving future stakeholders a stronger voice in the design, implementation and maintenance of health services that extend the traditional medical model of health.
The Road to Integration: experiences in the Australian eResearch community
In this paper, we analyse trends of the first wave of museum websites (from the 1990s to the earl... more In this paper, we analyse trends of the first wave of museum websites (from the 1990s to the early 2000s) to understand how the characteristics of the Internet (specifically the World Wide Web), of museum staff, and museum audiences shaped the adoption of technology and new forms of participation and what they can tell us about engagement for museums of the future. The early development of online museum resources parallels the development of the EVA conference, which was establishing itself at a similar time.
SOUND, SHADOW AND LIGHT: generating the experience of a natural environment
Sound, Shadow and Light is a generative program that seeks to replicate the visual and aural expe... more Sound, Shadow and Light is a generative program that seeks to replicate the visual and aural experience of a natural environment in a designed space that responds to the inhabitants of that space. In a natural environment there are opposing senses of intimacy and expanse, bounded only by the horizon. While each natural environment may have different or unique elements in it, Sound, Shadow and Light explores the hypothesis that just a few of these elements may create a sense, or experience, of being in a natural environment. It will do this by defining and then distilling the prototypical elements of an environment to form an essence, a small set of events that may be influenced by the inhabitant to create a mental and emotional experience of being in a natural environment. Sound, Shadow and Light bases its approach on the assumption that the natural environment is mostly static with predictable sounds, and that this causes the inhabitant to ignore most of the events in the environme...
eResearch Australasia 2008
... Kerstin Lehnert. The second plenary talk on day two of the conference was delivered by Dr Ker... more ... Kerstin Lehnert. The second plenary talk on day two of the conference was delivered by Dr Kerstin Lehnert, Director of the Geoinformatics for Geochemistry Program at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of Columbia University. ... It was presented by Kylie Pappalardo. ...
The Integrative Biology Virtual Research Environment (IBVRE)
Chatbots have caught the headlines recently with businesses starting to adopt them to stimulate c... more Chatbots have caught the headlines recently with businesses starting to adopt them to stimulate conversation with customers. But what are chatbots? How do they work? What can they do for museums and their audiences?
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Conference Presentations by Ann Borda