Discussion paper

Current state of automated legal advice tools

This paper is the first from the Regulating Automated Legal Advice Technologies (RALAT) project supported by the University of Melbourne’s Networked Society Institute. The project focuses on a cutting-edge development in legal technology: the automation of legal advice. It seeks to understand the practice settings...
Report

Coworking and an outer-urban community: what can we learn from a grassroots community coworking hub?

This report presents the findings from four focus group discussions conducted during Spring 2017 and serves as a first step in an ongoing investigation into the potential to innovate and nature of coworking issues facing people in outer Melbourne suburbs.
Report

Privacy in a world of the internet of things: a legal and regulatory perspective

This paper reveals findings from the research project around understanding and rethinking what ‘privacy’ means to individuals and IoT designers/developers in the realm of increasing digital connectivity.
Report

Telework, productivity and wellbeing

This project explored perceptions, issues and key considerations that relate to productivity and wellbeing of hybrid teleworkers in Australia. Hybrid telework is a way of work in which teleworkers work between one and two days from a location other than the workplace; in most cases...