Let's talk robotics with Associate Prof Yolande Strengers
In today’s episode I have the honour of speaking with Associate Professor Yolande Strengers, who won the award in the category AI in Innovation for the Women in AI Australia and New Zealand Award 2021!
Yolande is a digital sociologist and human-computer interaction scholar investigating the sustainability and gender effects of digital, emerging and smart technologies. At Monash University, she leads the energy futures theme in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, which undertakes critical interdisciplinary and international research into the social, cultural and experiential dimensions of the design, use and futures of new and emerging technologies.
Yolande works with qualitative and digital ethnographic methods, theories of social practice and technofeminism to understand how people (and sometimes their pets) are incorporating new devices and technologies into their everyday lives and homes. Her research is applied in focus, and has involved a range of research partners to inform current visions, designs, platforms and policies for emerging technologies in the energy, sustainability and smart home sectors. Past and current partners include ANZ Bank, Ausgrid, AusNet Services, Energy Consumers Australia and Intel Corporation.
Yolande is author of Smart energy technologies in everyday life (Palgrave MacMillan 2013), Social practices and dynamic non-humans (2018), and over 50 journal articles and conference papers. She holds a PhD from RMIT University (Social Science) a Masters in International Urban and Environmental Management (RMIT University) and a Bachelor of Arts (Deans Scholars Program, Monash University).
Yolande is the winner of the Women in AI in Australia and New Zealand category
- Link to The Smart Wife: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-smart-wife-9780262044370
- Research paper on 'What can HCI [human-computer interaction] learn from sexual consent?': https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445107
Contact Yolande at yolande.strengers@monash.edu.