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Smart Engagement for Urban Trees and Community Voices

Team: Joel Fredericks, Callum Parker, Martin Tomitsch

Year: 2016

Project Description: Vegetation management around electricity lines is essential for public safety, but it often causes tension in communities where tree trimming affects the aesthetic outlook. Engaging the public on these practices is critical for building trust and ensuring community voices are heard in decision-making processes.

Year: 2016

Interactive Pop-Up Engagement for Transport Planning

Team: Joel Fredericks, Callum Parker, Dawei Zhou, Martin Tomitsch

Year: 2016

Project Description: Transport infrastructure is a key part of everyday life in urban environments, influencing how people move through and experience their cities. Effective community engagement is vital to ensure that transport planning aligns with the needs and priorities of local communities.

Year: 2016

Sage: AI-Supported Community Engagement for Crisis Resilience

Team: Joel Fredericks, Martin Tomitsch, Marius Hoggenmueller, Alexandra Crosby, Adrian Wong, Xinyan Yu, Weidong Huang

Year: 2023

Project Description: Emerging AI technologies provide opportunities to enhance how communities and decision-makers engage in collaborative processes. This project investigates the potential of conversational AI agents to support inclusive dialogue and facilitate decision-making across diverse contexts.

Year: 2023

Building an Inclusive and Accessible Metaverse for All

Team: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Joel Fredericks, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Mark Colley, Youngho Lee, Khanh-Duy Le, Simon Stannus, Woontack Woo, Mark Billinghurst

Project Description: As immersive technologies continue to evolve, there is an urgent need to ensure that the evolving Metaverse does not replicate existing social and digital inequalities, but instead becomes a space that is accessible and inclusive for all.

Engaging Human and Non-Human Actors in Crisis Resilience

Team: Joel Fredericks, Soojeong Yoo, Callum Parker, Marius Hoggenmueller, Nate Zettna, Tram Thi Minh Tran

Project Description: Environmental crises, including natural disasters, habitat loss, and environmental degradation, require new approaches to engaging communities in decision-making. This project investigates how AI-supported immersive technologies can strengthen community engagement before, during, and after crises, enabling more inclusive and multispecies-informed responses.

Advancing Crisis Resilience in Vietnam and Australia

Team: Joel Fredericks, Soojeong Yoo, Callum Parker, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Khanh-Duy Le, Chơn Lê Trung

Project Description: As climate-related disasters become more frequent and severe, new approaches are needed to strengthen how communities and governments work together in planning for resilience.

The Role of Participatory Planning and Design in Addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Authors: Hilary Davis, Joel Fredericks, Marcus Foth, Glenda Caldwell, Callum Parker

Journal: Urban Planning

Year: 2025

Publisher: Cogitatio Press

The Third Workshop on Building an Inclusive and Accessible Metaverse for All

Authors: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Joel Fredericks, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Mark Colley, Youngho Lee, Khanh-Duy Le, Simon Stannus, Woontack Woo, Mark Billinghurst

Conference: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Year: 2025

Publisher: ACM

The built environment and social media: a semi-systematic review of architectural and design disciplines

Authors: Tracy Huang, Sophia Maalsen, Joel Fredericks

Journal: Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research

Year: 2025

Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited

AI-Supported Participatory Workshops: Middle-Out Engagement for Crisis Events

Authors: Martin Tomitsch, Joel Fredericks, Marius Hoggenmüller, Alexandra Crosby, Adrian Wong, Xinyan Yu, Weidong Huang

Journal: Urban Planning

Year: 2025

Publisher: Cogitatio Press

Urban Interfaces

Authors: Luke Hespanhol, Joel Fredericks, Martin Tomitsch, Andrew Vande Moere

Year: 2024

Publisher: CRC Press

Rethinking Urban Safety: Exploring The Design of Safety Robots from Women’s Perspectives

Authors: Zhang Qiuming, Xinyan Yu, Joel Fredericks, Marius Hoggenmueller

Conference: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI)

Year: 2024

Publisher: ACM

Beyond Human Interaction: A Contextual Review of Conversational Agents to Represent More-Than-Human Perspectives

Authors: Adrian Wong, Julia Spyrou, Joel Fredericks

Conference: Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (OzCHI)

Year: 2024

Publisher: ACM

Building a metaverse for all: Opportunities and challenges for future inclusive and accessible virtual environments

Authors: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Joel Fredericks, Tram Thi Minh Tran, Julie R Williamson, Youngho Lee, Woontack Woo

Conference: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Year: 2024

Publisher: ACM

Media Architecture Compendium Volume 2: Concepts, Methods, Practice

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Glenda Caldwell, Martin Tomitsch, M Hank Haeusler, Dave Colangelo, Martijn de Waal, Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, Marcus Foth, Luke Hespanhol, Marius Hoggenmueller, Gernot Tscherteu

Year: 2023

Publisher: avedition

Interior Media Architecture: Using Social Media as a Tool for Data Informed Design Solutions

Authors: Tracy Huang, Joel Fredericks, Sophia Maalsen

Conference: Media Architecture Biennale

Year: 2023

Publisher: ACM

Exploring Participatory Design for Urban Community Gardens

Authors: John Marcel Gemperle, Marius Hoggenmueller, Joel Fredericks

Conference: Media Architecture Biennale

Year: 2023

Publisher: ACM

Designing smart over a distance for sustainable communities: Reflecting on AI, the Metaverse, and the role of HCI for addressing the Sustainable Development Goals

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Hilary Davis, Callum Parker, Martin Tomitsch, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Marcus Foth, Alexandra Crosby

Conference: Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OzCHI)

Year: 2023

Publisher: ACM

Towards an inclusive and accessible metaverse

Authors: Callum Parker, Soojeong Yoo, Youngho Lee, Joel Fredericks, Arindam Dey, Youngjun Cho, Mark Billinghurst

Conference: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Year: 2023

Publisher: ACM

Designing Smart for sustainable and resilient communities: the role of participatory design in addressing the UN sustainable development goals

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Marcus Foth, Hilary Davis, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Callum Parker, Martin Tomitsch

Conference: Participatory Design Conference

Year: 2022

Publisher: ACM

Smart engagement for smart cities: Design patterns for digitally augmented, situated community engagement

Authors: Callum Parker, Martin Tomitsch, Joel Fredericks

Year: 2021

Publisher: Academic Press

Putting the people back into the “smart”: Developing a middle-out framework for engaging citizens

Authors: Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Joel Fredericks, Luke Hespanhol, Marianella Chamorro-Koc, María José Sánchez Varela Barajas, María José Castelazo André

Year: 2021

Publisher: Academic Press

A COVID-19 horizon scan looking for post-pandemic implications for design

Authors: Marcus Foth, Glenda Amayo Caldwell, Joel Fredericks

Conference: Cumulus, International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media

Year: 2021

Non-human personas: Including nature in the participatory design of smart cities

Authors: Martin Tomitsch, Joel Fredericks, Dan Vo, Jessica Frawley, Marcus Foth

Journal: Interaction Design & Architecture(s) Journal

Year: 2021

Publisher: Scuola IaD

Redefining community engagement in smart cities: design patterns for a smart engagement ecosystem

Authors: Joel Fredericks, Martin Tomitsch, M Hank Haeusler

Year: 2020

Publisher: IGI Global

From Smart City to Smart Engagement: Exploring Digital and Physical Interactions for Playful City-Making

Author: Joel Fredericks

Year: 2020

Publisher: Springer