Ethics, Innovation and Design
Biographies
Roba Abbas is a Senior Lecturer (Operations and Systems) and Academic Program Director with the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and a visiting Professor with the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, USA. She is also a Co-Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society and former Associate Editor of the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. Roba has a PhD in location-based services regulation, and industry experience in web design and development. She primarily researches methodological approaches to complex socio-technical systems design, emphasising transdisciplinarity, co-design and the intersection of society, technology, ethics, and regulation. roba@uow.edu.au
Katina Michael is a professor at Arizona State University, a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Global Futures Laboratory and has a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence. She is the director of the Society Policy Engineering Collective (SPEC) and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. Katina is a senior member of the IEEE and the founding chair of the inaugural Masters of Science in Public Interest Technology. She has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and the Australian Research Council (ARC). Prior to academia, Katina was employed by Nortel Networks, Anderson Consulting and OTIS Elevator Company. www.katinamichael.com katina.michael@asu.edu
Citation 1: Roba Abbas and Katina Michael, 24 May 2022, “Ethics, Innovation and Design”, in Paul McMahon’s ENGG950 Innovation and Design, University of Wollongong, NSW Australia, 5.30pm-7.30pm.
Citation 2: Roba Abbas and Katina Michael, 31 May 2022, “Recap and Q&A on Ethics, Innovation and Design”, in Paul McMahon’s ENGG950 Innovation and Design, University of Wollongong, NSW Australia, 5.30pm-6.30pm.