• Visualization Projects

    Bringing data and information to life through visual storytelling.

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    Digital Health Roadmap

    Client: Swiss National Science Foundation.

    Audience: Policymakers in Switzerland.

    Goal: Develop a compelling visual language and presentation format for a policy roadmap derived from stakeholder-driven research.

    Format: Interactive visual, website, and printed brochure

    Evaluation: Expert review and user testing.

     

    Explore here: https://digitalhealthroadmap.ethz.ch/

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    Policy Visualisation for the WHO

    Client: World Health Organization (WHO)

    Audience: Researchers, policymakers, health professionals, and the public.

    Goal: Develop a visual representation of the challenges associated with large, multi-modal artificial intelligence models in healthcare, incorporating WHO recommendations for responsible development and implementation.

    Format: visual graphic for PDF.

    Evaluation: Expert review by healthcare and AI specialists.

     

    View here: who.int/publications/i/item/9789240084759

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    Ethical Systems Map

    Client: Swiss Personalised Health Network

    Audience: Researchers, policymakers, health professionals, and the general public.

    Goal: Enhance accessibility and applicability of the SPHN's ethical framework by visualizing key points for responsible health data use in research.

    Format: Interactive systems-map and online course with videos.

    Evaluation: User-testing results confirm that the map enhances user comprehension.

     

    Explore here: ethicalsystemsmap.hest.ethz.ch/map

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    ETHics Resource Platform

    Client: ETH Zurich

    Audience: ETH students and lecturers.

    Goal: Foster ethics literacy among ETH students, particularly in research environments, by providing a centralized platform for ethical resources like case studies, codes, and legal information.

    Format: Interactive online platform. Wesbite offers a curated collection of case studies, codes, guidelines, laws, and other ethical materials.

    Evaluation: Continuously evaluated through user-testing and classroom implementation.

     

    Explore here: ethicsrpt.ethz.ch/about 

    (*notes, switch-edu login is required.)

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    Health Data Ethics Digital Platform

    Client: ETH Zurich

    Audience: General public, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and researchers.

    Goal: To foster understanding of the complexities surrounding health data ethics by creating an immersive experience that explores the interplay of values, rights, and responsibilities within health data research.

    Format: 3D printed sculpture with sensors. Visitors activate projections through platform interaction, revealing connections and related content on the screen.

    Exhibitions: ETH Digital Health Conference 2018; Zurich Digital Festival.

     

    View here: ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/global/events/digital-platform/health-ethics.html

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    Interactive Ambient Data Shadow Visualisation

    Audience: Public, privacy advocates, and technology enthusiasts.

    Goal: To visualize the concept of a digital data shadow (as based on research exploring the interplay between individuals and their data.

    Format: Interactive installation. Kinect and MaxMSP were used to project the viewer's facebook data as a shadow.

    Exhibitions: 2018 International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners in Brussels; 2018 World Film Festival in Estonia; Conference of the German Anthropological Association (GAA).

     

    Documentation: vimeo.com/671806731%20

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    Inhabiting the Planet. La Cura

    Collaboration: La Cura Summer School.

    Audience: General public and technology enthusiasts.

    Goal: To explore the concept of "inhabiting the planet" by visualizing semantic and conceptual polarities derived from social media content.

    Data: Instagram images and Twitter status updates

    Format: Interactive information visualization allowing users to filter, compose, and mix content based on keywords and sentiment analysis.

    Evaluation: User feedback.

     

    Link: Sadly this digital artwork has become a ghost in the machine.

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    Entering the Space of Big Data

    Audience: General public, researchers, and technology enthusiasts.

    Goal: To illustrate the deconstructive and reconstructive processes of data analysis, emphasizing the subjective nature of data interpretation.

    Data: Text excerpts from semi-structured interviews conducted with Big Data and data visualization professionals at La Cura, Italy (2016).

    Format: Interactive visualization coded using Open Processing.. Credit and thanks goes to Generative Gestaltung: Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Gross, Julia Laub, Claudius Lazzeron.

     

    See documentation: vimeo.com/187451269

  • Publications

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    Can digital tools foster ethical deliberation?

    Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 2024. 

    An exploration of digital tools for ethical deliberation, examining their promotion of deliberative processes and their evaluation methods.

    How interactive visualizations compare to ethical frameworks as stand-alone ethics learning tools for health researchers and professionals.

    A JOB Empirical Bioethics, 2023.

    An experimental comparative study was conducted to determine whether an interactive-visual format supports frameworks in transferring ethical knowledge by improving learning, deliberation, and user experience.

    Fostering ethical reflection on health data research through co-design: A pilot study

    International Journal of Ethics Education. 2022.
    This study demonstrates the feasibility of a participatory, design-oriented approach to promote engagement with research ethics among early-career health researchers and highlights key challenges and lessons learned.

    Public engagement with health data governance: the role of visuality.

    Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 2021.

    Based on Gottweis’ analytical framework of argumentative performativity, this paper explores how two European public engagement facilitators construct contending narratives in efforts to make sense of and grapple with the challenges of health data sharing.

    Qualitative analysis of visual risk communication on Twitter during the Covid-19 pandemic

    BMC Public Health. 2021.

    This study’s objective was to determine how visual risk communication was used on Twitter to promote the World Health Organisations (WHO) recommended preventative behaviours and how this communication changed over time.

    Visualising an ethics framework: a method to create interactive knowledge visualisation from health policy documents

    Journal of Medical Internet Research. 2020.

    This study aimed to visually represent an ethics framework to make its content more accessible to its stakeholders. More generally, we wanted to explore the potential of visualising policy documents to combat and prevent research misconduct by improving the capacity of actors in health research to handle data responsibly.

    Experiences of donating personal data to mental health research: an explorative anthropological study

    Biomedical Informatics Insights. 2018,

    This explorative study investigates the experiences of individuals voluntarily donating their data to mental health research, specifically through the open data initiative OurDataHelps.org, which aims to develop effective suicide prevention tools.

    Entering the space of big data

    The Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology: Augmented Digital Lives: Experiences in Mobility, Big Data, and Robotics. 2017.

    ‘Big Data’ is a communally produced layer of digital documentation that when analysed and categorised often elicits a sense of ‘overwhelmingness’. This paper focuses on the experience of accessing this data both as producer and analyst. The research follows an interdisciplinary groups projects to produce wearable technologies and a collaborative online platform.

    Google a religion

    Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces. 2017.

    This research paper explores ways in which the internet has changed the way spirituality and religion are approached. Specifically it looks at the digital religion of The Church of Google - Googlism. This online community, not officially associated with Google, believe “Google is the closest thing to a god that can be scientifically proven.” This paper has been published in the book.

    Memoir: Never wear a watch

    This is the full memoir of my grandfather Neil Glasser MVO: Never Wear a Watch: Entrepreneur Extraordinary. Written from a third person perspective, my own, the story of Neil Glasser, the man who pioneered innovation retailing in the land Down Under, is told in the form of a collection of hilarious and sometimes poignant short stories. From running away to sea as a boy to turning down the Queen's Tea, his life is a page turner.

  • Teaching

    How I've integrated ethics and visual communication into various learning environments.

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    Ethics Workshop: The Digital Life

    ETH Zurich, 2019 - now

    I run a recurring university course that cultivates critical thinking and ethical discernment in the digital realm. Students delve into the foundations of ethics, consent, and artificial intelligence, applying these principles to real-world challenges in education, healthcare, media, and beyond. As the course instructor, I develop curriculum, manage logistics, assess student work (posters and essays), and curate digital learning resources.

     

    "Thanks again for the organizing the course! All discussions were thought-provoking, and it was also very refreshing to directly engage with the lecture contents and other students - an opportunity that is rather rare within my field of studies." - Anonymous student

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    Interactive Table CO2 Visualization

    Zurich University of the Arts (ZhDK), 2023

    I co-led a two-semester project with Interaction Design students at ZhDK to explore the potential of interactive visualizations in scientific communication. Students developed innovative visualizations using datasets from ETH researchers under my colleague and my guidance. Together we provided mentorship, project direction, and assessed the final outcomes.

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    Visuals in Qualitative Research

    The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 2022

    I developed and ran this workshop to equip qualitative researchers with the skills to leverage visuals for both research discovery and impactful communication. Covering visual fundamentals, aesthetics, power, technology, attention, accessibility, and tools, participants learned to transform complex data into compelling visual narratives.

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    Ethics module

    Cybathalon@School, 2020

    I co-designed this ethics module focused on for highschool students. Through activities like mapping their school route for accessibility, exploring cutting-edge technologies (like BCIs and exoskeletons), and engaging in ethical role-plays, students gain a deeper awareness of disability, inclusion, and the potential for technology to build a more equitable world.

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    Navigating Health Data Ethics

    Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) and ETH Zurich, 2021

    I developed this online course to introduce researchers to the SPHN ethical framework and its guidelines for responsible health data use. To enhance understanding, I created an animated case study demonstrating practical application of the framework. Interactive multiple-choice questions, rigorously tested through expert review and user feedback, reinforce learning.

  • Films

    A collection of visual narratives exploring diverse themes.

    Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

    Promo video, 2024

    WORLD MINDS

    This video was a prelude to Prof. Vayena's presentation on the ethical and policy implications of AI in healthcare, at the World Minds meeting in Zurich 2024. The video explores the ethical dilemmas of using AI to shape the future of healthcare.

    My Favourite Scientist

    Short Film, 2021

    ETH Zurich

    This work was collectively made by us PhD students at a D-​HEST Association of Scientific Staff (HAS) Filmmaking for Scientist Workshop. In essence, the film aims to celebrate forgotten women in science.

    ETHics Resource Platform

    Digital Artwork, 2019

    ETH Zurich

    A promotional video for the ETHics Resource Platform - a website collection of ethics resources curated by the Health Ethics & Policy Lab. The aim of the video was to promote student awareness of the platform.

    Google a Religion

    Documentary, 2016

    NAFA Film Festival, Bergen Norway.

    A machinima documentary about the Church of Google, an online community, not officially associated with Google, that believes Google is the closest thing to a god that can be scientifically proven. 

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    Looking Up

    Digital Artwork, 2014

    Cheadle Hall Undergraduate Art Exhibition, UC Santa Barbara

    A poetic visual melange of time, place, space & authors. In splintering the safe, seductive, romanticised recordings of nature, Looking Up is a response to, and a reflection of the digitalisation & democratization of our culture.

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    Can Fairies

    Documentary, 2014

    Annual Undergraduate Video Exhibition, UC Santa Barbara

    Commonly refereed to as 'Can Fairies,' these individuals collect cans from bins, dumpsters, backyards and patios in Isla Vista and recycle them for cash. This is their story.

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    Infinite Deferral of Meaning

    Digital Artwork, 2011

    Art Express, The NSW Art Gallery

    A visual exploration of the linguistic philosophies of postmodern theorists Derrida, Lacan & Lyotard, who explore language as an endless play of signification. Creation begins with an idea. The idea is in the word.

  • Experiences

    A collection of work and collaborations in my professional journey.

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    Digital Methods

    Facilitator of the Winter School, 2024

    Amsterdam, Netherlands

     

    I took part in the Digital Methods Initiative's Winter School focused on 'Digital investigation with AI.' This program looked at addressing challenges like disinformation and content moderation, and delved into digital investigative epistemologies, including fact-checking and algorithmic auditing.

     

    During the workshop, our group investigated Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) on Twitter, employing tools like 4Cat and various other open-source tools to conduct a digital investigation of best and worst practices.

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    Health Ethics & Policy Lab

    Doctorate and Post Doc, 2018-current

    Zurich, Switzerland

     

    My research at the Health Ethics & Policy Lab of ETH Zurich creatively investigates the increasing impact of datafication and digitization on health care and health research. Through the use of digital methods and data visualization, my work explores and makes visible the complexities inherent in the health-data-ecosystem,

     

    We work collaboratively as a lab and are an interdisciplinary and dynamic group experimenting with ideas in health ethics and policy. Our team has expertise in philosophy, social science, clinical medicine, public health, data science, health policy, law.

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    Radical Data Project

    Contributor, 2021-current

    International

     

    The Radical Data Project is a research project that is also researching what it is. There is a goal. We want to imagine a data science that works for citizens and communities instead of destabilising democracies and selling us more shoes.

     

    To work out how to do this, we look at what other projects are out there, what are the connections between them and publish our findings. We think it change involves our own interventions and it needs to work across disciplinary boundaries such as art, activism and social science, and involves designing visual metaphors for invisible, complicated software concepts.

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    focusTerra

    CO2 Exhibition Coordinator, 2023

    Zurich, Switzerland

     

    I am the Project Manager of an upcoming CO2 Exhibition at focusTerra, the Earth & Science Discovery Center of ETH Zurich. The museum provides an interactive and engaging environ­ment for audiences to learn more about the complex processes within and on our planet.

     

    In my role I manage scheduling and organisation, the concept and design development, the narrative development, installation fabrication and production, and strategising marketing and promotion. I am also responsible for the exhibit's review, and final assessment.

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    Innovations Digital Mental Health

    Speaker at Digital Health Conference, 2017

    Westminster Abbey, London

     

    I presented my qualitative data study of personal health donation to medical research at the conference Innovation & Strategies for Digital Interventions in Mental Health. The overall aim of the conference was to combine psychiatry, digital technology and culture to discuss and bring innovative positive change for those seeking mental health support.

     

    It was amazing to see people from different disciplines and backgrounds coming together to share information about innovations in health.

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    La Cura Summer

    Data Visualisation Workshop, 2017

    Florence, Italy

     

    La Cura Summer was a weeklong exploration of the ubiquitous body in the hyper-connection era. It was an outcome of Salvatore Iaconesi's international project La Cura - open source for cancer. Set along a trans-disciplanary path, the week was composed of theoretical dialogues and meetings, designing and creative conditions and operational development situations.

     

    The result was an interactive installation shown at La Triennale di Milano, on the 3th and 4th of September during the XXI Triennale di Milano International Exhibition, as part of the “Condividi la Conoscenza” event.

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

    Visual & Media Anthropology Masters, 2016

    Berlin, Germany

     

    My masters in Visual & Media Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin focused civic engagements with big data and the value structures underlining data usages. My thesis combined digital anthropological methods with phenomenology to investigate digital data shadow donation to the platform Our Data Helps, an open data initiative advancing mental health research using social media data.

     

    I also worked within the department of Political and Social Sciences as the Student Assistant.

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    You Is Now

    Graphic Designer, 2016

    Berlin, Germany

     

    With a desire to expand my experience in UX/UI and graphic design I began work at the end of 2015 at You Is Now, a Berlin based incubator founded in 2010 by ImmobilienScout24 for early stage start-ups related to real estate.

     

    My role involved: Website re-design & development; Wordpress management; Print and online graphic design; creating marketing collateral, advertisements, & collateral.

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    University of Sydney

    Bachelor of Arts & Social Sciences, 2014

    Sydney, Australia

     

    My Digital Cultures Major critically investigated the social and cultural impacts of new digital media technologies. It combined scholarly critical depth with contemporary relevance.

     

    My Art History Major examined a wide spectrum of media and art practices; from the canonical forms of painting to video installation, processional ritual to performance art and early prints to land art. This major is highly relevant in today’s image-saturated world as it developed my skills in understanding and interpreting visual communication, expression and innovation.

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    University of California, SB

    Erasmus, 2013-2014 

    Santa Barbarara, California

     

    I studyid abroad for two semesters at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). Attending UCSB was a monumental step in growing intellectually, artistically, and socially.

     

    During my semesters abroad year, I reinforced my admiration for the power of digital art by exhibiting two new works; conquered my fear of performing spoken word poetry and made it a love; represented my university as a host for a Peers potluck; and helped put on the exhibition Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World at the Japanese National Museum in LA.

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    Carriageworks

    Communications Coordinator, 2015

    Sydney, Australia

     

    Since the beginning of 2015 I was the Communications Coordinator at Carriageworks, Australia’s leading multi-arts center. I worked on marketing and communication activities for both the Artistic Program and the Carriageworks Farmers Market.

     

    My role involved: communications, website maintenance, marketing, social media; graphic design, exhibition signage, print collateral; developing marketing opportunities & conducting audience research / analytic, and more.

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    Pozible

    Creative Media Coordinator, 2011-2014 

    Sydney, Australia

     

    At Pozible, Australia’s top crowdfunding platform for the arts, I was the Creative Media Coordinator. During my time there the company grew exponentially, with project numbers rising from a few hundred to several thousand.

     

    My role involved: Campaign consulting; Event planning and coordination (including workshops for hundreds of project creators); Marketing and social media management; Community engagement and development; PR; as well as Administration.

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