About Us
Our Mission
AACRC will drive innovations for human-centric augmenting technologies optimised for adoption and usability in the workplace, that not only improve productivity but that also increase levels of worker competency, resilience, satisfaction, safety and wellbeing.
Industry-Led Outcome Focused Research
AACRC will foster high-quality research through collaboration between industry, research, and government partners and engagement with informed community groups. Our commitment to high-quality research and innovation is supported by strong research capability and the significant experience and insight brought to the key programs by our industry and research partners.
The AACRC Industry Leadership Panel will ensure that the strategic research focus and collective capabilities of the partners are integrated within the research and development activities to ensure the delivery of program outcomes and outputs are relevant to partner needs. This includes the identification of commercialisation opportunities. Skills and knowledge transfer will also occur through sector-specific, industry extension services run by the CRC partners.
Successful, seamless, and easy Adoption of Technology for the workplace is an overarching focus of the AACRC.
The AACRC enables unique industry-driven incubators to assemble through its research programs.
Activities
The research programs are:
Program 1: Growing Australia’s Digital Technology Workforce
There is a significant technology skills gap limiting the workforce that can be recruited and employed. We will grow a technology skilled workforce to increase capability and sustain capacity by developing and refining content, tools, products and platforms. This will allow companies to rapidly grow the breadth and depth of skills increasing workforce participation and to enable that workforce to be more effective, particularly in high pressure domains.
Program 2: Increasing Access to the Digital Technology Workplace
There is a fundamental gap between humans and technology that must be addressed if there is to be widespread uptake of technologies. To expand the access to capability and capacity increasing technology it must be fit for purpose and fit for person.
Emerging technology is rapidly evolving. This program will focus on the future of emerging technologies; technologies which are at very early stages of development, such as predictive and generative AI models to enhance safety and manage risk in the workplace.
Program 3: Accelerating Technology Development for the Future Connected Workplace
We are seeking partner organisations to join the bid for funding in Round 25 of the CRC Program.
Resources
National Reconstruction Fund Corporation, Enabling Capabilities Priority Area
Oct 2023
Australia’s draft National Science and Research Priorities
2023
Productivity Commission, Productivity Insights Bulletin
Feb 2024