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Ipads for Jurors?
A Research Plan
- Professor Anne Wallace,
Edith Cowan University
Computer Tablets
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Highly portable
Wireless connectivity
Relatively cheap
Easy to use
Increasingly widespread use
The growth of mobile computing
Advantages?
• Cheaper technology – can be deployed in
any courtroom
• Easier to find and view documents
- facilitate informed debate?
• Faster retrieval of evidence
– may result in speedier verdicts?
• Facilitate participation by all jury members
– enable more thorough review of the
evidence?
Issues?
• Are screens are distracting?
• Jurors may give undue weight to
memorable or easily retrievable
documents.
• Jurors using Internet to access extraneous
material or communicate about the case.
• Logistics – managing content, access,
document format
A research plan
The Team
• Professor Anne Wallace (Law, ECU),
• Dr Blake McKimmie (Psychology, University of
Queensland),
• Dr Vivienne Farrell (computer sciences and software
engineering, Swinburne University)
• University of Western Sydney: Professor David Tait, Dr
Marina Nehme- Justice Research Group, and Dr Ann
Dadich – Management)
Internationally
• Cyberjustice consortium, University of Montreal
• French Judicial Research Institute
A research plan
• Stage 1 – Jury deliberations
Methodology
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‘Mock’ jurors
Court managed Ipads – no Internet access
View a filmed trial
Deliberation conditions
– Ipad
– Ipad+shared screen
– Paper
• Deliberations recorded & transcribed for analysis
A research plan
• Stage 1 – Jury deliberations
– comprehensiveness and accuracy of recall of
prosecution and defence cases
– level of participation and interaction
– recognition and engagement with alternative
viewpoint,
– efficiency in finding and sharing documents.
A research plan
• Stage 2 – Evidence Display in Courtroom
– CyberJustice Consortium, University of
Montreal
A research plan
• Questions?