Academic papers
Abos, R.M., Taffe, S., Connory, J., Karunasena, G.G. and Pearson, D. (2024). Reducing food waste through persuasive communication design: how data visualisation principles reinforce behaviour change social marketing messages, Journal of Social Marketing, https://doi.org/10.1108/JSOCM-07-2023-0156
Abos, R., & Franco, A. A. (2024). Understanding how designing physical data visualisations can influence behaviour change: a case study on consumer food waste reduction in Australia. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 1304(1), 012001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1304/1/012001
St John, N., Nally, R., Sultan, E., Haylock, B., and Abos, R. (2024) Reimagining institutional design internship programs to foster Indigenous-led and community-based learning and teaching, in Gray, C., Ciliotta Chehade, E., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.684
Data visualisation research projects
Food Waste Ninjas and Sleeping Sheep: Understanding the role of vernacular data visualisation design in civic engagement and influencing food-wasting habitual behaviours, Cumulus Conference paper and presentation, May 2024
Enabling Design for Environmental Good, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and RMIT University, 2022
Consumer perceptions and understanding of packaging: Journey mapping industry report, Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre, 2020
Opportunities for packaging and processing machinery and technologies to tackle food waste, Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre, 2020
Glass Fines: Using recycled glass fines in construction and product design, Sustainability Victoria and RMIT University, 2018
LCA in the Last Frontier: Quantifying the Environmental Impacts for Australia’s Antarctic Infrastructure, Australian Antarctic Program and RMIT University, 2018
Speaking engagements
Positive Disruption panel, Outlier Chicago 2024, Data Visualisation Society, June 2024
Socially Responsible Design, On Data and Design, May 2024
Understanding how designing physical data visualisations can influence behaviour change: a case study on consumer food waste reduction in Australia, International Sustainable Development Research Society Annual Conference, July 2023
Sensory Garden Lab panel discussion, Melbourne Design Week, March 2022
Sanitary Secrets: How Graphic Design can Perpetuate or Diminish Stigma panel discussion, Melbourne Design Week, March 2021
Situating Design in the Publishing Process speaker, The Wheeler Centre, November 2017, 2018
Contemporary Book Design in Australia, Melbourne Rare Book Week, State Library of Victoria, November 2017
Exhibitions
Visualizing Knowledge Showcase 23, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, June 2023
Sensory Garden Lab olfactory installation, Melbourne Design Week, March 2022
Interviews
A Q&A with Adam Spencer's Maths 101 book designer Regine Abos, Hardie Grant, 2022
Behind the cover: Factory 19, Black Inc, 2021