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A multi-method evaluation of university website accessibility: Foregrounding user-centred design, mining source code and using a quantitative metric
(W4A 2017, 2017)Accessibility, which includes usability evaluation, is an important equity step in assessing the effectiveness and usefulness of online learning for students with sensory disabilities. A model for accessibility evaluation ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
A Growing Movement: Motivations for Joining Community Gardens
(Sustainable Development and Planning 2017, 2017)Community gardens play an important role in building urban resilience through improving food security and by increasing neighbourhood social capital. As community gardens become more popular in many countries, understanding ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Identifying Best Practices in Organisational SOA Governance Adoption: Case Study of Saudi Arabia's E-Government Programme
(PACIS 2016, 2016)While many organisations have implemented service-oriented architecture (SOA) governance to optimise their delivery of services, tremendous practical challenges persist at different organisational stages. The existing ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Designing Games for Presence in Consumer Virtual Reality
(ACM SIGMIS CPR 2016, 2016)With virtual reality technologies entering the consumer market this year, it is the task of those producing content for the virtual reality platform to ensure that users have an experience that lives up to expectations. ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
The Potential of Emerging Technology for Social Change
(ACM SIGMIS CPR 2016, 2016)The purpose of this panel is to explore the potential for emerging technology to engender social change. Technology is transformative, and has already seen innovative application in business and industry, and of course in ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Promoting Physical Activity in Seniors: Future Opportunities with Emerging Technologies
(ACM SIGMIS CPR 2016, 2016)High levels of physical inactivity that are trending upwards in the population present significant health challenges, particularly in seniors. Opportunities are present for emerging technologies to promote and engage seniors ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
The Rock Art of Kakadu: past, present and future research, conservation and management
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A Performance Analysis of MAC and PHY Layers in IEEE 802.11ac Wireless Network
(ICACT 2016, 2016)This paper gives an insight into IEEE 802.11ac by analysing its performance in terms of system throughput taking into consideration the key features of MAC and PHY layers. Throughput at MAC layer is calculated from ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Challenges in the Localization of a UHF Radio Pill in the Gastro-Intestinal Tract
(ISAP2015, 2015)Visual and chemical investigations in the gastro-intestinal tract using injected "pill" sized sensors are challenging. The throughput takes between 24 and 48 hours and a precise location accuracy to less than 5 cm is ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Concrete Simulators to Constructively Build Abstract Computability Concepts in First Year IT-Students and Enable the "Can Computers Think"
(ICERI 2015, 2015)In our Foundations of Computing course, the aim is not only to teach some general aspects on how computers work (like binary notation), but also to enable students to truly comprehend notions like algorithm, technology, ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Promoting Student Learning With Online Videos: A Research Agenda
(AMS 2010, 2015)Gen Y students are digital natives (Prensky 2001) who learn in complex and diverse ways, with a variety of learning styles apparent in any given course. This paper proposes a web 2.0 conceptual learning solution—online ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Binarization of Old Halftone Text Documents
(TENCON 2015, 2015)A degraded document image should be cleaned before subjecting to Optical Character Recognition (OCR), otherwise the result may be erroneous. Though major studies have been conducted on degraded document image cleaning, ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Temperature Independence of the Droop Effect in Blue LED's Grown on Silicon Substrates
(SSLCHINA 2015, 2015)Efficiency droop remains a significant problem to be overcome if the performance of LEDs for solid state lighting is to be improved. As more cost effective substrates such as silicon wafers are used on which to grow the ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Using Digital Technology in a Fine Art Practice
(CreateWorld 2015, 2015)The rapid changes in digital technology have led many artists across all creative platforms to incorporate digital media to their practices. In this paper, I demonstrate how fine artists can successfully employ computer ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Permitting Chaos as Creative Strategy
(CreateWorld 2015, 2015)The study of creative thinking has much to gain from the field of non-linear dynamics. Chaos theory and complex systems have been shown to afford insight into physical and psychological systems and it is the goal of ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Cinematic Evolution: What Can History Tell Us About the Future?
(CreateWorld 2015, 2015)Many commentators and proponents of the film industry have called for a review of the cinematographic award asking who is responsible for these images; the cinematographer or the visual effects artists. Theorist Jean ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
For Grief: A photographic social documentary of funeral directors and their experiences
(CreateWorld 2015, 2015)In many developed countries, death and funerals are often considered a taboo subject which people avoid talking about. “Death” and “dead” are often rephrased as “loss”, “gone” or “passed away”, and “the deceased” or “remains” ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
The Spatial and Temporal Poetics of Webcam Viewing
(CreateWorld 2015, 2015)This paper will explore the aesthetics of the pixelated scenes relayed across the globe by streaming webcams. It will examine the mesmerising and transportative powers that these shimmering pixels possess – what is it that ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Valuing the Older Dancer through Digital Technology
(CreateWorld 2015, 2015)Today’s focus on a youth-orientated consumer culture weighs heavily in the current dance world and for some who are approaching forty, retirement is perceived as the legitimate choice. Should this still be the case? The ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT -
Seeking the animation artist in a multi-projection environment
(CreateWorld 2015, 2015)Animation’s linear narrative paradigm screened on rectangular flat surfaces remains paramount in mainstream commercial viewing modes, however the affordances of current technology present alternate opportunities ...CONFERENCE OUTPUT