Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies (Te Ara Auaha)
The Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies (Te Ara Auaha) is comprised of four school; Colab, the School of Art and Design, the School of Communication Studies and the School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences. It also has Institutes, Centres and Labs across the Arts and Sciences in a mix that blends the traditional and the new, praxis and theory.
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Classification and Identification of Industrial Gases Based on Electronic Nose Technology
(MDPI, 2019)Rapid detection and identification of industrial gases is a challenging problem. They have a complex composition and different specifications. This paper presents a method based on the kernel discriminant analysis (KDA) ... -
Discrimination of Two Cultivars of Alpinia Officinarum Hance Using an Electronic Nose and Gas Chromatography-mass Spectrometry Coupled With Chemometrics
(MDPI, 2019)Background: Alpinia officinarum Hance is both an herbal medicine and a condiment, and generally has different cultivars such as Zhutou galangal and Fengwo galangal. The appearance of these A. officinarum cultivars is ... -
Evaluation of Surface EMG-based Recognition Algorithms for Decoding Hand Movements
(Springer Verlag, 2020)Myoelectric pattern recognition (MPR) to decode limb movements is an important advancement regarding the control of powered prostheses. However, this technology is not yet in wide clinical use. Improvements in MPR could ... -
Tika Tonu AD2020: Creating a Virtual Exhibition of Design Artwork in Response to The COVID-19
The year 2020 was marked by the economic and social challenges originating from the COVID-19 pandemic; measures were introduced to enforce social distancing in a battle against community transmission. Places like universities ... -
A Liability Allocation Game
(IOS Press, 2019)The following problem is considered. Two players are each required to allocate a quota of n counters among k boxes labelled 1, 2, … , k. At times t= 1, 2, 3, … a random box is identified; the probability of choosing box i ... -
Analog Processes for Digitally Native Students
(School of Art and Design, AUT, 2020)When it comes to teaching communication design, educators today are not only faced with diverse pedagogical concerns and considerations, but also the necessity to adapt their strategies during unusual times. Being ... -
Visually Pleasing Knot Projections in R
(arXiv, 2016)In this short article I introduce the knotR package, which creates two dimensional knot diagrams optimized for visual appearance using the R programming language. The knotR package is a systematic R-centric suite of software ... -
Trying-out Digital Technologies in Trying Times: A Collection of Observations From a Collegial Adventure During Covid-19
(Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), 2020)CONTEXT In recent decades there has been significant discussion in the popular press about digital technologies enabling society to transition to a working-from-home scenario. Similarly, literature in the engineering ... -
Diversity, Inclusivity, and the News: Coverage of the 2014 New Zealand General Election
(MEDIANZ, 2015)Upon winning his third term as Prime Minister, John Key announced that he would lead a government for “all New Zealanders.” This study takes this statement of inclusivity as its point of departure for an analysis of ... -
WebLan-designer (V3) Over the Past Six Years: Motivation, Benefits, Evaluation and Reflection
(Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), 2020)The educational tool considered in this paper (WebLan-Designer) has four network modules, including wired local area networks (LANs), wireless LANs, transmission control protocol/Internet protocol (TCP/IP), and data ... -
JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership 2020
(AUT Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD), 2020)No abstract. -
General Relativity in R: Visual Representation of Schwarzschild Space Using Different Coordinate Systems
(The Open Journal (THEOJ), 2020)No abstract. -
The Potential for Integration of Wind and Tidal Power in New Zealand
(MDPI, 2020)This research focuses on proposing and evaluating an optimized hybrid system of wind and tidal turbines operating as a renewable energy generating unit in New Zealand. Literature review indicates increasing worldwide ... -
Conceptual Images in Advertising: Premises of the Advertising Image Powered by Technology and Interactivity
(Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco, 2020)With the increasing advance of information technologies, speed, confidence and precision in the transmission and reception of messages have become a constant in people's lives, mainly due to the powerful communication ... -
Evaluating the Impact of Puzzle-based Learning on Creativity, Engagement and Intuition of STEM Tertiary Students
(Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), 2020)CONTEXT In recent years, some universities in Australia, Europe and the USA, have introduced formal academic courses or seminars for their first-year STEM students based on a Puzzle-Based Learning (PzBL) pedagogical ... -
An Interactive Multi-agent System for Game Design
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)This paper presents a novel approach to procedural generation of game maps for multi-player, competitive video games. A multi-agent evolutionary system is employed to place streets, buildings and other items, resulting in ... -
Confabulations: Estranged Memories and the Unfolding Home
(enigma: he aupiki charitable trust, 2020)Confabulation denotes a memory disorder in which lapses in memory are reconstituted through falsely recalled experiences. In turn, this research considers the effects of confabulation, estrangement, and deceit on domestic ... -
Designing Slow Cities for More than Human Enrichment: Dog Tales—Using Narrative Methods to Understand Co-Performative Place-Making
Designing for slow cities and the need to design for future urban environments that include the more than human is a major priority for our times. This position paper problematizes the nature–culture divide in research ... -
A Framework for Re Thinking the Pedagogy of Studio-based Design Classrooms
This paper explores the application of a design-based research (DBR) methodology to inform the re-design of pedagogical strategies for studio-based classrooms within undergraduate higher education programmes. The goal is ...