Browsing Doctoral Theses by Thesis Supervisor "Parry, Dave"
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Cross-Agency Communication and Information Exchange in Disaster Healthcare
(Auckland University of Technology, 2021)In disasters, emergency management and health agencies usually play the biggest roles in providing healthcare services to the victims. Despite these agencies having common goals and operational similarities, post-disaster ... -
Design and Evaluation of an Ecosystem of Existing Mobile Wellness Apps for Supporting Treatment of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)The increase in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) in New Zealand especially in the Auckland region has increased the workload on clinicians. However GDM for a large part can be self-managed. This requires healthy lifestyle ... -
Disaster e-Health Scope and the Role of RFID for Healthcare Purposes
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Disasters, either natural or manmade, are sudden and mostly unpredictable. They are of such enormous scale that it is necessary for societies to embark upon special planning and preparedness before disasters strike to ... -
Discovery of High Quality Knowledge for Clinical Decision Support Systems by Applying Semantic Web Technology
(Auckland University of Technology, 2017)While the discovery of new clinical knowledge is always a good thing, it can lead to difficulties. Health experts are required to actively ensure they are informed about the latest accurate knowledge in their field. Many ... -
Forensic Readiness for Wireless Medical Systems: Designing for User Safety
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The focus of this research is on the risks associated with wireless medical systems (WMedSys) and devices in the healthcare environment. The deployment of wireless communications in medical healthcare environments has ... -
Fuzzy Ontology Case-based Reasoning Approaches to Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. However, current widely used regression models are known to have a number of drawbacks, including prediction inaccuracy for individuals and for other ... -
Interpretable Deep Learning Architectures for Mortality Prediction Inside the Intensive Care Unit
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)To improve the performance of Intensive Care Units (ICUs), the field of bio-statistics has developed scores which try to predict the likelihood of negative outcomes. These help evaluate the effectiveness of treatments and ... -
An Investigation Into the Independent Design of Audio Games Through the Development of the Audio Game Hub and Blind Cricket
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)According to the World Health Organization (2019), an estimated 217 million people worldwide are visually impaired and 36 million are blind. Although there are approximately 114,000 video games currently in active circulation ... -
Spatial-temporal data modelling and processing for personalised decision support
(Auckland University of Technology, 2015)The purpose of this research is to undertake the modelling of dynamic data without losing any of the temporal relationships, and to be able to predict likelihood of outcome as far in advance of actual occurrence as possible. ... -
Understanding learning within a commercial video game: a case study
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)There has been considerable interest and debate about the value of video games. There are researchers that suggest that video games are useful tools for engaging learners in engaging and authentic learning experiences (Gee, ... -
User interface guidelines for Tablet PC Arabic educational applications
(Auckland University of Technology, 2018)This research was motivated by a strong demand to improve user interfaces (UIs) for the Arabic language. Educational applications and tablet PCs were focused on, and the designers and developers of Arabic UIs were targeted. We ... -
Weight Estimation without Waiting: Design, Development and Testing of a Mobile Application to Measure the Length and Estimate the Weight of New Zealand Children for Advanced Paediatric Resuscitation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2020)Background Weight estimation is critical in paediatric resuscitation as the time taken to weigh a child could directly influence their survival and quality of life. Unfortunately, the weight estimation techniques used in ...