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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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Collections in Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies (Te Ara Auaha)
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Journalists as First Responders
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Covering terrorist attacks has posed numerous challenges to mainstream media across the world. Bringing information to the public quickly remains a primary goal for news media, but the journalistic duty to tell the truth ... -
Energy Savings Using Direct Current (DC) from Photovoltaic (PV) System in a Residential Home
(IEEE, 2019)The conventional AC nanogrid with photovoltaic (PV) system has suffered from power loss caused by power conversion from DC to AC and back to DC for most of the end use in a typical residential home. To overcome the problem, ... -
Feasibility Study to Install a 1 MW Grid Connected Solar Plant in Wairoa-Mahia Peninsular, New Zealand
(IEEE, 2019)This study intends to investigate the voltage drop issue along the Mahia distribution network (11kV line) and further assess the feasibility of developing a grid tied 1MW solar farm in Wairoa District, New Zealand. The ... -
Low Complexity Non-Intrusive Load Disaggregation of Air Conditioning Unit and Electric Vehicle Charging
(IEEE, 2019)Energy monitoring is inevitable towards achieving energy efficiency and conservation. Load disaggregation is one of the techniques towards effective energy monitoring. In the said domain, Non-Intrusive Appliance Load ... -
Application of Dynamic Thermal Rating: Overhead Line Critical Spans Identification Under Weather Dependent Optimized Sensor Placement
(Elsevier, 2019)Dynamic thermal rating (DTR) for an overhead transmission line is a viable and cost-effective technique based on real weather conditions to mitigate congestion and avoid load shedding for reliable transfer of the required ... -
The Effect of Propagation Models on IEEE 802.11n over 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz in Noisy Channels: A Simulation Study
(IEEE, 2020)IEEE 802.11 wireless local area networks (also called Wi-Fi) are widely used as Internet access technologies due to its availability, high-speed, low-cost, and standardization world-wide. While the performance of Wi-Fi has ... -
Into the Light: Sexuality, Erasure and Recollection
(Routledge, 2019)Stories of war are constructions. When filmmakers create narratives based on facts, they often need to verify technical details and seek out visual and social contexts for events and the characters who experience them. ... -
Macrosegregation in Dissimilar-metal Fusion Welding
(Elsevier, 2016)Solute segregation on a macroscopic scale in a weld between two dissimilar metals or alloys has long been recognized, but fundamental understanding of macrosegregation in dissimilar-metal welding is still lacking. Two ... -
Applying Visual Cryptography to Enhance Text Captchas
Nowadays, lots of applications and websites utilize text-based captchas to partially protect the authentication mechanism. However, in recent years, different ways have been exploited to automatically recognize text-based ... -
Model Demonstrates Functional Purpose of the Nasal Cycle
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)Background: Despite the occurrence of the nasal cycle being well documented, the functional purpose of this phenomenon is not well understood. This investigation seeks to better understand the physiological objective of ... -
Visible Light Communication: A System Perspective - Overview and Challenges
(MDPI, 2019)Visible light communication (VLC) is a new paradigm that could revolutionise the future of wireless communication. In VLC, information is transmitted through modulating the visible light spectrum (400–700 nm) that is used ... -
Identifying Common Problems in the Determination of the Thermodynamic Properties of Pure Substances by Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Students
(Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), 2019)No abstract. -
Transformative Change in Engineering Education
(Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), 2019)No abstract. -
Energy-efficient Massive Data Dissemination Through Vehicle Mobility in Smart Cities
(MDPI, 2019)One of the main challenges of operating a smart city (SC) is collecting the massive data generated from multiple data sources (DSs) and transmitting them to the control units (CUs) for further data processing and analysis. ... -
Ko Wai Ko Au Ko Au Ko Wai – I Am Water, Water Is Me
(LIBRUM Publishers & Editors LLC, 2019)Kaupapa Moana, Kaupapa Wai Maori, Kaupapa Awa Ocean, fresh water and rivers Water is both life-giving and life-destroying. Today, the purity of all water sources are threatened or impacted upon by a range of factors. Both ... -
Teaching (with) Empathy and Creativity in Design
(Design Research Society (DRS), 2019)Empathy and creativity are desirable core design competencies. The relationship between these concepts, however, has remained largely unexplored. This work unfolds the creases between empathy and creativity, ... -
Qualities of Design Briefs for Studio Learning
(Design Research Society (DRS), 2019)The design brief is considered a pivotal component in studio-based learning, yet there is a paucity of studies on the student brief genre in design education research. This work seeks to contribute by examining brief ... -
Agility Practices for Software Development: An Investigation of Agile Organization Concepts
(Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), 2019)In the context of agile software development in New Zealand and Australia, this paper examines the organizational agility related practices with agile software development. The paper looks at ... -
JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report 2019
(School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2019)No abstract.