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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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School of Art and Design [227]
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JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report 2019
(School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2019)No abstract. -
Design and Implementation of a Self-powered Smart Water Meter
(MDPI, 2019)Smart cities require interactive management of water supply networks and water meters play an important role in such a task. As compared to fully mechanical water meters, electromechanical water meters or fully electronic ... -
Sex and power in Māori carving
(World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WiPC:E), 2014)Traditionally Maori carving has been regarded as depicting benign ancestors. However, when looked at more closely we can see these carvings as articulators of sex and power in Maori culture - from the choice of ancestor ... -
Big Data Offloading using Smart Public Vehicles with Software Defined Connectivity
(IEEE, 2019)With the explosive increase in the number of mobile devices such as smartphones or laptops, the design of mobile applications becomes increasingly complex, power hungry and resource consuming. Therefore, conventional ... -
A Survey on Application of Non-orthogonal Multiple Access to Different Wireless Networks
The fifth generation (5G) wireless systems are anticipated to meet unprecedented capacity and latency requirements. In order to resolve these challenges in 5G, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is considered as a ... -
Para-Whenua-Mea – Muddy-Soil-of-Mother-Earth
(LIBRUM Publishers & Editors LLC | Basel | Frankfurt am Main, 2019)No abstract. -
Activity Recognition Evaluation Via Machine Learning
(European Alliance for Innovation (EAI), 2019)With the proliferation of relatively cheap Internet of Things (IoT) devices, smart environments have been highlighted as an example of how the IoT can make our lives easier. Each of these ‘things’ produces data which can ... -
Shaping and Delivering Tomorrow’s Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management System: Proposal for a Structured Data Management Infrastructure
(Inderscience, 2019)The monitoring and collection of municipal solid waste (MSW) data have been a daunting task. The development of a digital mapping, data collection, and data reporting system, allows for ease of data management and creation ... -
Redirecting Textile Knowledge; An Innovative Approach to Recycling
(Estonian Academy of Arts, 2019)This paper identifies an opportunity to design a localised textile waste system in New Zealand which provides the raw material required to develop a value added, closed loop, innovative and sustainable textile product. ... -
Collaborative Ecologies through Material Entanglements
(Estonian Academy of Arts, 2019)This paper addresses aspects of collaboration and conceptual frameworks in practice that are central to our project, Phenomenal Dress. The research has been informed by material thinking, posthuman theory and New Zealand ... -
Transformative Technologies and Social Change: An Introduction
(Academic Conferences International Limited, 2109)Rapid transformation in the technology is accelerating has create exponential growth in many areas. New innovation in product and services are seen in all sectors such as agriculture, medical diagnosis and treatment, ... -
Entrepreneurial Ideation: Effects of Morphology and Complexity
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019)Studies of product architecture identify a mirroring process between the product and the organisation. Parallel, empirical studies of effectual entrepreneurship show an accumulation of commitments between stakeholders while ... -
Human Gait Recognition Based on Frame-by-frame Gait Energy Images and Convolutional Long Short Term Memory
Human gait recognition is one of the most promising biometric technologies, especially for unobtrusive video surveillance and human identification from a distance. Aiming at improving recognition rate, in this paper we ... -
Community Capacity Building: The Role of Design in Entrepreneurship
(FGCU Publishing Inc., 2019)Academic entrepreneurship refers to efforts undertaken by universities to promote commercialization, start-ups, technology transfer and university spin offs. A growing trend among tertiary students is to consider not only ... -
Course Keeping Control of Boeing 747 by using a Minimum-order Observer State Controller
(Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors (IRED), 2018)In this paper, a state space mathematical model of the Boeing 747 was defined, particularly for the lateral aircraft motions. A dynamical behavior of the model has been analized through numerical and graph-analytical ... -
Interview With a Chainsaw: An Object Oriented Exploitation Manual
(College of Fine Arts (COFA), National Institute for Experimental Arts (NIEA), UNSW, 2014)This submission proposes critical reflection on an action in which the artist conducts an interview with a chainsaw. The submission is comprised of two recordings – the interview, and a contextual reading of the interview. ... -
Why Nasal Airways Experience Drying During Nasal-applied Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy
(Wiley, 2017)Introduction Since its introduction over thirty years ago, users of nasal‐applied continuous positive air pressure (n‐CPAP) therapy have commonly reported symptoms associated with airway drying. Here the normally robust ... -
Bearing Witness 2016: A Fiji Climate Change Journalism Case Study
(Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, 2017)In February 2016, the Fiji Islands were devastated by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston, the strongest recorded tropical storm in the Southern Hemisphere. The category 5 storm with wind gusts reaching 300 kilometres an hour, ... -
The Insecurity Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior Affair: A Human Rights Transition From Nuclear to Climate-change Refugees
(Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies / University of Canterbury, 2017)State-backed terrorism as exemplified by the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the Amsterdam-registered flagship of the Greenpeace environmental movement, on 10 July 1985 in New Zealand, and the assassination of pro-independence ... -
‘Carbon Colonialism’: Pacific Environmental Risk, Media Credibility and a Deliberative Perspective
(Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, AUT University, 2014)The effects of climate change are already occurring in all continents and across the oceans, and the situation has deteriorated since the last account in 2007, warned the United Nations scientific agency charged with ...