Masters Theses
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The Masters Theses collection contains digital copies of AUT University masters theses deposited with the Library since 2002 and made available open access. From 2007 onwards, all theses for masters degrees awarded are required to be deposited in Tuwhera Open Theses & Dissertations unless subject to an embargo.
For theses submitted prior to 2007, open access was not mandatory, so only those theses for which the author has given consent are available in Tuwhera Open Theses & Dissertations. Where consent for open access has not been provided, the thesis is usually recorded in the AUT Library catalogue where the full text, if available, may be accessed with an AUT password. Other people should request an Interlibrary Loan through their library.
Theses are protected by the Copyright Act 1994 (New Zealand). The thesis may be consulted by you, provided you comply with the provisions of the Act and the following conditions of use:
- Any use you make of these documents or images must be for research or private study purposes only, and you may not make them available to any other person.
- Authors control the copyright of their thesis. You will recognise the author’s right to be identified as the author of the thesis, and due acknowledgement will be made to the author where appropriate.
- You will obtain the author’s permission before publishing any material from the thesis.
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Feasibility Study of Integrating a 120MW Photovoltaic Power Plant into the Jamaica Power Grid
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Utility scale photovoltaic (PV) power plants are generally feasible in geographic areas exposed to greater than 3 kWh/m2/day of sun irradiance. Jamaica is suited to capitalize on this natural resource, with reported yield ... -
Brand Equity in Cause-related Marketing: How Does It Influence Consumer Decision-making? An Experiment in Cause-related Marketing
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Cause-related marketing is a relatively new field that has attracted scholars and practitioners’ attention because of its uniqueness. It is a triple win approach that can benefit corporate firms, non-profit organisations ... -
Teaching Staff Awareness and Use of Infographic Technology in the School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Teachers are probably the most important factor in the educational process because of their role in organising students’ learning experiences. Future teachers require high levels of information, knowledge and skills to ... -
Deep Learning Based Object Recognition from RGB-D Images
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)In the field of computer vision, image recognition has been developing for a long time. Text recognition, license plate recognition, etc. are already very mature technologies. In recent years, with the development of deep ... -
Subnatural Axis: Resurfacing a Post-industrial Landscape
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)“Subnature is not about what is natural to architecture; it is about the natures we produce through our most radical architectural concepts.” Hazardous liquid storage, rust, debris, weeds, crowds, and seagulls settle ... -
Gaming Through Dyslexia: An Interactive Digital Application That Is a Learning Tool for Students Under the Age of Ten That Have Dyslexia
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This research thesis approaches the research question of "How can we use interactive digital applications as a learning tool to improve skills and abilities for students under the age of ten that are diagnosed with Dyslexia?" ... -
Kinetoscopic City: A Spatial Archival Recollection of an Urban Spectacle As an Immersive Cinematic Bi-location
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This creative research thesis approaches Fort Lane and its relative precinct as an invitation to reimagine, remap and rewrite the city as a kinetoscope2 arcade. Here, as a precursor to contemporary cinema, offered a new ... -
Predicting User Personality from Public Perceptions on Social Media
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Personality distinctively characterises an individual and profoundly influences behaviours. Social media offer the virtual community an unprecedented opportunity to generate content and share aspects of their life which ... -
Un/making Home: Spatialising Diasporic Rituals and the Poetics of Bread-making
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Un/Making home: spatialising diasporic rituals and poetics of breadmaking investigates place-making as a daily practice of domestic rituals. In this practice-led research, my family’s ritual of bread-making has been ... -
Branded Fan Pages and Brand Love: An Empirical Investigation
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Brand love is critical in building customer-brand relationships. In today’s world where brands and its customers are connecting by social media channels, it is essential to understand how brand love is built on digital ... -
She Cut Me From Ganna
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This project involves an embodied practice of healing through craft that speaks of hands, emotions, spirituality, and of women who resisted indentured labour during colonial Fiji. As a female descendent of indenture, I ... -
The Critically Reflective Practice of Online Educators: Constructing a Dialogic Pedagogy in Virtual Learning Environments
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Freire’s notion of dialogical pedagogy, where the student and teacher mutually grow and learn together and provide opportunities for personal and social gains, assumes the development of deep and meaningful dialogue in the ... -
Design Fables: Reconfiguring Emerging Technology Narratives
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The purpose of this interdisciplinary project is to investigate how a design-led approach could generate critical and creative narratives about emerging technologies. This provocation led to the creation of a design fables ... -
Matrix of Contingencies
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This practice based project explores how tacit knowledge serves the creative process of painting by providing a foundations for deciding how to act while painting. Because tacit knowledge is not brought to ... -
The Aesthetic Lives of Particular Nobodies: Exploring Phantasmic Fictional Character Narratives on Instagram
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This visual illustrative project explores the inherent fictionality of Instagram. Imagining Instagram as an urban environment, it follows the fictional lives of two main protagonists and their virtual circle of friends. ... -
Influences on the Ability to Recognise Fake News
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)This study analysed whether certain personal background attributes, such as age, gender, highest qualification and so on, impact on the ability to recognise whether the online news is fake or real. The study contributes ... -
Hei Poai Pakeha koutou i muri nei. You Shall Be Pakeha Boys. The Impact of Te Tangi O Kawiti on Ngati Hine Resistance to the Crown in the Treaty Claims, Mandate and Settlement Processes.
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)Ngati Hine, the descendants of Hineamaru and Koperu, is one of over a hundred hapu (people, subtribes) that make up the federation of hapu within Ngapuhi nui tonu, the largest tribe of Maori tangata whenua (people of the ... -
A Novel and Exegesis Exploring the Slipstream Genre and Its Relevance in the 21st Century
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)In this thesis, the Slipstream genre and tragicomedy are used to explore and convey the psychological damage and coping mechanisms that the protagonist, Sheryl Chateaupon, uses to firstly bury the traumas of her past, and ... -
Grief's Depth
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)The exegesis, Exegesis discusses the development of Grief’s Depth from genesis to thesis completion, as well as examining the influence of multiple texts which I engaged with, as a means of inspiration and influence, as I ... -
The Process - An Exegesis to the Thesis MS Dhoni: Triumphs and Disasters
(Auckland University of Technology, 2019)MS Dhoni: Triumphs and Disasters is a creative non-fiction book that relives the highs and lows in the career of India’s most successful cricket captain. It begins with the story of how cricket became such a big sport in ...