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NIME: A Mis-User's Manual
No full textEver since the initiating workshop at the 2001 ACM CHI’01 Conference, annual New Interfaces for Musical Expression conferences have seen a proliferation of work featuring different forms of music, research values, philosophical, ethical and political standpoints. The 2025 ‘Entangled’ theme celebrates this diversity of creative, technical, and social ‘intelligencings’ (Thrift [68, p153-154]). It is precisely the non- or pluri-paradigmatic character of NIME that is its strength. Drawing on Maria Lugones [41], we characterise NIME less as an entangled weave—where threads maintain their separate yet assembled and interconnected character—than as a ‘curdling’ where relationships are more complex, varied, mutually interrupting and shaping, indeterminate and unknown without careful dialogue. We do not consider it appropriate to offer unifying frameworks or mappings with often hidden authoritarian implications. Rather, following Rancière [5], we prefer a radically democratic dissensus and, following Lugones, a spirit of ‘festive resistance’ where we poke at the limits of our inherited metaphors to undermine attempts to provide a fixed orderliness, (re)framing topics to kickstart exchange on new fertile grounds for collaboration. Multiple kinds and collisions of agency, and the lively openness of what some might deem ‘failure’ are prioritised over the often inhibiting closure and certainty of ‘success’ [e.g. 10, 11, 12, 40]. Our topics include: multiple ways of making as a means of maximising exposure to possible failure; shifting from interfaces to interfacing to create arenas for action rather than tools for purposes; foregrounding risk, inefficiency and forgetting; formulating improvisation as knowing-when and composing-the-now; performance practice, settings and contingencies; alternative resourcings/reframings for research; a wild spirit of tactical oppositionalism, dynamic uncompromise, and existential pluralism, to embrace the independence of divergent voices
Comparing the relationship between emotional responsiveness and psychopathy across assessment types: a systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textAlthough psychopathic personality traits are widely reported to be related to reduced reactivity to emotion-eliciting situations, findings are not consistent. It has been argued that these differences could be related to variations in the way psychopathy is measured. To examine whether measurement variance resulting from the use of clinical assessment versus self-report assessment could be driving such differences, this systematic review and meta-analysis investigated the comparability of relations between psychopathic traits and responsiveness to emotion-inducing tasks for clinical versus self-report measures. The systematic review resulted in eight studies and 131 effect sizes, which included studies of emotion categorization, emotion regulation, decision-making, and executive functioning tasks. Robust Variance Estimation correlated effects models revealed no significant differences between effect sizes for clinical (PCL-R) versus self-report (PPI, SRP, and LSRP) assessment-based psychopathic traits and emotion tasks. Despite the small number of studies that included both clinical and self-report assessments of psychopathy, these results do not provide any evidence for an assessment-based difference in correlations with emotional responsiveness across tasks. The findings also show no associations between scores on emotional responsiveness and indices of psychopathy. Future research on emotional responsiveness in psychopathy should include both assessment types to be able to increase the research basis for the comparison
Excavating Identity: The Significance of Soil Exhibitions for Understanding Place
No full textExhibition design, as a powerful medium of communication and interpretation, can reveal the hidden richness and regional identity embedded within the subterranean layers of soil. This research explores the artistic potential of soil, a resource often overlooked and buried beneath urban infrastructure. By showcasing the unique textures, colours, and structures of soil through carefully curated exhibitions, we can foster a deeper understanding of place and challenge the homogenisation of our urban landscapes. Reflecting on four soil exhibitions, including 2D and 3D displays as well as interactive gallery exhibitions, this research reflects on the potential of exhibitions to convey a message. This approach not only informs aesthetic decisions but also promotes the development of an authentic regional aesthetic, rooted in the very earth beneath our feet
Metabolizing New Zealand: 50 Years Since Nakagin
No full textThe first influential architectural manifesto from Japan to the world was ‘Metabolism 1960: Proposals for a New Urbanism’, revealed at Tokyo’s World Design Conference, Expo 60’. 2022 marks the 50th anniversary and deconstruction of Nakagin Capsule Tower, the quintessence of Metabolism. As the tower metabolizes again, could a new metabolism emerge- across the Pacific Rim?This thesis involves implementing provisional¹ residential architecture through the lens of Metabolist ideologies in the search for new notions of vernacular identity throughout New Zealand. Using New Zealand itself as the subsistence system (natural and urban environments) in which the development of processes begins and informs the development of products². The ambition of this thesis is to demonstrate a ‘New Zealand Metabolism’- found through identified Metabolist, vernacular and modular ideals combined to optimize designs for social housing. The analysis considers historical identity, housing limitations and urban lifecycles to inform design materials, forms, typologies and configurations. Exploring interplay between digital and physical modeling alongside critical reflection is used to determine the success of vernacular identity exhibition.A culture shift must be identified, griped and formed in the same way Kenzo Tange did with Metabolism in Japan. Metabolism is the ideological grounding of the work, re-evaluated within a contemporary context- addressing the lack of flexibility and identity that generic residential typologies offer within New Zealand. The housing crisis is the practical issue which the work grapples with- identifying potential areas/ groups of interest including housing complexes, urban areas or unorthodox locations such as infill homes. Construction systems and techniques are the realization of the work. Modular design and prefabrication could produce comprehensive transferable building systems, which acknowledge the transient duration of materials. These systems can be assessed under Housing Density Guidelines to reveals the strengths and capabilities of these ‘experimental’ systems.</p
The Making of New Zealand's Hansard 1854 - 1992
No full textThis is a historical study of New Zealand’s Hansard, beginning with its origins (British parliamentary reporting) but focusing more on how the idea of impartial, accurate reporting transposed itself on to New Zealand’s shores, when Parliament first met in Auckland in 1854, and continued to evolve into the early 1990s. Five separate but related histories of Hansard resulted from the research underpinning this study: Hansard’s origins, its institutional frameworks, its readership, how it was staffed, and how it was edited.The thesis concludes that New Zealand’s Hansard was inspired by the British system of parliamentary reporting but adaptation to local circumstances required looking more to Australian reporting models. With no model of indigenous representation to draw on, Hansard in New Zealand was constituted as a monolingual publication, but over time individual words and phrases in te reo Māori were included. Full inclusion occurred only from the late 1980s. Until the 1950s, Hansard’s editorial policies were shaped by decisions made by multiple parties (select committees, Chief Reporters, Speakers, Clerks of the House, the Government Printer, and Ministers in charge of the Legislative Department) and the editorial discretion applied by reporters and editors. The Legislative Council had minimal influence, in that regard. It was only in the 1950s that the British “substantially verbatim” reporting style was adopted in New Zealand. By the early 1990s its days were numbered as the evolution towards a more verbatim reporting style accelerated.The study addresses two gaps in New Zealand’s book history: the lack of research on the vast publishing enterprise of the public sector and the absence of a published history of New Zealand’s Hansard. While Hansard has long been relied on for historical and other research, its own history has rarely been interrogated. For that reason, scholarship is slim and rests on two ideas. The first questions Hansard’s reliability, because it is not a truly verbatim report. The second is more problematic, because it challenges Hansard’s authenticity and relevance; it is the sense that Hansard is best understood as a relic of colonialism and its ideological underpinnings must be deconstructed before it can be used. This thesis concludes that Hansard content is reliable and identifies how modern-day users of historical Hansards can avoid any pitfalls that arise from the circumstances of its making. But it argues that any such flaws need to be understood within the context of their times: lack of sound amplification and recording, a modest level of funding, and the reliance for 130 years on the skills of shorthand reporters. By revealing the role of the individuals who shaped the content and style of the published debates, and the way Hansard developments mirrored societal changes, this thesis concludes that Hansard’s “flaws” are best understood and valued as historic markers of its creation, rather than as a reason to devalue its relevancy for historical research.</p
International civil servants: Student feedback on WIL elements of a blended programme in New Zealand and on return to Southeast Asia. WILNZ conference.
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Ngaua Te Pae Hamuti - Rise To The Challenge: Tethering Commonality and Contrast to Create Positive Social and Environmental Change
No full textIn an effort to mitigate the ongoing impacts of hegemony in design, experienced as a result of Modernist storyline this research seeks to reconsider and recalibrate the Universal narrative. Reflecting on the dogged legacy of modernism, this research proposes that design has much to gain by exploring its past as, not one Universal history, but a series of intersecting and diverging narratives. Being place-based, in Aotearoa, New Zealand, this research begins by elucidating untold moments of intersection and divergence between mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge), Pasifika ideology and design’s solitary history. Having identified these moments, this work exemplifies the impact of including more diversified understandings of the past, and the knowledge it holds for the future. In these works, design students embrace Indigenous knowledge, specifically Māori and Pasifika worldviews, to guide their methods and mindsets, and showcase the benefits of incorporating these often-overlooked approaches on both global and local scales. Their work challenges linear perceptions of time and space and helps position them in relation to the problem and the solution. This research posits that our histories shape our futures, and that design has much to learn from Indigenous worldviews, and what they offer both design pedagogy and practice by, as reflected in the 2015 Transition Design Provocation, looking to the past to create solutions in the present with future generations in mind. Ki muri ka mua - I walk backwards into the future
Learning Approaches to Dynamic Workflow Scheduling based on Genetic Programming and Deep Reinforcement Learning
No full textDynamic workflow scheduling (DWS) in cloud computing is a critical yet challenging problem, involving assigning numerous workflow tasks to heterogeneous virtual machines under dynamic conditions to optimize cost or makespan. The complexity arises from unpredictable workflow arrivals and patterns, heterogeneous cloud resources, and rapidly evolving environments in workflow and resource status caused by real-time allocation. Among existing approaches, Priority Dispatching Rules (PDRs), are widely adopted for their intuitiveness, real-time efficiency, and ease of implementation. Manually designing effective PDRs is time-consuming, requires substantial domain expertise, and results in fixed structures that cannot adapt to various changes in dynamic environments. To address these limitations, this thesis develops advanced Genetic Programming Hyper-Heuristic (GPHH) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) approaches to automatically generate effective, generalizable, and adaptive PDRs for two practically important DWS problems, i.e., Deadline-Constrained Dynamic Workflow Scheduling in Cloud and Makespan-Aware Dynamic Workflow Scheduling in Cloud. Tree-based PDRs by GPHH have proven effective and interpretable in offline settings, avoiding the tediousness of manually designing rules. However, there is still room for improvement in terms of effectiveness and generalization. Neural network-based PDRs by DRL can address the adaptation challenge to rapidly changing environments in online settings, whereas tree-based PDRs, which are sensitive to structural adjustments, struggle to solve this issue. However, the potential of neural network-based PDRs for online DWS remains unexplored in the literature. In this thesis, we explore three key objectives, including: (1) evolving effective tree-based PDRs in offline settings through GPHH powered by a novel adaptive mutation operator (2) improving GPHH's generalization in offline settings through training instance sampling strategies, and (3) enabling adaption of neural network-based PDRs in online settings via a novel offline-online DRL method. First, we propose a mutation operator for GPHH with dual-tree representations, aiming to adaptively adjust the selection probabilities of trees as well as terminals, thereby improving the quality of evolved scheduling heuristics, i.e., GP tree-based PDRs. Extensive experiments and theoretical analysis demonstrate that the proposed probability adjustment techniques in the adaptive mutation operator enhance the effectiveness of GPHH in evolving high-performing scheduling heuristics compared to baselines.Second, we conduct a comprehensive investigation of training instance sampling strategies to enhance the generalization ability of the GPHH algorithm. Additionally, we propose a novel GPHH with a sampling strategy framework to facilitate this investigation. Through systematic comparison of rotation, mini-batch, and hybrid sampling strategies, the research reveals that mini-batch and our proposed hybrid sampling strategies can improve GPHH's generalization performance over unseen problem instances across various scenarios.Third, we develop a novel DRL approach to learning neural network-based PDRs, featuring innovations in task-specific and system-oriented graph representations, neural network architectures for actor and critic, and an offline-online learning framework. By integrating offline pre-training with online fine-tuning, it optimizes graph neural network parameters for real-time decision-making and continuous adaptation to future dynamic environments. Experimental results validate its adaptability to various offline and online scenarios, its effective architecture design, and its superior performance in terms of adaptability, transferability, and extensibility.Overall, the methodologies and findings presented in this thesis advance the state-of-the-art in DWS under both offline and online settings, offering practical use for cloud computing environments. The developed approaches demonstrate significant improvements in scheduling effectiveness, generalization ability, and adaptation to dynamic scenarios, providing valuable insights for both academic research and industrial applications.</p
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