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Penny Black - Awareness International Film Festival
No full textSelf-centered twenty-something Penny Black (Astra McLaren) travels down the North Island of New Zealand in an attempt to save her job and opulent lifestyle. Along the way she meets a guy name Guy (Anton Tennet); who makes her slow her down and question how the world works.
Includes MERIT AWARD
Te Kaea News Interview: Maori academic critises prison policy at urgent Waitangi Tribunal Hearing
No full textIn this television interview I am challenging the impact of legislative policies that confiscated land, language, cultural identity and heritage. I am also discussing how these policies also contribute to Maori crime and prison statistic
Glimmer: Interactive installation
No full textGlimmer was an interactive sound and light installation research project that was made as part of the Hamilton Fringe Festival and exhibited at the Hamilton Band Rotunda on Saturday 12th March 2016.
Conceived and directed by Joe Citizen, it was also made by Jason Long and Dr Jeremy Mayall with additional advice provided by Gert Hattingh. Glimmer was grateful to receive the sponsorship and support of Waikato lighting specialist ACLX. This project also informed Joe Citizen’s PhD studies with AUT’s Colab, and received support from them
Transforming Maori experiences of historical intergenerational trauma- Chapter in a book. in: Matthews, N, Warriner, V and Kayes, P.H. (Eds). Indigenous social science research @ Awanuiārangi 2016. Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Whakatāne, New Zealand.
No full textThis thesis examines links between Māori deficit statistics, Māori experiences of historical intergenerational trauma, and colonisation. The thesis draws upon Western critical theory combined with Indigenous methodologies that employ Māori epistemologies or ways of knowing to make sense of historical discourses that have traditionally impeded Māori wellbeing and development. Indigenous methodologies such as Pūrākau theory are employed in this thesis to peel back layers of narratives that are sometimes intergenerational, to expose contributing factors to Māori deficit statistics. These theories interpret underlying themes and key factors.In essence the study examines Māori experiences; Māori concepts and oral traditions relevant to Historical trauma. Essentially four research questions are posed. "What are Māori experiences of historical intergenerational trauma?" "What were the political, socio- economic implications for Māori both pre and post signing of Te Tiriti o Waitangi?" "What significance does locating self in this research have in terms of contextualising Māori experiences of historical intergenerational trauma?" And finally "What are Māori strategies that respond to this phenomenon?
Learning Collocations with FLAX Apps
Get PDFThe rise of Mobile Assisted Language Learning has brought a new dimension and dynamic into language classes. Game-like apps have become a particularly effective way to promote self-learning to young learners outside classroom. This paper describes a system called FLAX that allows teachers to automatically generate a variety of collocation games from a contemporary collocation database built from Wikipedia text. These games are fun to play and mimic traditional classroom activities such as Collocation Matching, Collocation Guessing, Collocation Dominoes, and Related Words. The apps can be down-loaded onto Android devices from the Google Play store, and exercises are automatically updated whenever new materials are added by teachers through a web-based interface on the FLAX server. Teachers have used these games to provide supplementary material for several Massive Open Online courses (MOOC) in Law discipline
Synaesthetic Confessions - PLUNGE
No full textSynaesthetic Confessions
A taste and sound booth in collaboration with Jamieson Hudson and Tony Nicholls
“There seems to have been an increased fetishisation around food in the past few years. The boundaries between food and art are constantly being blurred, and restaurant showpieces become a specifically designed experience for all the senses. This work draws upon these ideas by still presenting an exquisitely crafted taste experience, but placing the “dining experience” inside a space that has other connotations. This whole physical experience is then combined with music. Drawing upon neurological and sensory science studies, links have been found between specific tastes and specific frequencies, so much so that the experience of listening to something while you eat can change you experience of that flavour. This work explores that phenomenon.
The Learning, Cultural and Social Experiences of Indian Students
No full textPresentation of working paper to Wintec senior management: Director International, Director CBITE, Dean's office representative
The research project investigates the learning, social and cultural experiences of Indian students studying in the Centre for Business, Information Technology and Enterprise (CBITE), at the Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec). International students comprise 48% of the students in CBITE. At least 50% of these students are from India, with the majority studying in the Graduate Diploma in Business Studies Programme
Face
Get PDFThe face is probably the part of the body, which most distinguishes us as individuals. It plays a very important role in many functions, such as speech, mastication, and expression of emotion. In the face, there is a tight coupling between different complex structures, such as skin, fat, muscle, and bone. Biomechanically driven models of the face provide an opportunity to gain insight into how these different facial components interact. The benefits of this insight are manifold, including improved maxillofacial surgical planning, better understanding of speech mechanics, and more realistic facial animations. This chapter provides an overview of facial anatomy followed by a review of previous computational models of the face. These models include facial tissue constitutive relationships, facial muscle models, and finite element models. We also detail our efforts to develop novel general and subject-specific models. We present key results from simulations that highlight the realism of the face models
Ecologies and comparative degrees of narration: Queen St., Thames, North Island, N .Z. (2010/2016): Ngaruawahia Rd., Te Kowhai, North Island, N. Z. (2010/2016): Ruakiwi Rd., Hamilton, North Island, N. Z. (2011/2016) [3x Sculptures]
No full textExhibition: Ecologies and comparative degrees of narration. NZ artists and Chengdu artists made up this exhibition and was curated by Ding Fenqi, Blue Roof Museum and Leafa Wilson, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Hamilton, NZ.
These three works engage with ideas of local water use, environmental conditions and primary human needs
Deadline-constrained workflow scheduling using imperialist competitive algorithm on infrastructure as a service clouds
No full textCloud computing is internet based computing paradigm that opens new opportunities for researchers to investigate its benefits and disadvantages on executing scientific applications such as workflows. Workflow scheduling on distributed systems has been widely studied over the years. Most of the proposed scheduling algorithms attempt to minimize the execution time without considering the cost of accessing resources and mostly target environments similar or equal to community Grids. But, in case of Cloud computing, usually, faster resources are more expensive than the slower one such that execution time as well as cost incurred by using a set of heterogeneous resources over cloud should be minimized. The proposed approach in this paper is based on Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA). The ICA is a new evolutionary algorithm which is inspired by human's socio-political evolution. Generally this algorithm mathematically models the imperialism as a level of human's social evolution and uses this model for optimization Problems. In this paper, we develop a static cost-minimization, deadline-constrained heuristic for scheduling a scientific workflow application in a Cloud environment. Our approach considers fundamental features of IaaS providers such as on-demand resource provisioning and unlimited computing resources. The results show that our approach performs better than the PSO algorithm in terms of cost minimization and percent of meeting deadline