University of Waikato Research

• Personas revisited: Extending the use of personas to enhance participatory design 

  Bowen, Judy; Petrie, Helen; Hinze, Annika; Samaddar, Sanjit (ACM, 2020)

  Personas are a well-established tool in interactive system development, largely used with designers and developers. They can also be included in work with potential and actual users, particularly in eliciting user needs ...

  

• Insights into WebAssembly: Compilation performance and shared code caching in node.js 

  Nießen, Tobias; Dawson, Michael; Patros, Panos; Kent, Kenneth B. (ACM, 2020)

  Alongside JavaScript, V8 and Node.js have become essential components of contemporary web and cloud applications. With the addition of WebAssembly to the web, developers finally have a fast platform for performance-critical ...

  

• Reducing our prison population: Past failures and new approaches 

  Tauri, Juan Marcellus (Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library, 2019)

  Earlier this year the Minister of Justice, Andrew Little announced the latest in a long line of reviews, taxpayer-funded summits and inter-agency, ‘wholeof-government’ projects stretching back to the late-1980s, all aimed ...

  

• Investigating probability concepts of secondary pre-service teachers in a game context 

  Dayal, Hem Chand; Sharma, Sashi (Edith Cowan University, 2020)

  There is a rich literature on students' and teachers' intuitions and misconceptions about probability. However, less attention has been paid to the development of pre-service teachers' probabilistic thinking in teacher ...

  

• Teaching probability: A socio-constructivist perspective 

  Sharma, Sashi (2015)

  There is a considerable and rich literature on students' misconceptions in probability. However, less attention has been paid to the development of students' probabilistic thinking in the classroom. This paper offers a ...

  

• The weakest link: Revealing and modeling the architectural patterns of microservice applications 

  Podolskiy, Vladimir; Patrou, Maria; Patros, Panos; Gerndt, Michael; Kent, Kenneth B. (ACM, 2020)

  Cloud microservice applications comprise interconnected services packed into containers. Such applications generate complex communication patterns among their microservices. Studying such patterns can support assuring ...

  

• The city of digital social innovators 

  Certomà, Chiara; Dyer, Mark; Passani, Antonella (Cogitatio, 2020)

  The concept of digital social innovation (DSI) refers to a fast-growing set of initiatives aimed at providing innovative solutions to social problems and needs by deploying the potential of the social web and digital media. ...

  

• Swipe, scroll, add-to-cart: a case study of e-commerce gallery designs for small screen devices 

  Vanderschantz, Nicholas; Sijnja, Nicole (Design Research Society, 2020)

  With significant increase in mobile online shopping the design of user experiences that promote purchaser decisions and increase sales is highly desirable to retailers and their marketing and digital production companies. ...

  

• Holding a mirror to society? Sociodemographic diversity within clinical psychology training programmes across Aotearoa. 

  Scarf, Damian; Waitoki, Waikaremoana; Chan, Joanna; Britt, Eileen; Nikora, Linda Waimarie; Neha, Tia; Schimanski, Irie; Macfarlane, Angus Hikairo; Macfarlane, Sonja; Bennett, Simon T.; Hunter, John A.; Arahanga-Doyle, Hitaua G.; Abbott, Max (2019)

  It has recently been demonstrated by Crampton et al that there has been a marked increase in the sociodemographic diversity of the University of Otago’s health professional programmes between 2010 and 2016.1 This change ...

  

• Urban narrative: Computational linguistic interpretation of large format public participation for urban infrastructure 

  Dyer, Mark; Weng, Min-Hsien; Wu, Shaoqun; Garcia Ferrari, Tomás; Dyer, Rachel (Cogitatio, 2020)

  Urban Narrative works at the interface between public participation and participatory design to support collaboration processes for urban planning and design. It applies computational linguistics to interpret large format ...

  

• Retirement of Professor Peter Kamp 

  Nelson, Campbell S.; Lowe, David J. (Geoscience Society of New Zealand, 2020)

  Petrus Johannes Jozef Kamp, or simply Peter Kamp to his many friends and colleagues, retired on 30 June 2020 after 43 years on the Earth Sciences academic staff in the School of Science at the University of Waikato. Out ...

  

• Structure from randomness in halfspace learning with the zero-one loss 

  Kabán, Ata; Durrant, Robert J. (AI Access Foundation, 2020)

  We prove risk bounds for halfspace learning when the data dimensionality is allowed to be larger than the sample size, using a notion of compressibility by random projection. In particular, we give upper bounds for the ...

  

• Enhancing interactivity: how has design exploration of physically and intellectually interactive picturebooks enhanced shared reading? 

  Vanderschantz, Nicholas; Timpany, Claire; Wright, Kristy (Design Research Society, 2020)

  Children’s book design can have a significant impact on shared reading practices, interaction, and engagement. We hypothesise that books designed with the intention to specifically enhance the author’s story through ...

  

• Is it about a typewriter? Brian O’Nolan and technologies of inscription 

  Long, Maebh (2020)

  This article brings Friedrich Kittler’s media determinism to bear on a selection of works from Brian O’Nolan’s oeuvre. It briefly examines Myles na gCopaleen’s play with posthuman hybrids in Cruiskeen Lawn, seeing his ...

  

• The HfG Ulm and Sustainable Design: a comparative analysis 

  Short, Carolina; Garcia Ferrari, Tomás (2020)

  This article presents a comparative analysis between ideas of the HfG Ulm and the contemporary understanding of Sustainable Design. The Ulmer institution, through an innovative curriculum, an articulated discourse and a ...

  

• Interactive system testing using interaction sequences 

  Turner, Jessica (ACM Press, 2018)

  Interaction sequences (ISeqs) are an abstraction of interactive systems which allow us to inspect the interactive system behaviour. In this research, ISeqs are used to support interactive system testing. In interactive ...

  

• A diversity-aware model for majority vote ensemble accuracy 

  Lim, Nick Jin Sean; Durrant, Robert J. (Addison-Wesley, 2020)

  Ensemble classifiers are a successful and popular approach for classification, and are frequently found to have better generalization performance than single models in practice. Although it is widely recognized that ...

  

• A framework for estimating crime location choice based on awareness space 

  Curtis-Ham, Sophie; Bernasco, Wim; Medvedev, Oleg N.; Polaschek, Devon (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020)

  This paper extends Crime Pattern Theory, proposing a theoretical framework which aims to explain how offenders’ previous routine activity locations influence their future offence locations. The framework draws on studies ...

  

• Electromyographic assessment of pullover exercise variations and javelin throw on nine upper-body muscles 

  Washif, Jad Adrian; Hébert-Losier, Kim; Beaven, Christopher Martyn (2016)

  Exercise choice is one important variable for attaining athletic training aims. Pullover exercises are integrated into resistance training programs of javelin throwers to develop event-specific strength. We examined the ...

  

• Eccentric training interventions and team sport athletes 

  McNeill, Conor; Beaven, Christopher Martyn; McMaster, Daniel Travis; Gill, Nicholas D. (MDPI, 2019)

  Eccentric resistance training has been shown to improve performance outcomes in a range of populations, making it a popular choice for practitioners. Evidence suggests that neuromuscular adaptations resulting from eccentric ...

  

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