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  • Competition for IBL Placements 
    Ram, Shiu (Ninth New Zealand Association for Cooperative Education Annual Conference, 2006)
    Providers of tertiary education and training include work experience or real projects as compulsory requirements of a number of programs that they offer. Students have to meet either one of these requirements in order to ...
  • An exploration of the pedagogies employed to integrate knowledge in work-integrated learning in New Zealand higher education institutions 
    Ram, Shiu; Coll, Richard K; Eames, Chris; Paku, Levinia; Lay, Mark; Ayling, Diana; Hodges, Dave; Bhat, Ravi; Fleming, jenny; Ferkins, Lesley; Wiersma, Cindy; Martin, Andrew (The Journal of Cooperative Education and Internships., 2009)
    Work-integrated learning or cooperative education is an educational strategy in which students undergo conventional academic learning at a higher educational institution and combine this learning with some time spent in ...
  • Deployment of a Service Robot to Help Older People 
    Jayawardena, Chandimal; Kuo, I. H.; Unger, U; Wong, R; Watson, C I; Stafford, R Q; Broadbent, E; Tiwari, P; Warren, J; Sohn, J; MacDonald, B A (The 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010)
    This paper presents the first version of a mobile service robot designed for older people. Six service application modules were developed with the key objective being successful interaction between the robot and the older ...
  • Perception of synthetic speech with emotion modelling delivered through a robot platform: an initial investigation with older listeners 
    Igic, Aleksandar; Watson, Catherine I.; Stafford, Rebecca; Broadbent, Elizabeth; Jayawardena, Chandimal; MacDonald, Bruce (13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 2010)
    In this paper we give results of an initial investigation into the perception of synthetic speech delivered through a robotic platform. The robotic speech was judged by 19 residents and 10 staff of a New Zealand retirement ...
  • Human-Robot Interaction Research to Improve Quality of Life in Elder Care - An Approach and Issues 
    Broadbent, E; Jayawardena, Chandimal; Kerse, N; Stafford, R. Q.; MacDonald, B A (In Human-Robot Interaction in Elder Care: Papers from the 2011 AAAI Workshop, 2011)
    This paper describes a program of research that aims to develop and test healthcare robots for elder care. We describe the aims of the project, the robots developed, and studies we have performed in HRI in elder care. We ...
  • Teaching a Tele-robot using Natural Language Commands 
    Jayawardena, Chandimal; Watanabe, Keigo; Izumi, Kiyotaka (IEEE International Symposium on Micro-NanoMechatronics and Human Science, 2005)
    For Internet-based tele operation systems, user-friendly natural interfaces are advantageous because those systems are intended to be used by non-experts. In developing user friendly interfaces, natural language communication ...
  • Transnational Student Experience: Educational Spaces Created by Globalization 
    Monteiro, Sylila; Sharma, Rashika (4th International Global Studies Conference, 2011)
    It is accepted that education today is continually challenged by the process of economic globalization. Consequently the international knowledge network is constantly affected by developments beyond the control of academic ...
  • Sampling indigenous ground-living beetles in a stand of non-native tree privet (Ligustrum lucidum) in New Zealand raises new management questions 
    Blanchon, Dan; Pusateri, John; Galbraith, Mel; Thorpe, Stephen (Ecological Management & Restoration, 2011)
    Small urban forest reserves in New Zealand have been shown to have value in conserving indigenous beetle diversity. However there is little information available on the ability of non-native vegetation areas such as tree ...
  • Prevention of Winter Mould Growth in Housing 
    Su, Bin (Architectural Science Review, 2006)
    This paper reports on a study that researched the possibility of building passive designs to prevent mould growth in housing in humid and mild winter climatic zones without permanent thermal active controls. This study ...
  • Hotel Design and Energy Consumption 
    Su, Bin (World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, 2012)
    A hotel mainly uses its energy on water heating, space heating, refrigeration, space cooling, cooking, lighting and other building services. A number of 4-5 stars hotels in Auckland city are selected for this study. ...
  • The impact of passive design factors on house energy efficiency 
    Su, Bin (Architectural Science Review, 2011)
    The energy consumption of a house can be affected simultaneously by many building design factors related to its main architectural features, building elements and materials. The relationship between the building design ...
  • House Indoor Thermal and Health Conditions with Different Passive Designs 
    Su, Bin (ICECE 2012: International Conference on Environmental and Civil Engineering, 2012)
    According to the Auckland climate, building passive design more focus on improving winter indoor thermal and health conditions. Based on field study data of indoor air temperature and relative humidity close to ceiling and ...
  • School Design and Energy Efficiency 
    Su, Bin (ICSBIE: International Conference on Sustainable Building and Infrastructure Engineering, 2011)
    Auckland has a temperate climate with comfortable warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters. An Auckland school normally does not need air conditioning for cooling during the summer and only need heating during the winter. ...
  • Impacts of the Courtyard with Glazed Roof on HouseWinter Thermal Conditions 
    Su, Bin (ICESSE 2011: International Conference on Environmental Systems Science and Engineering, 2011)
    The ‘wind-rain’ house has a courtyard with glazed roof, which allows more direct sunlight to come into indoor spaces during the winter. The glazed roof can be partially opened or closed and automatically controlled to ...
  • Komuniti Tok Piksa Integrating Papua New Guinean Highland narratives into visual HIV prevention and education material 
    Thomas, , V; Iedema; Britton, R; Eggins, K; Kualawi, J; Mel, M; Papoutsaki, Evangelia (2012)
    This report presents the findings of the first phase of the Komuniti Tok Piksa (henceforth ‘KTP’) project, a research project commissioned by the National AIDS Council and AusAID under the large research grant funding ...
  • The licensed building practitioner scheme: another step in the New Zealand leaking building battle 
    Murphy, Chris (46th Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), 2012)
    The long-term proposal to license building practitioners, a reality from 1st March 2012, marks a significant retreat from the strong pioneering tradition of self-help building that historically has been a significant element ...
  • Action and Re action: home grown timber and imported prefabricated housing. 
    Murphy, Chris (43rd Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association: Performative Ecologies in the Built Environment; Sustainable Research Across Disciplines, 2009)
    One thousand prefabricated buildings were imported in a systematic manner by the New Zealand Government from Europe and erected in the Titahi Bay area of Wellington and the Tamaki area of Auckland NZ. These kitset ...
  • Temperate Modernity: The Whangarei architecture of Alfred Morgan in the 1930s 
    Francis, Kerry ("Pleasing homogeneity","dull times", and "animated cocktails": New Zealand Architecture in the 1930s., 2006)
    This paper stems from my interest in how the ideas and forms of international modernism are translated to a local architectural context. In 2003 I was teaching the history of modernism to students studying for the National ...
  • The Factory and the Chicken House: Construction Experiments in 1950s Auckland 
    Francis, Kerry (45th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association, 2011)
    A posthumous 1992 curriculum vitae for the Architect and Engineer, Richard Hobin records that during the period 1951-1953 he designed and built eight houses and seven factories in the New Zealand city of Auckland. Hobin’s ...
  • Draw EDward Draw: Atmosphere, Choreography and Context in First Year Architecture. 
    Francis, Kerry (FARU Conference , Sri Lanka August 2011, 2011)
    This paper examines a First Year Architecture Studio project, Bathe: Atmosphere, Choreography and Context in the Orthographic Section, conducted at Unitec Department of Architecture, Auckland during the second semester of ...