Department of Information Science
Recent Deposits
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Investigating Cultural Dimensions via Developers Artefacts: The Utility of Repository Mining
A growing body of research is using artefacts from online development communities to explore the impact of developers’ behaviours on the software development process. Although this research has produced many insights, ... -
Agent-based models of long-distance trading societies
Studying historical trading societies helps us to identify the institutions (e.g. rules) and characteristics that lead to their success or failure. Historically, long-distance trading societies, as a more particular example ... -
Removing spatial boundaries in immersive mobile communications
Despite a worldwide trend towards mobile computing, current telepresence experiences focus on stationary desktop computers, limiting how, when, and where researched solutions can be used. In this thesis I demonstrate that ... -
Investigating value propositions in social media: studies of brand and customer exchanges on Twitter
Social media presents one of the richest forums to investigate publicly explicit brand value propositions and its corresponding customer engagement. Seldom have researchers investigated the nature of value propositions ... -
Interaction and Emotional Response in Immersive Virtual Reality Learning Environments
Virtual Reality (VR) is seen as a promising tool for effective education. The flexibility, controllability, and interactive capabilities of VR allow for a range of immersive experiences. This presents an opportunity for ... -
Energy efficiency: modelling and performance analysis of self-powered sensors
The idea of employing harvested energy from human motion to run electronic devices such as self-powered sensors in fitness gadgets is attracting increased attention of many researchers. However, there is still limited ... -
Closing Price Manipulation and Market Quality
This thesis examines the impact of closing price manipulation (“marking the close”) on several dimensions of equity market quality, including both the efficiency and integrity of equity markets. Marking the close is an ... -
Human Activity Recognition in Smart Homes
There is an increasing interest in activity recognition analysis due to the tremendous growth of sensors and devices that have recently brought significant attention to smart homes research which promotes inhabitants' ... -
Accountability for Practical Reasoning Agents
Artificial intelligence has been increasing the autonomy of man-made artefacts such as software agents, self-driving vehicles and military drones. This increase in autonomy together with the ubiquity and impact of such ... -
Dynamic Demand Response in Residential Prosumer Collectives
This research aims at exploring how smart grid opportunities can be leveraged to ameliorate demand response practices for residential prosumer collectives, while meeting the needs of end-users and power grids. Electricity ... -
An Adaptable Long-term Condition Workload Prediction Model for Primary Health Care
The primary health care (PHC) system must manage the growing demand for care due to patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) such as diabetes, hypertension, and asthma. Population-based care can help address this workload ... -
Towards Energy-Aware Optimisation of Business Processes
Time dependent energy tariffs are a matter of concern to managers in organisations, who need to rethink how to allocate resources to business processes so that they take into account energy costs. However, due to the ... -
Capturing the effect of personality on teams with agent-based modelling
Continuing advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have changed the landscape of project management. Now there are increasing occurrences of short-term projects staffed by ad hoc assemblies of temporary ... -
Modelling cybercrime and risk for New Zealand organisations
The Internet is now fundamental to the global economy. Growing from an experimental and research network in the late 1960's, it is now the foundation of a wide range of economic, infrastructure support, communication and ... -
Multi-agent based Models for the Distributed Coordination of Energy Micro-grids
The recognized harmful environmental impact of emissions from fossil fuels (such as their contributions to global warming), as well as the diminishing long-term availability of fossil fuels, will necessitate a shift towards ... -
Virtual Reality Interface Factors in a Power Wheelchair Simulator
Power wheelchairs (PWCs) can improve users’ quality of life by enabling them to participate in the activities of daily living, decreasing their dependence on human assistance. PWC users are faced with restricted environments, ... -
Enabling Parental Stress Resilience Training with Virtual Reality
Transition to parenthood is a difficult task that involves major life changes. These changes can increase vulnerability to stress and mental health problems for mothers and fathers. Everyday parental stressors occurring ... -
Automated Digital Forensic Triage: Rapid Detection of Anti-Forensic Tools
We live in the information age. Our world is interconnected by digital devices and electronic communication. As such, criminals are finding opportunities to exploit our information rich electronic data. In 2014, the estimated ... -
A Framework for Implementing Software Measurement Programs in Small and Medium Enterprises
The economies of numerous nations, including New Zealand, rely heavily on the contributions of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In the last decade a shift to the provision and use of software services, rather than ... -
Enabling Real-Time Shared Environments on Mobile Head-Mounted Displays
Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) are becoming more prevalent consumer devices, allowing users to experience scenes and environments from a point of view naturally controlled by their movement. However there is limited application ...