NACCQ - Conference 2004

The philosophy of the conference is the encouragement and support of new, emerging and established researchers in a safe environment while encouraging excellence and academic discourse. In keeping with this somewhat eclectic vision, there are several categories of paper.

Full papers

Full papers are peer refereed on submission by a review panel and accepted/modified/rejected. The editorial panel reviews final versions. They may be rejected or returned for modification at that point. The paper should be a maximum of 4000 words. The acceptance rate for full papers was 48%.

Intellectual Midwifery: the birth of a research paper .15 Bob Barbour >>>

Integrating International Students into Computing Classes: Issues and Strategies .21 Barbara Chamberlain, Beverley Hope >>>

Nga Iwi o Ngapuhi Membership System: Relationship Management and Relational Design .31 Radka Charkova, Aimee Lin, Tony Clear, Tess Lomax >>>

SoDIS SEPIA _ Collaborative Partnerships in Software Engineering Research .41 Tony Clear, Roger McHaney, Don Gotterbarn >>>

Agility in the classroom: Using Agile Development Methods to foster team work and adaptability amongst undergraduate programmers .49 Sandra Cleland >>>

Educational value of e-learning in conventional and complementary computing education. .53 Ken Eustace >>>

The Trouble with Teaching Programming .63 Patricia Haden, Samuel Mann >>>

Codes of Conduct for Computing Professionals: an International Comparison .71 Donald Joyce, Becky Blackshaw, Caroline King, Logan Muller >>>

Teaching Technology to the Playstation Generation .79 Paul Kearney, Stephen Skelton >>>

Putting the P in Programming: The importance of people and process. .85 Carol Kelly >>>

RelaxNG with XML Data Structures .91 Dave Kennedy >>>

Using SoDIS for Target Audience Analysis: a Fresh Field Application .103 Donald Koh >>>

An Example of Teaching Journeyman Level Programming: XML Conversion of Course Descriptors. .109 Mike Lance >>>

Dancing in the moonlight: The nature and extent of portfolio employment by IT academics .119 Samuel Mann, Andy Williamson, Russell Hynd >>>

The UDDI Registry _ A Work in Progress .125 Iain Morrison >>>

2 Classes, 2 Languages, 2 Methodologies and 1 Assignment .135 Trevor Nesbit, >>>

Logical Relational Datamodelling through Normalisation by Synthesis .143 J.P.Nijsse, R.J.Whiddett, Clare Atkins >>>

NACCQ Qualifications A Performance Review and Future Developments .149 Garry Roberton, Janne Ross >>>

Use Cases and Traceability: a Marriage for Improved Software Quality .159 Robert F. Roggio >>> table

How Safe Is Your Network? : A Guide to Practical Security Solutions .169 Hira Sathu, Caroline King >>>

Images of computers: a prehistory - hopes and fears realised? .177 John van Dyk, Samuel Mann, Peter Brook >>>

Concise papers

Concise papers are reviewed on abstract by a review panel. The completed papers are reviewed by the editorial panel and may be rejected or returned for modification at that point. The paper should be a maximum of 2000 words.

Comparing possible e-processes .189 Frina Albertyn >>>

A Preliminary Study of Students View Towards Computer Simulation as a Learning Tool .195 Mehdi Asgarkhani, Mark Lyons >>>

Technical skills needed in software development - a snapshot from 2002 .199 Erzsebet Bekesi, Nicky Gardner >>>

Negotiated contract learning .207 David Bremer, Samuel Mann >>>

Project Success: Defining, Designing, Constructing & Presenting a Capstone Project .211 Noel Bridgeman >>>

Free computing courses in NZ: considering their impact and importance .217 Trish Brimblecombe >>>

Do Methodologies Matter? .221 Peter Brook >>>

Using a third party language with Microsoft .NET .225 Ryan Clarke, Paul Roper, Paul Lyons, Giovanni Moretti >>>

SPUDS: Simple Pictures for Updating Data Structures .231 Todd Cochrane >>>

Do Tablets dream of electric ink? .239 Todd Cochrane >>>

The development of a concurrent English - IT Programme for International Students. 243 Tom Connolly, Dorothy Cleary >>>

Real world e-commerce: importing a Japanese used car .247 Stephen Corich >>>

Using degree courses to build industry relationships .251 Stephen Corich, Allister McLay >>>

The Impact of Avatars and 3D Virtual World Creation on Learning .255 Sue Deuchar, Carolyn Nodder >>>

Teaching Computer Science: an NLP Perspective .259 Andrew Eales >>>

Dynamic Data Analysed: The SECS & IS Poster Results .263 Kay Fielden, Alison Young >>>

Characteristics of success - Virtually there .269 Peter Garrett, David Youngman, Justin McCormack, Chris Rosecu,Samuel Mann >>>

The influence of Spatial Orientation on Student Performance - A Methodology .273 Randall Gibson, Judy Williams >>>

Flight Simulation vs. Real Aviation: 3D Flight Simulation Technologies .277 William Harvey >>>

Selection of an Internet Content Filtering Solution using the Analytic Hierarchy Process .281 Tim D. Hunt, Heather Wickham, Kathy Murphy, Michael Elrick >>>

A Case Study in Teaching Adult Students Computer Programming .287 Min Hu >>>

Modelling layers of artificial intelligence within a virtual world .291 John Jamieson, Kay Fielden, Logan Muller >>>

Research Supervision: Process and Experience .295 Donald Joyce, Bob Barbour, Kay Fielden, Logan Muller >>>

Doctoring the Profession .299 Donald Joyce >>>

Checking Originality and Preventing Plagiarism .303 Donald Joyce >>>

Adaptive Strategy for Voice over Internet Protocol in New Zealand .307 Jay Wen, Hira Sathu, Donald Joyce, >>>

Survey of the use of DBMSs in Polytechnics and Industry .311 Don Kannangara, Linda Fraser, Momir Radicevic >>>

The impact of technology on distance education .315 Parwaiz Karamat >>>

Moving from Classic ASP to ASP.NET .321 Xiaosong Li >>>

Applying adult learning principles in teaching a challenging course .327 Xiaosong Li >>>

Assessing the impact of systems analysis and design on the project: proposed curricula changes .331 Gerard Lovell >>>

The Impact of Effective IT Systems Management on End-User Productivity: An End-User Perspective .335 Chris McCarthy, Trevor Nesbit >>>

Understanding Help Desks: A Hawke's Bay Study .339 Allister McLay >>>

e-learning quality: becoming a level five learning organisation .343 Chris Manford, Mae McSporran >>>

The role of literacy in the IT curriculum .351 Samuel Mann, Cindy Davies, Graham McGregor >>>

The Development of a Graduate Diploma in eCommerce .355 Trevor Nesbit >>>

Developing a Search Engine Design for Research and Development in a Polytechnic Teaching Environment .363 Jan Pajak >>>

Is there a MOUS in your house? .367 Robyn Pascoe >>>

Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates in a Data Warehouse .371 Russel Pears, Megan Mansfield >>>

Net-centric computing: a postgraduate course .Krassie Petrova, Nurul Sarkar, Jim Buchan 375 >>>

Specialization in ICT fields .381 Christo Potgieter, Joey Jansen van Vuuren >>>

Leading Academic Change Management: A Case study of Faculty formation .385 Christo Potgieter, Marlien Herselman >>>

Using ICT in Tertiary Education - Do We Dare To Compare? .389 Christo Potgieter, Marlien Herselman >>>

The dot net experience .393 Phil Robbins >>>

The Advantages Of A Virtual Private Network For Computer Security .397 Sid Sirisukha, David Skelton, Allister McLay >>>

E-Tailing - Has it arrived in NZ yet? .403 David Skelton, Alister McLay >>>

Assessment of ethical processes in computing education: Are we clean? How to tell? .409 Lesley Smith, Samuel Mann >>>

A flexible database approach for regional heritage and tourism information management .415 Lesley Smith, Samuel Mann, Nell Buissink-Smith >>>

Gearing up for Professional Practice: Enhancing Soft Skills for IS Project Students .419 Sarah Snell, Catherine Snell-Siddle, Danette Whitehouse >>>

Using the UML to Describe Design Patterns .423 Diane Strode >>>

On-Line Aptitude Test .429 Zhong Tang, Kay Fenton >>>

Prevalence of online assessment? Causative factors .435 Irene Toki, Mark Caukill >>>

Information technology, dyslexia, and the disabled learner .439 Maree van Praagh >>>

Beyond HTML: Creating extensible teaching resources using database and Internet technology .443 Michael Verhaart >>>

Doing it with Style: Structured Document Creation from Word Processing into HTML .449 Nick Wallingford >>>

The capstone project - a foundation for work? .455 Malcolm Wieck >>>

Teaching Computing and Provision of IT Support: A Bridge Too Far? .459 Malcolm Wieck, John McPhee >>>

Designing New Computer Laboratories: Fresh Ideas and New Layouts .463 Alison Young, Glenn Huggard >>>

Posters

A 915*600mm poster is displayed at the conference along with one page in the proceedings. Research primarily carried out by students is identified an NACCQ Capstone Projects logo.

Teaching style/learning styles…is there a connection? .469 Bridie Atkins >>>

Voice Feedback for Interactive Displays .470 Kevin Barclay >>>

Rocky Nook Bowls - Tournament Management .471 Euan Bichan, Maxine Miller, >>>

Providing Opportunities in Computing Education to some Highly Motivated Adults .472 Barry Brant, Kathiravelu Ganeshan >>>

Representing student learning-styles and personality-types with a modified Nightingale Rose .473 Chris Burrell, Tom Connolly >>>

Capital Press - Order Entry, Job Tracking And Quotation .474 Haydn Cain, Ben Wilson, Dipan Patel >>>

Information Transfer in Computer Language Learning .475 Rob Campbell >>>

Choosing for life interactive resource .476 Matthew Carter, Matthew Lyons >>>

What happens when HCI students escape from Flatland? .477 Todd Cochrane >>>

The Tablet PC, how well does it fess up with Kay's Dynabook? .478 Todd Cochrane >>>

HCI Design Patterns in FrontPage: looking at the Common Ground pattern language .479 Todd Cochrane, Sandra Smith >>>

Xellon - Photograph Management System .480 Donglei Du, Danxin Zhang, Shengli Yang >>>

Underwater hockey system .481 Robert Feist, Karl Miller >>>

The Theremin and the Computer .482 Kathiravelu Ganeshan >>>

Extreme Programming - A Success Story .483 Kathiravelu Ganeshan, Vicknes Ganeshan >>>

FAMILTRACK .484 Matthew Hamilton >>>

Knowledge Management - SCM and CRM in disguise? .485 Cecile Hoods, Trevor Nesbit >>>

Future is Wireless .486 Samad S. Kolahi >>>

Alternative CAD User Interface .487 Brook Lawton, Angela Meikle >>>

Storing data as XML vs MS-ACCESS in ASP.NET .488 Xiaosong Li >>>

Automatic Assessment Generator .489 Xiaosong Li, Zhong Tang, Jun Li >>>

Still got that old PC? .490 Tineke Manford >>>

Art of Computers - Computers of Art .491 Samuel Mann, John van Dyk, Peter Brook >>>

Complexity: A vital Aspect of Learning Programming .492 John McPhee >>>

Modelling Low Voltage Power Transmission Networks .493 Malcolm McQueen >>>

Copy-right or copy-wrong - software licensing .494 Shaneel S. Narayan >>>

"Serve i.t. right" hospitality training cd-rom .495 David Ponting, Luke Quarrie, Georgina Robertson >>>

The growth of IT at a Technikon in South Africa .496 Christo Potgieter, Nina Evans >>>

Towards Innovative IT Service Management? .497 Christo Potgieter, Petrie Coetzee >>>

IBL - Roles, Responsibilities, Relationships, and Results .498 Shiu Ram >>>

NSP - Job Tracking System .499 Firman Santoso, Shou Zhi Zou, Eakchai Jirawanitcharoen >>>

LAN-Designer Demonstration .500 Nurul Sarkar, Jason Lian >>>

Natural History Tours - Tour Management System .501 Oyvind Seljeseth, Martin Andersen, Solveig Kaaberg >>>

Data modelling approaches: divergence in practice .502 Andrew Sewell, Samuel Mann >>>

Introducing Students to microware using ANSI C .503 Rene Smit >>>

Weaving the fabric of IT degrees .504 Rene Smit, Samuel Mann >>>

Delta Software - Customer Services Support Site Extensions Project .505 Neil Smith, Marko Jovovic, Mirama Mahuika >>>

Information Systems Graduate Profiles: On-line and Alumni Implications .506 Irene Toki, Sam Ralston, Danette Whitehouse >>>

Identifying tertiary educators' preferred attributes to facilitate technical writing .507 Irene Toki, Erzsebet Bekesi >>>

Is there enough support for International Students .508 George Tongariro >>>

Linux Alternative .509 Albert van Aardt, Mike Mossom >>>

Developing stream based teaching resources utilising increased Internet bandwidth .510 >>>

Michael Verhaart Developing a Pathway for Information Technology Courses at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic .511 Nick Wallingford, Pam Fleming >>>

Geographic Information Systems in NZ .513 Linda Way >>>