The 16th Annual

Conference 2003

Prologue

The conference contains papers in the following areas:

• computing education
• computing practice
• computing research

The theme this year is "New fields, fresh horizons".

Philosophy

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.

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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%.

Full papers

Paper	Speakers	Page No.	Pdf
Intellectual Midwifery: the birth of a research paper	Bob Barbour	15
Integrating International Students into Computing Classes: Issues and Strategies	Barbara Chamberlain, Beverley Hope	21
NgaIwi o Ngapuhi Membership System: Relationship Management and Relational Design	Radka Charkova, Aimee Lin, Tony Clear, Tess Lomax	31
SoDIS SEPIA _ Collaborative Partnerships in Software Engineering Research	Tony Clear, Roger McHaney, Don Gotterbarn	41
Agility in the classroom: Using Agile Development Methods to foster team work and adaptability amongst undergraduate programmers .	Sandra Cleland	49
Educational value of e-learning in conventional and complementary computing education.	Ken Eustace	53
The Trouble with Teaching Programming.	Patricia Haden, Samuel Mann	63
Codes of Conduct for Computing Professionals: an International Comparison .	Donald Joyce, Becky Blackshaw, Caroline King, Logan Muller	71
Teaching Technology to the Playstation Generation	Paul Kearney, Stephen Skelton	79
Putting the P in Programming: The importance of people and process.	Carol Kelly	85
RelaxNG with XML Data Structures.	Dave Kennedy	91
Using SoDIS for Target Audience Analysis: a Fresh Field Application.	Donald Koh	103
An Example of Teaching Journeyman Level Programming: XML Conversion of Course Descriptors.	Mike Lance	109<
Dancing in the moonlight: The nature and extent of portfolio employment IT academics.	Samuel Mann, Andy Williamson, Russell Hynd	119
The UDDI Registry _ A Work in Progress.	Iain Morrison	125
2 Classes, 2 Languages, 2 Methodologies and 1 Assignment.	Trevor Nesbit	135
Logical Relational Datamodelling through Normalisation by Synthesis.	J.P.Nijsse, R.J.Whiddett, Clare Atkins	143
NACCQ Qualifications A Performance Review and Future Developments.	Garry Roberton, Janne Ross	149
Use Cases and Traceability: A Marriage for Improved Software Quality.	Robert F. Roggio	159	table
How Safe Is Your Network? : A Guide to Practical Security Solutions.	Hira Sathu, Caroline King	169
Images of computers: a prehistory - hopes and fears realised?.	John van Dyk, Samuel Mann, Peter Brook	177

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.

Concise papers

Paper	Speakers	Page No.	Pdf
Comparing possible e-processes.	Frina Albertyn	189
A Preliminary Study of Students View Towards Computer Simulation as a Learning Tool.	Mehdi Asgarkhani, Mark Lyons	195
Technical skills needed in software development - a snapshot from 2002.	Erzsebet Bekesi, Nicky Gardner	199
Negotiated contract learning.	David Bremer, Samuel Mann	207
Project Success: Defining, Designing, Constructing & Presenting a Capstone Project.	Noel Bridgeman	211
Free computing courses in NZ: considering their impact and importance.	Trish Brimblecombe	217
Do Methodologies Matter?.	Peter Brook	221
Using a third party language with Microsoft .NET.	Ryan Clarke, Paul Roper, Paul Lyons, Giovanni Moretti	225
SPUDS: Simple Pictures for Updating Data Structures .	Todd Cochrane	231
Do Tablets dream of electric ink?.	Todd Cochrane	239
The development of a concurrent English - IT Programme for International Students.	Tom Connolly, Dorothy Cleary	243
Real world e-commerce: importing a Japanese used car.	Stephen Corich	247
Using degree courses to build industry relationships.	Stephen Corich, Allister McLay	251
The Impact of Avatars and 3D Virtual World Creation on Learning	Sue Deuchar, Carolyn Nodder	255
Teaching Computer Science: an NLP Perspective .	Andrew Eales	259
Dynamic Data Analysed: The SECS & IS Poster Results .	Kay Fielden, Alison Young	263
Characteristics of success - Virtually there.	Peter Garrett, David Youngman, Justin McCormack, Chris Rosecu,Samuel Mann	269
The influence of Spatial Orientation on Student Performance - A Methodology.	Randall Gibson, Judy Williams	273
Flight Simulation vs. Real Aviation: 3D Flight Simulation Technologies.	William Harvey	277
Selection of an Internet Content Filtering Solution using the Analytic Hierarchy Process.	Tim D. Hunt, Heather Wickham, Kathy Murphy, Michael Elrick	281
A Case Study in Teaching Adult Students Computer Programming .	Min Hu	287
Modelling layers of artificial intelligence within a virtual world.	John Jamieson, Kay Fielden, Logan Muller	291
Research Supervision: Process and Experience.	Donald Joyce, Bob Barbour, Kay Fielden, Logan Muller	295
Doctoring the Profession .	Donald Joyce	299
Checking Originality and Preventing Plagiarism.	Donald Joyce	303
Adaptive Strategy for Voice over Internet Protocol in New Zealand.	Jay Wen, Hira Sathu, Donald Joyce,	307
Survey of the use of DBMSs in Polytechnics and Industry.	Don Kannangara, Linda Fraser, Momir Radicevic	311
The impact of technology on distance education.	Parwaiz Karamat	315
Moving from Classic ASP to ASP.NET	Xiaosong Li	321
Applying adult learning principles in teaching a challenging course.	Xiaosong Li	327
Assessing the impact of systems analysis and design on the project: proposed curricula changes.	Gerard Lovell	331
The Impact of Effective IT Systems Management on End-User Productivity: An End-User Perspective.	Chris McCarthy, Trevor Nesbit	335
Understanding Help Desks: A Hawke's Bay Study.	Allister McLay	339
e-learning quality: becoming a level five learning organisation.	Chris Manford, Mae McSporran	343
The role of literacy in the IT curriculum .	Samuel Mann, Cindy Davies, Graham McGregor	351
The Development of a Graduate Diploma in eCommerce.	Trevor Nesbit	355
Developing a Search Engine Design for Research and Development in a Polytechnic Teaching Environment.	Jan Pajak	363
Is there a MOUS in your house?	Robyn Pascoe	367
Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates in a Data Warehouse.	Russel Pears, Megan Mansfield	371
Net-centric computing: a postgraduate course.	Krassie Petrova, Nurul Sarkar, Jim Buchan	375
Specialization in ICT fields.	Christo Potgieter, Joey Jansen van Vuuren	381
Leading Academic Change Management: A Case study of Faculty formation.	Christo Potgieter, Marlien Herselman	385
Using ICT in Tertiary Education - Do We Dare To Compare?	Christo Potgieter, Marlien Herselman	389
The dot net experience.	Phil Robbins	393
The Advantages Of A Virtual Private Network For Computer Security.	Sid Sirisukha, David Skelton, Allister McLay	397
E-Tailing - Has it arrived in NZ yet?	David Skelton, Alister McLay	403
Assessment of ethical processes in computing education: Are we clean? How to tell?	Lesley Smith, Samuel Mann	409
A flexible database approach for regional heritage and tourism information management.	Lesley Smith, Samuel Mann, Nell Buissink-Smith	415
Gearing up for Professional Practice: Enhancing Soft Skills for IS Project Students.	Sarah Snell, Catherine Snell-Siddle, Danette Whitehouse	419
Using the UML to Describe Design Patterns .	Diane Strode	423
On-Line Aptitude Test.	Zhong Tang, Kay Fenton	429
Prevalence of online assessment? Causative factors.	Irene Toki, Mark Caukill	435
Information technology, dyslexia, and the disabled learner .	Maree van Praagh	439
Beyond HTML: Creating extensible teaching resources using database and Internet technology.	Michael Verhaart	443
Doing it with Style: Structured Document Creation from Word Processing into HTML.	Nick Wallingford	449
The capstone project - a foundation for work?	Malcolm Wieck	455
Teaching Computing and Provision of IT Support: A Bridge Too Far?	Malcolm Wieck, John McPhee	459
Designing New Computer Laboratories: Fresh Ideas and New Layouts.	Alison Young, Glenn Huggard	463

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.

Poster Papers

Paper	Speakers	Page No.	Pdf
Teaching style/learning styles…is there a connection? .	Bridie Atkins	469
Voice Feedback for Interactive Displays .	Kevin Barclay	470
Rocky Nook Bowls - Tournament Management .	Euan Bichan, Maxine Miller,	471
Providing Opportunities in Computing Education to some Highly Motivated Adults	Barry Brant, Kathiravelu Ganeshan	472
Representing student learning-styles and personality-types with a modified Nightingale Rose .	Chris Burrell, Tom Connolly	473
Capital Press - Order Entry, Job Tracking And Quotation .	Haydn Cain, Ben Wilson, Dipan Patel	474
Information Transfer in Computer Language Learning .	Rob Campbell	475
Choosing for life interactive resource .	Matthew Carter, Matthew Lyons	476
What happens when HCI students escape from Flatland? .	Todd Cochrane	477
The Tablet PC, how well does it fess up with Kay's Dynabook? .	Todd Cochrane	478
HCI Design Patterns in FrontPage: looking at the Common Ground pattern language .	Todd Cochrane, Sandra Smith	479
Xellon - Photograph Management System	Donglei Du, Danxin Zhang, Shengli Yang	480
Underwater hockey system .	Robert Feist, Karl Miller	481
The Theremin and the Computer .	Kathiravelu Ganeshan	482
Extreme Programming - A Success Story .	Kathiravelu Ganeshan, Vicknes Ganeshan	483
FAMILTRACK .	Matthew Hamilton	484
Knowledge Management - SCM and CRM in disguise? .	Cecile Hoods, Trevor Nesbit	485
Future is Wireless .	Samad S. Kolahi	486
Alternative CAD User Interface .	Brook Lawton, Angela Meikle	487
Storing data as XML vs MS-ACCESS in ASP.NET .	Xiaosong Li	488
Automatic Assessment Generator .	Xiaosong Li, Zhong Tang, Jun Li	489
Still got that old PC? .	Tineke Manford	490
Art of Computers - Computers of Art	Samuel Mann, John van Dyk, Peter Brook	491
Complexity: A vital Aspect of Learning Programming .	John McPhee	492
Modelling Low Voltage Power Transmission Networks .	Malcolm McQueen	493
Copy-right or copy-wrong - software licensing .	Shaneel S. Narayan	494
"Serve i.t. right" hospitality training cd-rom .	David Ponting, Luke Quarrie, Georgina Robertson	495
The growth of IT at a Technikon in South Africa .	Christo Potgieter, Nina Evans	496
Towards Innovative IT Service Management? .	Christo Potgieter, Petrie Coetzee	497
IBL - Roles, Responsibilities, Relationships, and Results .	Shiu Ram	498
NSP - Job Tracking System .	Firman Santoso, Shou Zhi Zou, Eakchai Jirawanitcharoen	499
LAN-Designer Demonstration .	Nurul Sarkar, Jason Lian	500
Natural History Tours - Tour Management System .	Oyvind Seljeseth, Martin Andersen, Solveig Kaaberg	501
Data modelling approaches: divergence in practice	Andrew Sewell, Samuel Mann	502
Introducing Students to microware using ANSI C .	Rene Smit	503
Weaving the fabric of IT degrees .	Rene Smit, Samuel Mann	504
Delta Software - Customer Services Support Site Extensions Project	Neil Smith, Marko Jovovic, Mirama Mahuika	505
Information Systems Graduate Profiles: On-line and Alumni Implications .	Irene Toki, Sam Ralston, Danette Whitehouse	506
Identifying tertiary educators' preferred attributes to facilitate technical writing .	Irene Toki, Erzsebet Bekesi	507
Is there enough support for International Students .	George Tongariro	508
Linux Alternative .	Albert van Aardt, Mike Mossom	509
Developing stream based teaching resources utilising increased Internet bandwidth .	Michael Verhaart	510
Developing a Pathway for Information Technology Courses at the Bay of Plenty Polytechnic .	Nick Wallingford, Pam Fleming	511
Geographic Information Systems in NZ .	Linda Way	513