2004 Proceedings
The 17th Annual
Conference 2004
Christchurch, New Zealand.
Papers from the Proceedings of the 17th NACCQ 2004 Edited by Samuel Mann and Tony Clear
Prologue
| Paper | Speakers | Page No. | |
| Objectives and Object-Oriented Programming | Raymond Lister | 13 | |
| Poverty Alleviation in Peru: Hi-tech in the Remote Andes | Alison Young, Logan Muller | 20 | |
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| An IT Support Capstone: Just Another Brick in the Wall | Graham Bidois, Tony Clear, Anthony Gates, Alison Talbot | 23 | |
| Professionally speaking: Reflecting on a professionalism-first approach (Highly Commended) | Deirdre Billings, Carolyn Nodder, Alison Young | 31 | |
| The Evolving Project: Incorporating SoDIS | Noel Bridgeman, Linda Way | 39 | |
| Setting up a Help Desk; Students learning from experience | Linda Carr, Barbara Chamberlain | 45 | |
| “Getting it write”: the relationship between writing and computer skills (Highly Commended) |
Cindy Davies | 53 | |
| Teaching, Testing and Evaluating Critical Reflection: A Personal Experience | Kay Fielden | 59 | |
| Composing Music Using Genetic Algorithms (Highly Commended Software) | Kathiravelu Ganeshan, Jonathan Pickard | 67 | |
| Managing Software Requirements Risks with Software Development Impact Statements (Highly Commended in Citrus Award for Collaboration) | Don Gotterbarn, Tony Clear , Choon-Tuck Kwan | 71 | |
| Expressing Business Rules using Object Role Modelling | Adrian Hargreaves | 79 | |
| Land of the Long Wi-Fi Cloud? IEEE 802.11b Deployment in New Zealand | Bryan Houliston | 87 | |
| Teaching Novices Programming with Core Language and Dynamic Visualisation | Minjie Hu | 95 | |
| Development of a custom software regression-testing tool: Ensuring a robust system for the management of electricity energy market delivery….. (Citrus Award for Collaboration) |
Tim D. Hunt, Peter Ensor | 105 | |
| Setting up an ASP.NET Development Environment for a Classroom Lab on Campus Networks | Xiaosong Li, Henry Ren He | 113 | |
| Role of the development methodology and prototyping within capstone projects (Award for Best Full Paper and Alison Young Cup) |
Samuel Mann, Lesley Smith | 119 | |
| The impact of the analyst-user cognitive gap on an information system’s development life cycles: an empirical study | Michael Mullany | 129 | |
| Is there a place for academic theory in the real world? | Diane Norman, David Scadden | 135 | |
| Justice in the Classroom: Peer Assessment of Contributions in Group Projects (Highly Commended) |
Dale Parsons | 145 | |
| Skills, capabilities and change: are we keeping up with progress? | Krassie Petrova, Gwyn Claxton | 153 | |
| Evidence that use of the ITIL framework is effective | B.C. Potgieter, J.H. Botha, C. Lew | 161 | |
| Decoding Programming Concepts in EAL and EFL Students: Is there a difference? | Christine Prasad, Kathryn Sanders, John McTaggart | 169 | |
| Lessons to be learnt from students software estimation exercises | Emma Sharkey, John Paynter | 175 | |
| Projecting Projects: Choosing Software Engineering Projects | Lesley Smith, Samuel Mann | 183 | |
| TE KOROWAI HOU (Highly Commended) | Jenni Tupu, Julia Ngatuere, Alison Young | 191 | |
| Paper | Speakers | Page No. | |
| To use or not to use: Investigating web methodologies | Frina Albertyn | 201 | |
| NACCQ modules in Schools? | Michael Andrews | 205 | |
| Developing a high performance Linux cluster at low cost | Gary Benner, Karam Khokra, John Dunlop, Linda Fraser, Deon Woods | 209 | |
| Free computing courses in NZ: What do users and institutions say | Trish Brimblecombe | 213 | |
| ICT response to elderly baby boomers | Peter Brook | 217 | |
| Artificial Intelligence as a Research Tool: (Let’s not go around in circles) (Trinty software highly commended software) | Jim Cater | 221 | |
| Commercial Viability of ‘Off-Peak’ Distributed Computing at a Tertiary Institution – a Progress Report | Mark Caukill | 225 | |
| The development lab experience: dancing with wolves | Sue Chard, Nick Wempe | 231 | |
| Pictures that change themselves: graphics programming languages to facilitate GUI building | Todd Cochrane, Paul Lyons | 235 | |
| Consultancy Opportunities: Answering a plea for help from a Public Library | Stephen Corich, Allister McLay, David Skelton | 239 | |
| Evaluating block mode delivery as a mechanism for integrating industry related courses into tertiary study | Stephen Corich, Allister McLay, John Jamieson | 243 | |
| The case for a national degree: if not why not and what next? | Stephen Corich, Trevor Nesbit | 247 | |
| A Virtual Solution to a Real Problem: VMware in the Classroom | Eddie Correia, Ricky Watson | 251 | |
| Conceptual Design and Physical Development of database courses | Simon Dacey | 255 | |
| Reaching for the moon: a technique for introducing complex methods at Levels 5 and 6 | Irene Davey, Don Gotterbarn | 259 | |
| Implementing Relationship Constraints in OO Programming Languages | Andrew Eales, Rhys Owen | 265 | |
| Where have all the flowers gone? | Bob Gibbons, Alison Hunter | 269 | |
| Student Evaluations; fact or fiction | Owen Giles, Robyn Pascoe | 273 | |
| BRACE Yourself: CS Education Research Is Coming | Patricia Haden, Sally Fincher, Marian Petre | 277 | |
| Easy and Effective Streaming for Introductory Programming Courses | Patricia Haden, Joy Gasson | 281 | |
| Real World Flight Simulation Rendering Technologies | William Harvey | 285 | |
| Encouraging women to reconsider their choice of computer education course | Marie Hutchinson, Kay Weaver | 289 | |
| Knightsmove (Award for Best Concise Paper) | Russell Jordan, Samuel Mann | 293 | |
| XML in action: A data driven web site with XML | Michel Jouvernaux | 297 | |
| What do Examiners Look for in Dissertations and Theses? | Donald Joyce | 303 | |
| Postgraduate Programmes for Professionals | Donald Joyce | 307 | |
| Ako Ako: A Progress report on a Peer-Mentoring Pilot Programme (Highly Commended) |
Chrissy Joyce-Erueti, Rhona Poutu-Shaw, Khurshid Mitchell | 311 | |
| The Joy of X: The design of an XML system | Dave Kennedy | 315 | |
| Connecting Community-based Providers Through a Business Registry | Donald Koh, Andy Williamson, Iain Morrison | 321 | |
| XLST | Mike Lance | 325 | |
| Teaching with a Unit Testing Framework | Mike Lance | 329 | |
| Use of Pen-Based Computers in Health Care (Highly Commended) | Luke Lau, Donald Joyce , Hira Sathu | 333 | |
| Wireless Network Security | Chih-Ta Lin, Hira Sathu, Donald Joyce | 337 | |
| Critical Success Factors for Online Auction Web Sites | Orson Lin, Donald Joyce, | 341 | |
| Behaviour Objects: Taking the Feel out of Look and Feel | Mike Lopez | 345 | |
| The FactBase™: Robust and Secure Data Storage for Distributed and Disconnected Systems | Mike Lopez | 349 | |
| NACCQ Systems Curricula Changes in the Systems Analysis and Design field | Gerard Lovell | 353 | |
| Dynamic visualisations as storytelling | Samuel Mann, Lorna Luo, Nell Buisink-Smith | 357 | |
| The impact of effective it systems management on end-user productivity: IT academics have their say | Chris McCarthy, Trevor Nesbit | 365 | |
| Encouraging Student Retention: a study of student retention practices | Chris McCarthy | 371 | |
| Where are they now? Making the Transition – Three Years On. | Chris McCarthy | 375 | |
| What are we Modeling when we Model Knowledge? | Steve McKinlay | 381 | |
| Graduate Diploma: An Effective Route into a Computing Career? | Theresa McLennan | 385 | |
| Developing a framework for an information security paper | Shaneel S. Narayan, Sheetal Narayan | 389 | |
| Serving up server side programming | Trevor Nesbit, Richard Raizis | 393 | |
| NESB Students – COPing with BICT | Trevor Nesbit, Sue Isitt | 397 | |
| An experiment worth repeating: the convergence of pedagogy and IT | Diane Norman, David Scadden | 401 | |
| JavaScript Hit Counters | Jan Pajak | 405 | |
| Variety is the Spice of Life: Creating and Retaining Enthusiasm in Our Students | Dimitri Panayi, Xiaosong Li, Alison Young, | 409 | |
| Presenting Dynamic Customised Views of Objects | John Peppiatt | 413 | |
| The use of computer aided teaching for problem solving in SQL. | John Peppiatt | 417 | |
| Mobile learning using SMS: a mobile business application (Highly Commended) | Krassie Petrova | 421 | |
| The Carich Affair: Picking up the “pieces” (students) and moving on | Christo Potgieter, Garry Roberton, Chris McCarthy, Catherine Jull | 427 | |
| Creating Intriguing Synergies with Course Offerings: Integrating industry qualifications – An ITP perspective | Garry Roberton, Ed Corbett | 431 | |
| VisCis: Visual Studio “Code in Strings” (Highly Commended Software) |
Paul Roper | 435 | |
| Building Synthetic Voice: A Journey from the Known Voices to a Kiwi Voice | Hira Sathu, Ranjana Shukla, Jun Li | 439 | |
| Computer Human Interaction Education in New Zealand Universities | Emma Sharkey, John Paynter | 445 | |
| Does the sum of the parts equal the whole? | Errol Thompson | 449 | |
| Open Source Software development as a Complex Adaptive System: Survival of the fittest? | Albert van Aardt | 455 | |
| Resolving Oracle 8i problems with changes in hardware | George Varghese | 461 | |
| Learning Object Repositories: How useful are they? | Michael Verhaart | 465 | |
| An Analysis of Enrolment Motivations for IT Students | Nick Wallingford | 471 | |
| Coping with Change: Future Proofing Networking Labs | Amy Wilson, Stefan Stasiewicz | 475 | |
| Paper | Speakers | Page No. | |
| An Overview of Alternative Approaches for Managing Information Security | Mehdi Asgarkhani | 480 | |
| Welcome to the Real World – RAD in the Classroom | Bridie Atkins | 481 | |
| Audio Resources for On-Site Course: Interesting Idea, Shame it didn’t work. | David Bremer | 482 | |
| Specialist Labs with Removable Hard Drives (Award for Best Poster) | David Bremer | 483 | |
| Johnny’s Adventures (Highly Commended Student Poster, Highly Commended Software) |
Chris Churcher, Dean Johnstone, Patricia Haden, Samuel Mann | 484  |
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| Comparing Computed Persistence of Vision on a Linux based cluster | Todd Cochrane, Paul Bryant | 485 | |
| Academic Qualification & Industry Certification: Integrating education with practice | Steve Cosgrove | 486 | |
| PXE – Magical little creature who will start your computers | Steve Cosgrove, Steve Ofsoski | 487 | |
| Client Relationships – A Proven Approach | Rebecca Cumberlege, Jaimie Green, Tony Clear | 488 |
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| STUDENT ATTENDANCE: Finding the Facts | Shirley Elliot, Tineke Manford | 489 | |
| WORDO…. a fun way of learning for Computing Students | Diane Ford Campbell | 490 | |
| Beyond the listbox: the use of very rapid physical prototyping in software engineering | Boudewyn Erkens, Samuel Mann | 491 | |
| Fish ‘n clicks (Highly Commended Student Poster) |
Ann-Marie Fox, Lilieta Takau, Shaoqin Yuan, Patricia Haden, Samuel Mann | 492 |
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| Programming Languages in Tertiary Institutions and Industry Needs | Dmitry Gakhovich, Noel Bridgeman | 493 |
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| Investigation into the utilisation of mobile or handheld devices in a forecourt environment | Mike Gannaway, Markku Kesala, Bridie Atkins | 494 |
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| Aligning our first year maths course to better meet student needs | Joy Gasson | 495 | |
| RemotePoint Management Interface and RemotePointSVR | Tyron Harford, Nick Wallingford | 496 | |
| Fuzzy Clips: a Rule Based Teaching Tool | John Hetherington | 497 | |
| MANET Performance in the Real World | Bryan Houliston | 498 | |
| New Zealand’s Wi-Fi Cloud: Recent Survey Results | Bryan Houliston, Nurul I. Sarkar | 499 | |
| Patient management system project | Susan Jenkins, Erzsebet Bekesi, Bridie Atkins | 500 |
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| Fusebox for reuse and ease of maintenance in a large web application | Wayne Gray, Satoko Mowbray, Tony Clear | 501 |
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| Soft Skills or Soft Option?: “Raising the bar” in the Helpdesk paper | Kim Hagen | 502 | |
| Motivating Adults to Study: How effective is computer based training? | Lyn Hart | 503 | |
| Plagiarism: Meeting New Challenges | Donald Joyce | 504 | |
| Incentives to Increase Class Participation at Postgraduate Level | Donald Joyce, Becky Blackshaw, Chris Manford | 505 | |
| Does the JACIT Still Fit? | Donald Joyce | 506 | |
| Electronic Supervision of Research Students | Donald Joyce | 507 | |
| Using simulation role plays to teach programming concepts for absolute beginners | Don Kannangara | 508 | |
| Identifying the indicators to success for students in computer-based business courses | Vivianne Mail, Luca Clark | 509 | |
| Attitudes and Activities of Students towards Internet and Information Security | Shaneel S. Narayan | 510 | |
| Technology Teaching in Classrooms with Students with Diverse Backgrounds | Sheetal Narayan | 511 | |
| Investigation and implementation of backup solutions for LTSA | Jenny O’Brien, Sam Ralston, Bridie Atkins, | 512 |
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| School Connect (Highly commended Student Poster) |
Ruurd Overhoff, Hendry Lees, Sagheer Ahmed, Lesley Smith, Samuel Mann | 513 |
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| Working with industry on IT Performance Management | Christo Potgieter | 514 | |
| What can we learn from a LEAGUE conference in the USA? | Christo Potgieter | 515 | |
| Publish online in BACIT! | Krassie Petrova, Michael Verhaart | 516 | |
| Surveying the use of ICT in Higher Education in the USA | Christo Potgieter | 517 | |
| Data and Databases Course Results – Semester 1 and Semester 2 vs Summer School | Shiu Ram | 518 | |
| icensing database project | Dennis Richards, Irene Toki, Bridie Atkins | 519 |
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| Night and Day: Different expectations by students – a Preliminary study | Ray Scott | 520 | |
| How a bunch of four can become a successful self managed team in four weeks | Ljudmila Simeonov | 521 | |
| Applying Learning Management Systems in classroom based assessment | Dan Savanovic 522 | 522 | |
| New Dimensions to On-line Presentations | Ranjana Shukla, Hira Sathu, Jun Li | 523 | |
| Experimenting with E-Learning Guinea Pigs. | David Skelton | 524 | |
| Research Proposal: Developing systems for the remote control of an Airship | Rene Smit, Samuel Mann | 525 | |
| Social Engineering | Lesley Smith | 526 | |
| Museums and IT | Lesley Smith, Samuel Mann | 527 | |
| We want more women! Strategies for success | Sarah Snell, Catherine Snell-Siddle, Danette Whitehouse | 528 | |
| Trust in e-commerce: A giant leap of ‘legal’ faith | Catherine Snell-Siddle, Nicky Gardner, Craig Van Slyke | 529 | |
| Supporting a Research Culture with Blackboard | Diane Strode, Pippa Coard | 530 | |
| An Investigation into Adding Intelligence to Web based Educational Systems | Zhong Tang, Alison Young | 531 | |
| Involving local students with local business: Network documentation. | Irene Toki, Sam Ralston | 532 | |
| “Sorry about this, I can’t draw” – The Role of Design in Computing Education | Rachel Trounson, Samuel Mann | 533 | |
| Robotic Theremin Player | Frank van der Hulst | 534 | |
| Skills management project | John Van Duin, Bridie Atkins | 535 |
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| First Week Jitters | Maree van Praagh | 536 | |
| Audio Files for Te Reo Ataahua – Basic Te Reo Maori (Highly commended poster) |
Nick Wallingford, Pam Fleming | 537 | |
| Event Layout Design System (Award for Student Poster, Award for Software Development) | David Wade, Lyndsay Roger, Andrew Sewell, Samuel Mann | 538 |
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| Investigating and Teaching Research | Linda Way | 539 | |
| Computers facing the wrong way: New labs one year on. (Highly Commended Poster) |
Alison Young, Samuel Mann | 540 | |