Funded Research
Understanding Digital Resilience amongst People Most at Risk of Digital Exclusion.
The purpose of this research was to examine the ‘stickiness’ of selected digital inclusion initiatives, including Skinny Jump, Equitable Digital Access for Students (EDAS) and Stepping UP. We are interested in understanding longer term impacts of short-term digital inclusion interventions. Online surveys were sent to over 8000 individuals who signed up for Skinny Jump in 2020 and 800 participants in Stepping UP classes. In addition, over 30 interviews were carried out with individual participants. Covid-19 lockdowns prevented the
planned focus groups with teachers from schools with students in the MOE-supported EDAS programme.
Final Report: https://internetnz.nz/assets/Archives/DI000052020_21-DIAA-final-report.pdf
PhD Research projects
Nhung Le
Chamara Kuruppu Arachchige
INFO 580 Research Projects
Other Research
Investigators: Allan Sylvester, Rebecca Mines, Rodreck David
Digital twins have been used in manufacturing to describe, predict, and prescribe responses to complex problems. The digital twin is a constellation of technologies that mirror physical objects in the virtual world, including what has happened, is happening and could or should happen in the future for the mirrored object. What is common in previous conceptualizations of digital twins is that there is a physical boundary to the extent that digital twins can mirror real objects (sometimes including the objects’ environments). We propose a conceptualization of digital twins in the educational service environment.
Investigators: Diane Velasquez, Jennifer Campbell-Meier
Research evaluating public library websites, available online sources, and whether library staff were available to respond to users’ questions and concerns regarding the website. Descriptive statistics are used to report the results. Protocol criteria used for longitudinal research.
Digital cultural sustainability
Investigators: Anne Goulding, Jennifer Campbell-Meier, Allan Sylvester
Research exploring issues relating to the impact of digital technologies on cultural sustainability.
Agency Article Australia Canada Conference Paper DIAA Digital Accessibility Digital Cultural Sustainability Digital Equity Digital Experiences Digital Inclusion Digital Inclusion Policy Digital Literacy Digital Twins Education Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition Government Policy Health & Wellbeing Indigenous Inclusion Indigenous peoples INFO580 Literature review Migrants Multilingual PIM Older Adults Online learning Online teaching Open data Open data affordances Open government data Personal Information Management PIM Practices Poster Public Libraries sensemaking Skinny Jump Thesis United States Virtual Reality Web Evaluation Websites
- “It’s enriched my life”. Agency in the digital world: stories of empowerment and well-being
- Measuring the Online Student Experience: A Sensemaking Exercise
- “Words Are not just Words; They Carry Experiences Within Them”: Navigating Personal Information Management in Multilingual Contexts
- Exploring Open Data Affordances for Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition
- Digital Equity Evolution in Healthcare