Last Presentation for CP5080!

http://code.google.com/p/honours-3d-paluma/wiki/DownloadsDirectory

I updated that earlier today with the presentations and the papers that I worked on.

Today I presented the following:

Paper Presentation: Virtual Reality - IEEE: Computer Society - Virtual Reality: How Much Immersion is Enough?

Paper Presentation: What are Virtual Environments? - ACM Portal - What are Virtual Environments?

Presentation of Literature Review

Not sure how I've gone, but was a bit... weird presenting three different items at once, and trying to remember everything. The presentation of my lit review was by far the easiest though.

... I have to mention, presentations do feel a bit weird when questions aren't asked at the end. Though I guess it comes down to if a, the audience is interested in the topic, b, were they paying attention, or c, did you explain it enough that they understood everything anyway (and aren't curious for more info)

Ah well. Good learning/presentation experience none-the-less

BU4061: Presentation Questions

Overview of items looked at today during the final seminar for BU4061

Questions asked during biography presentations.

• What is DBA? Like MBA, but higher. Worth 120k and not claimable on HECS
• Autism - High Functioning Autism: Did Temple Grandin have many issues with her disability? Issues of bullying while in school. As an adult, had issues with harassment in workplace, though in academia is respected.
• Conferences? Conferences not common in early career, though in later stages, larger volume of conferences presented, and is also now lecturing.
• Noted as being very observant - how did she make her discoveries? Re: Stressed Animals Could relate to cattle because of autism. Felt there were similarities.
• Grandin: How many publications with other academics? Very few
• Kaplan: At 17 years old, enrolling in university - US, normally 18 years? Unsure
• Conferences? Presentations, not many - teaches at the school. Done a lot of course work.
• By 1st, 2nd and 3rd author - in what sense does that apply? Alphabetical order or something else?

Conclusion of subject:

Paradigms, Disciplines, Tribes, Individuals

• Looking at the concepts, of what they mean and how they work in research
• Methods of data collection
• Methodology - recruiting people, researcher position, form of analysis
• Paradigms - what type of paradigm are you working within

Cultures of Research Beyond University

1. Business Research and the Consulting Culture
2. Government Research and Policy Culture
3. Academic Culture

Business:

• Developing Profitability
• Protect and build a case against regulations and perceived problems and deal with change
• Paradigms: often positivist or post positivist
• Methods: dependent on consultants, surveys, plus archival data
• Developing systems, eg, HR, which are sold and promoted, eg. future business forecasts
• Time and timing - strict timelines
• Payment - variable
• Not open to refutation - limited circulation of reports

Government:

• Assist in development of policy and regulation
• Respond to problems arising in the community
• Paradigms: Post Positivist (can also be interpretative)
• Methods: eclectic, largely review and profiling, surveys
• Development: inter-government referencing, some academic use
• Payment - good generally, reliable
• Time frames - varied, including desirable delay
• Open to refutation - acceptable, public

Clash of worlds

• Topics allocated, not selected
• Answers are generally 'desired' = client satisfaction
• Big occasions of presenting work - presentations big issue

Relevant De-constructed

• Time - when
• Sector - agriculture, manufacturing, service, etc
• Scale - local, regional, state, national
• Focus - hotel, all hotels, all accommodation
• Domain - economic, socio-cultural, environmental, administrative
• Style - generating facts or ideas or new perspectives: emancipactory or functional

Knowledge Management

• Is about 3 or 4 steps in the process about deciding what you are doing
• Knowledge Capture - understanding what people know and aligning research objects with that knowledge
• Knowledge Codification - translating findings into decision rules or systems
• Knowledge Diffusion - sytles of delivery as well as roles of intermediaries

Wicked problems

• Many business problems are wicked problems-complex multi-faceted, difficult to define a clear answer

Academy of Hope

• Critical theory and an emancipatory paradigm turn attention to the possibilities of research and education to change the modes of education and build richer personal and public lives
• When do we know enough? Enduring learning e.g. 'You're ready to graduate when the professor says so'

Subject Summary: Aim and hopefully partial achievement - to make explicit what we assume when undertaking research, to locate our research in a context of types of research to better understand our topic, the research of others and each other.

CP5080/CP5090 Presentation Feedback

Got my feedback for my presentations today, finally. (Paper Presentation: XML Compression Techniques and Paper Presentation: Virtual GIS)

Was good to see the feedback as I wasn't sure how I had been doing.

A few interesting points. Need to address that concern over colloquial expressions.

Hi Angela, here are some comments on your cp5090 presentations so far.

1. very good use of slides, except for an occasional tendency to present a slide that is extracted from a paper with far too much detail. If you need to discuss that much information you will have to find some way to summarize or otherwise digest it within a few slides.

2. generally very good at pacing and keeping your talk on track.

3. You are a bit careless in diction and locution (word choice and manner of speech). Informality is OK but don't slide into purely colloquial expressions.

4. Very good attention to paper's structure and meta data.

Overall grade: D.

Bruce

Public Speaking

Randomly, while I'm finishing off some work...

Just found an interesting topic regarding speaking, or more specifically, how to avoid verbal pauses such as 'um', 'ah', etc...

My habit is 'and that', 'so yeah', 'and whatever'. Trying to improve this before I have to give a seminar.

Without further ado, here's the link: http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-answers-community/how-do-you-stop-from-saying-um-er-ah-and-so-when-youre-talking

Critical Literature Review!

I have a 10 page lit review due in week 13....

Got to narrow down the field of my papers... Not sure if I should just use the papers that I've been looking at for my lit reviews in Bruce's class, or get new ones... Though I would appreciate further papers on GIS and Stereoscopic 3D...

And still need a paper on effects of tourism from Giana, unless I can find one via Google Scholar...

Still alive though, but blog has been kind of dead.

Just a lot of work to do over these next few weeks.

BU4061: Interesting Points

Some interesting points made by Philip in the lecture last week.

"When being a researcher, look at generic stuff as things can be subject to change.

Avoid anticipated regulations, (ie, politians)

E.g. Looking at tourism, two countries/areas going to war, tourism obviously declines

[Post to be updated at later stage]

Speech Writing and Photography

Was just trying to transcribe my speech earlier but battery is out on my livescribe pen and can't seem to find my cradle to charge it again. Got to really figure out where I put that...

I went out earlier and took some pictures of the area that I'm going to do the rough model of, they're 7MP photos so I'm hoping they will be high enough resolution.

On a side note, I was looking at the HX5 at work and really like the camera. 10MP but the lens quality looks fantastic and I really like the idea of intelligent panaroma as well as having in built GPS and compass feature where you can upload images directly into google earth.

Back to the photos... So I think I have a good amount there to do up some plane setup senarios, it's just finding the time to do it.

For this week, I've got my speech to hand in, gotta get my thesis proposal signed off (still), literature review, biography presentation as well as the other items which have begun piling up. So much work...

Thankfully I've only got work on the weekend so I have today free (where I've been working on BU4061) and Wednesday free, so using those days to catch up. Thursday morning to read the assigned paper (though may have to read more earlier as it is 28 pages).

AND when I get a chance... catch up on missed entries for this blog.

Autodesk: 2011

Have I ever mentioned how much I love Autodesk?

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Discipline Analysis

Currently been sitting around finishing off the discipline analysis for presentation tomorrow.

I'm still stuck on this idea of writing an actual speech. Looking at the criteria we do have to hand in notes, so I may have to do a LiveScribe recording of my speech then transcribe them later. The actual notes for what I've used in reference for actually putting together my PowerPoint is easy enough though.

I find that with writing a speech I don't tend to follow them word for word. Rather picking out key words from the speech then talking about those related points... which is where the PowerPoint come in handy as they work as my palm cards.

I have to get around to uploading resources and what not on my google code page as well as I'm really not making use of the sources there. And also get the storage area set up for my thesis work/backups as Ian mentioned in the meeting on Friday.

Won't have a paper presentation for CP5080 this week, but will next week.

Tomorrow got to start with doing the modelling prototype-thing and also gotta finalise/check/sign off the thesis proposal as well. Ideally I would like to throw up some screenshots from the play-around-modelling concept in the proposal so that the reader can actually see what the modelling concept is rather then me trying to describe it in words. One of the ideas/concepts behind the actual project for business/development proposals anyway.

So, back to assignment now.

Comments and Meeting Points

Just a random tid-bit here before I gloss over points from today's meeting.

I actually had no idea that other people were reading this bar myself and supervisor, so thanks to anyone who has been reading this. It may not make much sense to you a lot of the time, as it is an area for me to record thoughts and ideas, but still, thanks for taking the time to read and even comment.

After seeing that comments had been made I went through and checked each of my entries for any other comments and I was surprised to say the least. I'm actually quite happy to see that people have commented, so once again thank you. ^_^

So, now..

Meeting notes:

Key points from meeting

• Keys
• Office Space
• Paluma Trip
• Geotagging
• Google Maps - SketchUp
• Microsoft Photo Synth
• Thesis Proposal
• Modelling Approaches

(didn't have my livescribe pen on me at the time so didn't get everything, if I remember anything I'll add it)

Proposed work:

• Model an area (rough, just using basic polygons and textures) and see how long it takes (e.g., street view or something basic)
• Basic models of trees/bushes
• Build a texture library~!