Australians have experienced repetitive exposure to climate change adversity (either in-person or through televised from media and internet sources). As these events become more prevalent severe, developing, implementing strategies enhance emotional resilience at individual, community, government levels is beneficial. This literature review examines one way of addressing this issue: enhancement...

According to the World Health Organization, health challenges from climate change are many and varied including: Malnutrition due lack of quality food access. Mental in addition severe socioeconomic challenges, through loss homes, jobs needed social connections extreme events. Acute illness risk water-borne diseases associated with access clean water. The increased vector-borne warmer temperatu...

The evident and unresolved health disparity between Aboriginal and other Australians is testament to a history of systematic disenfranchisement. Stigma, lack of appropriate services and the expense of delivering services in remote settings make it impossible to adequately address mental health needs, including suicide, solely using a mainstream medical approach. Nor do mainstream approaches acc...

Slow Technology is an opportunity to create reflective, mesmerizing and tangible experiences of temporality in relation to human perspectives and situated experiences. Hallnas and Redstrom [1] proposed the concepts of ‘reflective’ and ‘time’ technology as part of their design philosophy of slowness; this paper focuses on these concepts in reference to a specific time based artwork that explores...

Plagiarism in programming courses is a pervasive and frustrating problem that undermines the educational process. Defining plagiarism is difficult because of the fuzzy boundary between allowable peer-peer collaboration and plagiarism. Pursuing suspected plagiarism has attendant emotional and legal risks to the student and teacher, with the teacher bearing the burden of proof. In this paper we p...

Plagiarism in programming courses is a pervasive and frustrating problem that undermines the educational process. Often plagiarism falls in the gray area separating profitable peer-peer collaboration, excessive dependence on others, and outright cheating. Unless the evidence is compelling, pursuing suspected plagiarism is generally not worth the emotional and legal risks to student and teacher ...

Driven by a competitive business climate, handset user interface design is receiving a great deal of study and attention. Technology advances have turned the mobile phone into the ultimate portable tool for information, communications, productivity, and entertainment. Designing a user interface (UI) that can handle these capabilities—and still remain useful, usable, and uncomplicated—is the cha...