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ISDB Research Lab
Room: G.2.8
2nd Floor, G Block
Head
Annika Hinze
hinze[at]waikato.ac.nz
Room: G.2.26
Department of Computer Science
University of Waikato
Private Bag 3105
Hamilton 3240
New Zealand
tel: +64-7-858-4052
The Information Systems and Databases (ISDB) group at Waikato conducts research in mobile information access, location-based systems and health informatics. It targets application-oriented and fundamental research issues in the areas of event-driven systems and semantic analysis.
Topics:
- Semantic analysis and annotation
- Document provenance
- Augmented memory systems
- Mobile location-based access
We welcome requests concerning cooperations, further projects, student projects and doctor thesis.
Have a look at latest news on our research projects and publications.
News via Facebook feed:
Our paper on Worker-fatigue and its contribution to workplace incidents in New Zealand Forestry has now been published in the Elsevier Journal of Safety Research.
We analysed eight years’ worth of New Zealand forestry incident data. Our results show that 70% of the incidents (70%) caused by some form of worker-failure. Of these causes, we found that 78% showed indications of worker-fatigue. This means that worker fatigue plays a much greater role in Forestry accidents than previously identified. We recommend that research, industry and government put more focus on identifying measures to prevent worker-failure and worker-fatigue.
(A. Hinze, J.L. Konig and J. Bowen, Worker-fatigue contributing to workplace incidents in New Zealand Forestry, Journal of SafetyResearch)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022437521001262?via%3Dihub
Worker-fatigue contributing to workplace incidents in New Zealand Forestry
www.sciencedirect.com
Reports of incidents in dangerous work environments can be analysed to identify common hazards, in turn aiding in the prevention of future accidents. …A big congratulations to Ivy Taia for taking out the title of Best Student Paper for the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences for 2020!
Ivy’s paper was titled For Maumahara Papahou: A mobile augmented reality memory treasure box based on Māori mnemonic aids.
Ivy did the original design and research, as well as implementation of the AR memory app for mobile.
Her goal is to bridge traditional Mäori knowledge and modern technological approaches, while acknowledging and respecting both.
First demo at an online conference. If you thought jet-lag is bad when attending overseas conferences, try presenting and Q&A in the middle of the night.
Best of luck to Qimo Zhang presenting his demo on "Narrative Navigation".
youtu.be/CqqgJtVQoTU
