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‘IMPLICIT CREATION’ – NON-PROGRAMMER CONCEPTUAL MODELS FOR AUTHORING IN INTERACTIVE DIGITAL STORYTELLING
(University of Plymouth, 2012)
Interactive Digital Storytelling (IDS) constitutes a research field that emerged from several areas of art, creation and computer science. It inquires technologies and possible artefacts that allow ‘highly-interactive’ ...
The Impact of British Military Foreign Postings on Accompanying Spouses
(University of Plymouth, 2013)
In this thesis I report an investigation into the psychological, emotional and social impact of British military foreign postings on accompanying spouses. I adopted an ethnographic methodology utilising a four phase mixed ...
Investigating E-commerce Adoption in Small and Medium-sized Tourism Enterprises: A Case of Travel Agents in Egypt
(University of Plymouth, 2012)
SMEs are often described as slow adopters of technology. However, adopting e-commerce is one of many strategies taken by travel agents to re-intermediate themselves in the global travel market against the threat of ...
GROUND<C>: A METAVERSE LEARNING STRATEGY FOR THE CREATIVE FIELDS
(University of Plymouth, 2012)
In this thesis I cover the theoretical framework and the practice based implications of bringing the fundamental principles of a cybernetic art educational strategy, the Groundcourse, which was developed and taught during ...
A study of marine benthic algae along a natural carbon dioxide gradient
(University of Plymouth, 2012-10-19)
Increasing atmospheric CO2 is causing unprecedented changes in seawater chemistry, yet the uncertainty of the ecological response to these projected changes, termed ‘ocean acidification’, remains considerable at present. ...
User-Centric Quality of Service Provisioning in IP Networks
(University of Plymouth, 2012)
The Internet has become the preferred transport medium for almost every type of communication, continuing to grow, both in terms of the number of users and delivered services. Efforts have been made to ensure that time ...
The Development of Vocational Interests and Abilities in Secondary School Aged Children
(University of Plymouth, 2012)
This body of work has focussed on the measurement, structure and stability of vocational interests and abilities in mainstream, mixed-ability secondary school aged children. This set of studies investigated how a large ...
Allotments and alternative food networks: the case of Plymouth, UK
(University of Plymouth, 2013)
Alternative food networks (AFNs) are the focus of an ‘explosive growth’ of research in Europe (Goodman 2004), and the term covers a wide range of activities, from food banks, community gardens, and farmers’ markets, to ...
Extinction and recovery dynamics of Triassic-Jurassic macro-invertebrate communities
(University of Plymouth, 2012)
This work is focused on characterising and evaluating the intensity and selectivity of the marine fauna during the Tr/J mass extinction and recovery of the ecosystem in different localities throughout Pangaea. To address ...
THE PARTNERSHIP APPROACH TO ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: THE CASE OF THE MOOR TREES PARTNERSHIP NETWORK
(University of Plymouth, 2010)
Academic discussion of policy-making and governing indicates a significant shift in the model of governance away from top-down state control to the bottom-up approach of engaging non-state actors (Goodwin and Painter, 1996; ...