UC Research Centres: Recent submissions
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To The RescEU? Disaster Response As A Driver For European Integration
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The EU’s 2018 decision to strengthen its civil protection mechanism has been a long time in the making. Since the original Council resolution of 1987, the Union has incrementally expanded its role in the field of ... -
Gait change in tongue movement
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)During locomotion, humans switch gaits from walking to running, and horses from walking to trotting to cantering to galloping, as they increase their movement rate. It is unknown whether gait change leading to a wider ... -
A comparison of surface and motion user-defined gestures for mobile augmented reality.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Augmented Reality (AR) technology permits interaction between the virtual and physical worlds. Recent advancements in mobile devices allow for a better mobile AR experience, and in turn, improving user adoption rate and ... -
Ngāti Pārau MACA historical report
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ASEM’s First Two Decades: A Role Discovered
(Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2019)This article examines the first two decades of the transregional Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM) from its inception with the Bangkok Summit of 1996. Examining instances of region building and the socialisation of states, it ... -
Sharing Manipulated Heart Rate Feedback in Collaborative Virtual Environments
(2019)We have explored the effects of sharing manipulated heart rate feedback in collaborative virtual environments. In our study, we created two types of different virtual environments (active and passive) with different ... -
Vegetation mapping for the protection of old-growth spinifex and pīngao dunes on the uplifted Marlborough coast
(2021)This report contributes to a collaborative project between the Marlborough District Council (MDC) and University of Canterbury (UC) which aims to help protect and promote the recovery of native dune systems on the Marlborough ... -
Why New Zealand is more vulnerable to a new COVID-19 outbreak than ever before
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Characteristics of air puffs produced in English 'pa': Experiments and simulations
(Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2009)Three dimensional large eddy simulations, microphone "pop" measurements, and high-speed videos of the airflow and lip opening associated with the syllable "pa" are presented. In the simulations, the mouth is represented ... -
Learning effects in multimodal perception with real and simulated faces
(Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 2019)We have all learned to associate real voices with animated faces since childhood. Researchers use this association, employing virtual faces in audiovisual speech perception tasks. However, we do not know if perceivers ... -
Aero-tactile integration in fricatives: Converting audio to air flow information for speech perception enhancement
(ISCA, 2014)We follow up on research demonstrating that aero-tactile information can enhance or interfere with accurate auditory perception among uninformed and untrained perceivers [1, 2, 3]. We computationally extract aperiodic ... -
Biomechanical modeling of English /r/ variants
(Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2012)This study reports an investigation of the well-known context-dependent variation in English /r/ using a biomechanical tongue-jaw-hyoid model. The simulation results show that preferred /r/ variants require less volume ... -
Vowel identity conditions the time course of tone recognition
(2013)Using eye-tracking in a visual world paradigm, we sought converging evidence for the time course of Mandarin Chinese tone recognition as predicted by the availability of information in f0 and past results from a ... -
Duration of Blackfoot /s/: A comparison of assibilant, affricate, singleton, geminate and syllabic /s/ in Blackfoot
(2006)A study comparing the duration of assibilant, affricate, singleton, geminate and syllabic /s/ from the citation speech of one speaker demonstrated significant differences in the duration of geminate /s/ (µ = 300 ms), ... -
Aero-tactile integration in Mandarin
(Australian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 2019)Previous research has shown that audio-aligned air puffs applied to the skin can enhance the perception of speech audio [12]. In this study, we applied dynamically varying air flow during two-way forced-choice ... -
Reducing health inequity for Māori people in New Zealand
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The temporal window of audio-tactile integration in speech perception
(Acoustical Society of America (ASA), 2010)Asynchronous cross-modal information is integrated asymmetrically in audio-visual perception. To test whether this asymmetry generalizes across modalities, auditory (aspirated "pa" and unaspirated "ba" stops) and tactile ... -
In which population groups are food and physical activity environments related to obesity?
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Associations between food environment typologies and body mass index: Evidence from Yorkshire, England
(Elsevier BV, 2019)International research linking food outlets and body mass index (BMI) is largely cross-sectional, yielding inconsistent findings. However, addressing the exposure of food outlets is increasingly considered as an important ...