NZ researchers from the fields of education, agriculture, and SIP and network security join our impressive line up of presenters at APAN26.

Full line up of New Zealand presenters at APAN26

eCulture

Are we there yet? Crafting a Research Agenda to Understand the Potential of ICT-Enabled Learning: the Marvin Case Study - Annick Janson

Annick and her team of collaborators are developing a research agenda to pilot the educational uses of Marvin, an Avatar-based eLearning application. Marvin allows for the rapid creation of culturally specific and multi-lingual resources in communities, by communities, and for communities, in real time. After successful implementation within social contexts, Marvin is now being distributed to education systems globally.

Inquiry by KAREN:  How can a scientist participate in running a scientific inquiry in schools using a high speed network? - Andrew Dunningham

The presentation will introduce Scion's Science for Life and Forests of Life programmes, inquiry based science programmes for schools. Andrew will explain how they intend to investigate and modify the methods, pedagogy and classroom practice developed in Science for Life to allow for effective engagement of students with scientists using KAREN.

Agriculture

Assembling the sheep genome via KAREN - John McEwan

John will present on the current progress and future directions for the International Sheep Genomics Consortium's sheep gene mapping programme. This programme will develop public genomic resources that will help researchers find genes associated with production, quality and disease traits in sheep. Raw sequence and results are stored on a central database at AgResearch Invermay (https://isgcdata.agresearch.co.nz/) and transferred between collaborators via KAREN.

SIP and network security

Advanced Flooding attack on a SIP Server - Malcolm Shore and Xianglin Deng

In this paper Malcolm and Xianglin demonstrate how such firewalls can be defeated and a SIP flooding attack achieved, and then describe a firewall mechanism to counter this form of attack.  A further improvement involving enhancements to the SIP server is also described and test results detailed.  This work has involved use of the innovative JAIN SLEE environment to develop an enhanced SIP Server, and the advantages of this environment are discussed.