title: Resilience by design: Improving hospital functionality following earthquake

authors: Boston, Megan

abstract: Earthquakes can cause extensive damage to the built environment and can led to injury of people in the affected area. It is critical that hospitals continue to remain functional following an earthquake in order to provide necessary treatment of the injured and ongoing treatment of those already in the hospital. However, current design codes aim for life safety goals and do not guarantee that buildings will remain operational following a major earthquake. This poster examines the operability and functionality of a hospital following a major earthquake by extending the performance-based earthquake design framework to a resilience-based design framework that considers the operability and functionality of hospital systems in addition to the performance of the building. Structural and non-structural damage is linked to specific hospital services through a fault tree analysis to estimate operability of individual hospital services and the overall functionality of the hospital as a whole. Hospital functionality can be plotted as a resilience curve to visualize the restoration of hospital services over time.

text: Resilience by design: Improving hospital functionality following earthquake Earthquakes can cause extensive damage to the built environment and can led to injury of people in the affected area. It is critical that hospitals continue to remain functional following an earthquake in order to provide necessary treatment of the injured and ongoing treatment of those already in the hospital. However, current design codes aim for life safety goals and do not guarantee that buildings will remain operational following a major earthquake. This poster examines the operability and functionality of a hospital following a major earthquake by extending the performance-based earthquake design framework to a resilience-based design framework that considers the operability and functionality of hospital systems in addition to the performance of the building. Structural and non-structural damage is linked to specific hospital services through a fault tree analysis to estimate operability of individual hospital services and the overall functionality of the hospital as a whole. Hospital functionality can be plotted as a resilience curve to visualize the restoration of hospital services over time.

year: 2018

title: Editor's note - Lakeswater Quality society 2017 Symposium proceedings

authors: Green, Ann

abstract: Editor's note

text: Editor's note - Lakeswater Quality society 2017 Symposium proceedings Editor's note

year: 2017

title: An AR memory app based on Māori mnemonic aids

authors: Taia, Ivy

subjects: computer science

abstract: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a world-wide “silent epidemic” causing a variety of memory issues for those affected. Although several software approaches aim to aid memory recollection, they are inadequate for many TBI survivors and none address aspects of cultural awareness in New Zealand. We explored design concepts of traditional Māori cultural tools / techniques and how they helped Māori people recall past information. This paper describes our research and development of Maumahara Papahou, a mobile app that uses Augmented Reality features to create a digital memory treasure box based on the concepts of Māori mnemonic aids.

text: An AR memory app based on Māori mnemonic aids Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a world-wide “silent epidemic” causing a variety of memory issues for those affected. Although several software approaches aim to aid memory recollection, they are inadequate for many TBI survivors and none address aspects of cultural awareness in New Zealand. We explored design concepts of traditional Māori cultural tools / techniques and how they helped Māori people recall past information. This paper describes our research and development of Maumahara Papahou, a mobile app that uses Augmented Reality features to create a digital memory treasure box based on the concepts of Māori mnemonic aids.

year: 2018