Roger Eglin

Contextual inquiry: a systemic support for student engagement through reflection

Much research has been published which attests to desire felt by educators to improve the quality of student reflection, and engagement with learning, through processes of assessment. This paper describes how research in Systems Analysis is being transformed and applied to educational practice. Staff considered that methods were needed to stimulate students to reflect and engage in higher orders of learning in order to help them to experience ‘success’ in their assessments. The paper describes the background to a Systems Analysis approach and its specific adaptation for support in student learning in the field of creative technologies.

Audience Perception of Computer Generated Human Facial Behaviour

The animation of Computer Generated (CG) humans has an impact on audience perception in preserving and giving credibility to the experience. However, there are some potential problems with interpreting the different types of Accurate Behaviour in CG humans. An animated human head was created to examine the effect of facial behaviour display (including and excluding factors such as facial movement, head movement and eye rotation) on audience perception (in terms of believability, disturbance and accurate behaviour recognition). The results of the study suggest that some CG human facial behaviour has an effect on the participants perception and response to the three dependent measures. The most significant disturbance was caused by a category of facial movement whilst the inclusion of that facial movement and head movements created most believability. The accuracy of identifying behaviour was also increased by the inclusion of head movements. However, no significant effect was found for eye rotation.