The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) & the Mobile Internet: Opportunities for the Mobile OperatorTHE IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEM (IMS) & THE MOBILE INTERNET: Opportunities for the Mobile Operator

The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a new mobile communications architecture, which enables many new and innovative services, and can extend the possibilities of mobile Internet application development. These mobile Internet applications and the IMS, are considered in terms of the impact that they can have on the critical success factors (CSFs) of mobile operators. The CSFs identified are particular to mobile operators that are competing in a highly saturated (in terms of mobile penetration) marketplace, and that are facing the threat of increasing competition

Improve Engagement with Full Labs and Motivated Students: Interactive labs via low stakes assessment

Poor engagement and attendance is an endemic problem at third level, particularly post covid. Our approach shows how the use of regular in-lab assessment and challenges can dramatically increase student participation and learning. Using three case studies, we demonstrate how we have successfully used this low-stakes assessment approach to improve student outcomes, across a range of modules.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/cddpos/1014/thumbnail.jp

Strengthening the Practices of an Agile Methodology?

An investigation into how the software development process in an agile environment (Extreme Programming) can be aided by intelligent software, leading to the development of a tool that will automate the process of standardising and clarifying source code. The tool will also speed up and aid the testing process, by producing test objects based on the source code, and by providing full test tracking, without having a negative impact on the development process. By making the coding and testing processes more automated, the research aims to evaluate the following hypotheses: 1. That the programmer\u27s productivity can be increased by the use of such a tool 1. That the standardised and clarified source code can reinforce the practices of Collective Code Ownership, Refactoring and Pair Programming 1. That automated testing can reinforce the practices of Code Ownership, Refactoring, Small Releases and Continuous Integration, as stated by Beck (2000)

Computer Science Outreach to Inform Secondary School Students’ Perceptions of Computer Science: Preliminary Findings

This poster describes a longitudinal K-12 outreach programme to promote Computer Science in Ireland, which ran over a three-year period from 2017- 2020. A pilot phase was conducted in the first year from 2017-2018 with 2900 students participating. The implementation phase began in 2018, when 7320 students participated across the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 academic years. The programme consisted of a free onsite school delivery of a two-hour camp that introduced students to a range of Computing topics: addressing computing perceptions, introduction to coding, and exploration of computational thinking. Schools self-selected, and the programme reached a large number of schools with varied socio-economic and gender diversity, along with schools across every county in Ireland. The student ages ranged from third class (7 - 8 years old) in primary school to sixth year in second level (17 - 18 years old). This poster focuses specifically on the research data collected during the implementation phase (N=1211) from secondary school students (12 - 18 years old) not enrolled in the formal Leaving Certificate Computer Science subject. Looking at student perceptions of Computer Science and if the outreach positively impacted those perceptions and built student interest in pursuing further study in Computer Science.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/cddpos/1011/thumbnail.jp