Publications
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- Ahmed, S., Parsons, D., & Mentis, M. (in press). Scaffolding in Mobile Science Enquiry-based Learning Using Ontologies. e-Education and e-Learning.
- Ahmed, S., Parsons. D., & Mentis, M. (accepted). An Ontology Supported Abductive Mobile Enquiry Based Learning Application, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2012), Rome, Italy, July 4-6 2012.
- Parsons, D., & Lange, M. (in press). Test driven decomposition of legacy systems into services, in X. Wang and N. Ali (Eds.) Agile and Lean Service-Oriented Development: Foundations, Theory and Practice, Hershey, PA: IGI-Global.
- Mathrani, A., & Parsons, D. (in press). Managing meta-learning in offshore software vendor environments, Journal of Management Development, 31(6).
- Parsons, D., Petrova, K., & Ryu, H. (2012) Mobile Gaming - A Serious Business! Proceedings of 7th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile & Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE 2012), Takamatsu, Japan, March 27-30 2012.
- Parsons, D. (2012). Foundational Java: Key Elements and Practical Programming, London: Springer.
- Parsons, D. (Ed.) (2012). Refining Current Practices in Mobile and Blended Learning: New Applications, Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
- Parsons, D., & Stockdale, R. (2012). A Virtual World Workshop Environment for Learning Agile Software Development Techniques. International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments, 3(1), 37-54.
- Ryu, H., & Parsons, D. (2012). Risky Business or Sharing the Load? - Social Flow in Collaborative Mobile Learning, Computers & Education 58, 707-720.
- Parsons, D., Lal, R., & Lange, M. (2011.) Test Driven Development: Advancing Knowledge by Conjecture and Confirmation, Future Internet 3(4), 281-297.
- Parsons, D. (2011.) An Ontology of Agile Aspect Oriented Software Development, Research Letters in the Information and Mathematical Sciences, 15(1), 1-11.
- Hearns, M., Diener, S., Honey, M., Cockeram, J., Parsons, D. et al. (2011). He ara hou ka tū mai: NZ institutions of higher learning unpacking demands and facilitating change. Proceedings of ASCILITE 2011, Hobart, Australia, 4-7 December 2011.
- Ahmed, S., & Parsons. D. (2011). ThinknLearn: An Ontology-Driven Mobile Web Application For Science Enquiry Based Learning. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, 21-24 November, 2011, Sydney, Australia. 255-260
- Parsons. D., Petrova, K., & Ryu, H. (2011). Designing Mobile Games for Engagement and Learning. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications, 21-24 November, 2011, Sydney, Australia. 261-266.
- Puja, J., & Parsons, D. (2011). A Location-Based Mobile Game for Business Education. Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 6-8 July, 2011, Athens, Georgia, USA, (pp. 141-144).
- Ahmed, S., & Parsons, D. (2011). COMET: Context Ontology For Mobile Education Technology, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, New Zealand, 28 June - 2 July 2011. LNAI 6738: Springer (pp. 414-416).
- Parsons, D. (Ed.) (2011). Combining E-Learning and M-Learning: New Applications of Blended Educational Resources, Hershey, PA: IGI-Global.
- Parsons, D., & Stockdale, R. (2010.) Cloud as Context: Virtual World Learning with Open Wonderland. Proceedings of 9th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2010), Valetta, Malta, 19-22 October 2010, 123-130
- Ryu, H., Cui, J., & Parsons, D. (2010). Raising the Bar of Challenge with Collaboration: Social Flow in Mobile Learning. Proceedings of 9th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2010), Valetta, Malta, 19-22 October 2010, (pp. 240-247).
- Parsons, D. (2010). The Zen of Mobile Learning: Turning the Eye Inward (Review of 'Researching Mobile Learning: Frameworks, tools and research design' by Vavoula et al., Peter Lang 2009) International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2(2), 50-57.
- Ahmed, S., Parsons, D., & Ryu, H. (2010). Supporting Adaptive Learning Interactions with Ontologies. Proceedings of 11th Annual ACM SIGCHI NZ Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, 8-9 July 2010, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Park, J., Parsons, D., & Ryu, H. (2010). To Flow and Not to Freeze: Applying Flow Experience to Mobile Learning. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (special issue on Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies for Learning), 3(1), 56-67
- Gravell, A., & Parsons, D. (2010). Dynamic Web Application Development using ASP.NET, London: Cengage Learning
- Ahmed, S., Parsons, D., & Ryu, H. (2010). Beyond Learning Objects - Dynamic adaptation in learning scenarios for lifelong learners, IEEE Learning Technology Newsletter, 12(1), January 2010, 49-51
- Parsons, D. (2009). Greentree Mobile: An Analysis. Commercial white paper
- Parsons, D., & Stockdale, R. (2009). Agile in Wonderland: implementing a virtual world workshop activity, Proceedings of 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne, Australia, 2-4 December 2009.
- Parsons, D. (2009.) Adventures in the Mobile Learning Toolbox. Proceedings of 8th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2009), Orlando. Florida, 26-30 October 2009.
- Mathrani. A, Parsons, D., & Stockdale, R. (2009). Workgroup Structures in Offshore Software Development Projects: A Vendor Case Study. Proceedings of Thirteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 1-4 September 2009
- Ryu, H., Parsons, D., Li, J., Sheng, N., & Javed Y. (2009). New wine in new bottles: applying flow experience to mobile learning. Proceedings of IADIS Mobile Learning Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 25-8 February 2009.
- Li, L., Ryu, H., & Parsons, D. (2009). The influence of spatial working memory on mobile learning content design. Proceedings of IADIS Mobile Learning Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 25-8 February 2009.
- Parsons, D. (2009). IT Education and IT Industry in New Zealand, Paper presented at 8th International Conference on Applications and Principles in Information Science, Okinawa, Japan, 18-21 January 2009.
- Parsons, D. (2009). Mobile Portal Technologies and Business Models, in D. Taniar (Ed.) Mobile Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications, Hershey, PA:IGI Global
- Ryu, H., & Parsons, D. (Eds.) (2009). Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies, Hershey. PA: Information Science Reference.
- Xie, F., & Parsons, D. (2009). Assessing the Benefits of AJAX in Mobile Learning Systems Design, in H. Ryu and D. Parsons (Eds.) Innovative Mobile Learning: Techniques and Technologies, Hershey, PA: IGI Global. 323-354.
- Stockdale, R., Le Heron, J., & Parsons, D. (2009). Beyond Content: Engaging Students in Tertiary Foundation Courses in Information Technology. Journal of Applied Computing and Information Technology 13(1)
- Parsons, D., Ryu, H., & Lal R. (2008). Better, Not More Expensive, Faster? The Perceived Effects of Pair Programming in Survey Data. Proceedings of 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3-5 December 2008.
- Parsons, D., Stockdale, R., Bowles, J., & Kamble, V. (2008). If We Build It Will They Come? Creating a Virtual Classroom in Second Life. Proceedings of 19th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Christchurch, New Zealand, 3-5 December 2008.
- Parsons, D., & Ryu, H. (2008). Assessing Learning Technologies for Software Design Using CRC Cards. Proceedings of ascilite 2008 conference, Melbourne, Australia, 30 November - 3 December 2008.
- Xie, F. & Parsons, D. (2008). Measuring AJAX Performance on a GPRS Mobile Platform. Proceedings of International Journal of Principles and Applications in Information Science and Technology, 2(1) 1-12
- Ryu, H., Parsons, D., & Norris, T. (2008). International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation. Special Issue on: Current Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications editorial, 2(2), 99-102.
- Ryu, H., & Parsons, D. (2008). A learner-centred design of a location-aware learning reminder. International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation 2(2) 187-200
- Stockdale, R., Le Heron, J., Parsons, D., & Norris, T. (2008). Beyond Content: Engaging Students in Foundation Information Technology Courses. Proceedings of 21st Annual Conference of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications, Auckland, New Zealand, July 4-8, 2008, 169-174.
- Parsons, D. (2008). The Agile Technique Hour. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP2008), Limerick, Ireland, June 10-14 2008, 246-7.
- Parsons, D. (2008). Evolving Web Application Architectures, from Model 2 to Web 2, in D. Brandon (Ed.) Software Engineering for Modern Web Applications - Methodologies and Technologies, IGI Global, Hershey, PA: 138-159.
- Parsons, D. (2008). Dynamic Web Application Development Using XML and Java, London: Cengage Learning.
- Xie, F., & Parsons, D. (2008). Measuring Ajax Performance on a GPRS Mobile Platform. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Applications and Principles of Information Science (APIS2008), Auckland, New Zealand, January 28-29, 2008.
- Stobart, S., & Parsons, D. (2008). Dynamic Web Application Development Using PHP and MySQL, London: Cengage Learning.
- Mathrani, A., Viehland, D., & Parsons, D. (2007). Dynamics of Offshore Software Development Success: The Outsourcers Perspective. in V. Verma (Ed.) Managing Offshore Software Projects, Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India, 58-80.
- Mathrani, A., Goel, G., & Parsons. D. (2007). Building Trust Across Virtual Social Spaces: The Software Vendors' Perspectives. Proceedings of 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Toowoomba, Australia, December 5-7 2007.
- Parsons. D., Lal, R., Lange, M., & Ryu, H. (2007). Software Development Methodologies, Agile Development and Usability Engineering. Proceedings of 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Toowoomba, Australia, December 5-7 2007.
- Parsons, D. (2007). Mobile Portal Technologies and Business Models, in A. Tatnall (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Portal Technology and Applications, Hershey, PA:IGI Global, 583-586.
- Parsons, D., Ryu, H., & Cranshaw, M. (2007). A Design Requirements Framework for Mobile Learning Environments, Journal of Computers 2(4) 1-8.
- Parsons. D. (2007). Evolving Architectural Patterns For Web Applications. Proceedings of Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Tan, Thong & Janczewski (eds.) Auckland, New Zealand, July 3-6, 2007, 120-126.
- Parsons, D., Ryu, H., & Lal, R. (2007). The Impact of Methods and Techniques on Outcomes from Agile Software Development Projects. in Organisational Dynamics of Technology-based Innovation: Diversifying the Research Agenda, McMaster, Wastell, Ferneley & DeGross (eds.) Proceedings of IFIP 8.6 conference, Manchester, UK, June 14-16 2007, Springer, 235-249.
- Parsons, D. (2007). Mobile Learning, in D. Taniar (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce, IGI Global, 525-527
- Mathrani, A., & Parsons, D. (2007). Management of Knowledge Transfer in Distributed Software Organizations: The Outsourcers' Perspective, in Annals of Information Systems, Vol 2: Decision Support for Global Enterprises, Kulkarmi, Power and Sharda (eds.), New York: Springer, 2007, 75-89.
- Parsons D., & Ryu, H. (eds.) (2007). Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications (MoLTA), Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, Auckland.
- Parsons, D., & Ryu. (2007). Software Architectures for Mobile Learning. Proceedings of Conference on Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications (MoLTA) 2007, Auckland New Zealand, 19 February 2007, 39-46.
- Ryu, H., Brown, R., Wong, A., & Parsons, D. (2007). Personal Learning Organiser: A design of mobile learning experience for university students. Proceedings of Conference on Mobile Learning Technologies and Applications (MoLTA) 2007, Auckland New Zealand, 19 February 2007, 23-30.
- Diegel, D. Ryu, H., Norris, T., Stockdale, R., Parsons, D., & Hawick, K. (2007). Predictive Health Monitoring Systems for the Management of Hypertension. Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Applications and Principles of Information Science (APIS 2007), Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia 20-23 January 2007, 19-22.
- Parsons, D., & Newnham, J. (2006). A Web Services Architecture for Rich Content Mobile Learning Clients. Proceedings of 17th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2006), Adelaide, Australia, 6-8 December 2006.
- Brown, R., Ryu, H., & Parsons, D. (2006). Mobile Helper for University Students: A Design for a Mobile Learning Environment, Proceedings of OzCHI 2006, Sydney, Australia, 20-24 November 2006
- Parsons, D., Ryu, H., & Cranshaw, M. (2006). A Study of Design Requirements for Mobile Learning Environments. Proceedings of Sixth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'06), Kerkrade, The Netherlands, 5-7 July 2006, 96-100.
- Mathrani, A., Parsons, D., & Viehland, D. (2006). Offshore Software Development Strategies of an Indian Vendor: A Study. The Icfaian Journal of Management Research, 5 (5), May 2006, 71-81.
- Parsons, D. (2006). Extending the Location API for J2ME to Support Friend Finder Services. Proceedings of 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Dijon, France, April 2006, 992-6.
- Parsons, D., & Ryu, H. (2006). A Framework for Assessing the Quality of Mobile Learning in R. Dawson, E. Georgiadou, P. Lincar, M. Ross & G. Staples (eds.), Learning and Teaching Issues in Software Quality, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference for Process Improvement, Research and Education (INSPIRE), Southampton Solent University, UK, April 2006, 17-27.
- Parsons, D., & Lal, R. (2006). Hybrid Agile Development and Software Quality in R.Dawson, E. Georgiadou, P. Linecar, M.Ross & G. Staples (eds.), Perspectives in Software Quality, proceedings of the 14th International Software Quality Management (SQM) Conference, Southampton Solent University, UK, April 2006, 283-298.
- Parsons D., & Schroder, S. (2006). Adaptive Information Systems for the Web 2.0: Developing a Mobile Learning Architecture. Proceedings of 11th Annual Conference of the United Kingdom Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS 2006), University of Gloucestershire, UK, April 2006.
- Parsons D. (2006). Adaptive Web Applications. Paper presented at Software Development Conference '06, Wellington, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia, 13-17 March, 2006.
- Parsons, D., Rashid, A., Telea, A., & Speck, A. (2006). An Architectural Pattern for Designing Component-Based Application Frameworks, Software Practice and Experience, 36, January 2006, 157-190.
- Parsons, D. (2006). The Java Location API. Dr. Dobbs Journal, January 2006, 53-8.
- Parsons, D., Ryu, H. Lal, R., & Ford, S. (2005). Paper Prototyping in a Design Framework for Professional Mobile Learning. Proceedings of 6th W-eB Conference, Melbourne, November 2005.
- Mathrani, A., Viehland, D., & Parsons, D. (2005). Dynamics of Offshore Software Development Success: The Outsourcers Perspective. Proceedings of Second International Conference in Knowledge Management in Asia Pacific, Victoria University, Wellington, 28 -29 November, 2005
- Mathrani, A., Parsons, D., & Viehland, D. (2005). Virtual Team Issues: Culture, Communication, Coordination and Control - The New Zealand and Indian Perspective, Proceedings of First International Conference on Management of Globally Distributed Work, Bangalore, India 28th - 30th December, 2005, 291-301.
- Mathrani, A., & Parsons, D. (2005). Dynamics of Offshore Software Development Success: An Indian Vendor Perspective, Proceedings of Fifth Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management; Bhopal, India, 27-30 December 2005, 817-825.
- Parsons, D. (2005). Developing a Simulator for the Location API for J2ME. Research Letters in the Information and Mathematical Sciences, 8, 157-170.
- Parsons, D. (2005). Extending the Client Side Object Model in the Location API for J2ME. Mobile Object Systems Workshop, 19th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2005), Glasgow, July 2005.
- Parsons, D., Kirsh, I., & Cranshaw, M. (2005). Java Technology for the Wireless Industry - Toys or Tools? Java Developers Journal, 10 (1), January 2005, 32-7.
- Parsons, D. (2005). Java Architectures for Mobilised Enterprise Systems Proceedings of Hawaii Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS 38), Hawaii, January 2005, 298.
- Parsons, D. (2005). Object Oriented Programming with C++ (2nd edition), London: Thomson (reprint of 1997 edition by new publisher).
- Parsons, D. (2004). Java Phones - Not Just for Games. Telecommunications Review, December 2004, 21.
- Parsons, D., & Cranshaw, M. (2004). Mobile Information Systems in a 3G/WLAN World - Many Rich Clients who Know Where They Are Proceedings of ACIS 2004 Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, December 2004
- Parsons, D. (2004). The Mobile Future. Research Letters in the Information and Mathematical Sciences, 7, 47-58.
- Parsons, D. (2004). The Mobile Future. Paper presented at Software Development 2004 Conference, Wellington, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia, March 2004
- Parsons, D., & Cranshaw, M. (2003). Java Data Objects - Taking The Eeeeeeh! Out of EJB OT 2003 Conference, Cambridge, UK, April 2003
- Parsons, D. (2003). Introductory Java (2nd edition), London: Continuum.
- Parsons, D. (2002). Mind The Gap! - Mapping Enterprise Java Objects to the Database. UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) Conference. Birmingham, UK, December 2002
- Parsons, D. (2002). Enterprise Integration with Oracle 9iAS & J2EE. UK Oracle User Group Java Seminar, June 2002, London.
- Parsons, D. (2002). New Features in EJB 2.OT 2002 Conference, Oxford, UK, April 2002 (also presented at XML/Web Services 2002, London
- Parsons, D. (2001). New Dogs, Old Tricks - Design Patterns for EJB. Paper presented at OT 2001 Conference, Oxford, UK, April 2001
- Parsons, D., & Cranshaw, M. (2000). Patterns of Visual Programming. Proceedings of TOOLS 33 Europe 2000, Mont St. Michel, France, June 2000
- Parsons, D., & Cranshaw, M. (2000). Patterns of Visual Programming. Paper presented at OT 2000 Conference, Oxford, UK, March 2000
- Parsons, D. (2000). e-Business Java in the Classroom. Proceedings of 4th Java in the Computing Curriculum Conference, South Bank University, UK, January 2000.
- Parsons, D. (2000). Object Oriented Programming with C++ (2nd edition), London: Continuum (reprint of 1997 edition by new publisher).
- Parsons, D. (1999). Run Time Reusability in Object Oriented Schematic Capture. Ph.D. thesis, Information Technology, Nottingham Trent University
- Rashid, A., Parsons, D., & Telea, A. (eds.) (1999). Position papers from the 9th Workshop for PhD Students in Object Oriented Systems. Eindhoven University of Technology.
- Rashid, A., Telea, A., & Parsons, D. (1999). 9th Workshop for PhD Students in Object Oriented Systems. 13th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Lisbon, Portugal, June 1999. ECOOP '99 Workshop Reader (Editors: Ana Moreira, Serge Demeyer) LNCS 1743, Springer, 116.
- Parsons, D., Rashid, A., Speck, A., & Telea, A. (1999). A 'Framework' For Object-Oriented Frameworks Design.Proceedings of TOOLS Europe 99, Nancy, France, June 1999, 141-151.
- Parsons, D. (1999). Java + Patterns = Object Engineering? Proceedings of 3rd Java in the Computing Curriculum Conference, South Bank University, UK, January 1999. Monitor, 12, 31-37.
- Parsons, D. (1998). Run-Time Reusability in Object-Oriented Schematic Capture. 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 98) Brussels, Belgium, July 1998. ECOOP '98 Workshop Reader (Editors: S. Demeyer & J. Bosch) LNCS 1543, Springer, 23-24.
- Parsons, D. (1998). UML: Notations, Roles, Design Processes OT 98 Conference Oxford, UK, April 1998.
- Parsons, D. (1998). Introductory Java (1st edition), London: Letts Educational
- Parsons, D. (1997). Object Oriented Programming with C++ (2nd edition), London: Letts Educational.
- Parsons, D., & Kazmierski, T. (1997). Visual polymorphism in schematic capture for VHDL-AMS. IEEE/VIUF International Workshop on Behavioral Modeling and Simulation (BMAS'97), Arlington, Virginia, USA, October 1997.
- Parsons, D. & Kazmierski, T. (1997). Building an Extensible User Interface. OT 97 Conference, Oxford, UK, April 1997
- Parsons, D. (1996). Small Scale Functional Modelling - An Object-Driven Approach. OT 96 Conference, Oxford, UK, March 1996.
- Parsons, D. (1995). Object Oriented Systems of Capturing Schematic Data. M.Phil. thesis, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.
- Parsons, D. (1994). Object Oriented Programming with C++ (1st edition), London: DP Publications
- Parsons, D. (1994). Pragmatism over Purism? An Incremental Approach to the Teaching of Object-Oriented Programming in Software Engineering in Higher Education eds. G. King, C.A.Brebbia, M. Ross and G.Staples, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton and Boston, 375-382.
- Parsons, D., & Kazmierski, T. (1993). Object Oriented Schematic Capture for Circuit Simulation in Software Applications in Electrical Engineering ed. P. P. Silvester, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton and Boston, 377-385.
