Browsing Faculty of Natural Sciences by Author "Venter, Isabella M."
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A bridge over the computer science graduate skill gap
(2013)Universities are increasingly required to respond to the ever evolving needs of an ever more sophisticated and globalised workplace, which requires well-rounded workers with more than mere technical knowledge. Employers ... -
Comparative study of admissions criteria of a selection of South African universities
(Stellenbosch University, 2011)Summary: The new school-leaving certificate, the National Senior Certificate (NSC), was awarded for the first time in 2008. This necessitated a relook at the entrance requirements for university, as the school subjects ... -
Complex sequential data analysis: A systematic literature review of existing algorithms
(SAICSIT, 2020)This paper provides a review of past approaches to the use of deep-learning frameworks for the analysis of discrete irregularpatterned complex sequential datasets. A typical example of such a dataset is financial data ... -
Cyber security education is as essential as “the three R's”
(CELLPRESS, 2019)Smartphones have diffused rapidly across South African society and constitute the most dominant information and communication technologies in everyday use. That being so, it is important to ensure that all South Africans know ... -
Designing mobile phone interfaces for age diversity in South Africa: “One-World” versus diverse “Islands”
(Springer, 2013)Designing for diversity is a laudable aim. How to achieve this, in the context of mobile phone usage by South African seniors, is a moot point. We considered this question from two possible perspectives: universal ... -
Empowerment of rural farmers through information sharing using inexpensive technologies
(ACM, 2011)This paper discusses how to empower rural farmers to do business by means of inexpensive mobile technologies. In particular, the aim is to take advantage of the inexpensive features of low-end mobile phones to access market ... -
Fast tracking students from disadvantaged backgrounds into main stream Computer Science
(Computer Society of South Africa, 2000)A computer-based training (CBT) system was used to teach Computer Literacy to full-time students at the University of the Western Cape. This approach was successful in creating computer literate students as well as creating ... -
Generalization of tooltips: An assistive technology extension
(Springer, 2017)Software applications use tooltips to assist users to improve their understanding of icons. When hovering over an icon with the cursor, a short text description of the icon appears. Text-based tooltips are helpful for users ... -
Higher education students’ perceptions of online learning during Covid-19—A comparative study
(MPDI, 2021)The pandemic and subsequent ‘lockdowns’ dramatically changed the educational landscape of higher education institutions. Before-COVID-19, traditional universities had choices in pedagogical practice, which included a ... -
Improved Hand-Tracking Framework with a Recovery Mechanism
(Telkom, 2013)Abstract−Hand-tracking is fundamental to translating sign language to a spoken language. Accurate and reliable sign language translation depends on effective and accurate hand-tracking. This paper proposes an improved ... -
Insights into the use and affordances of social and collaborative applications for student projects
(South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2017)The use of social and collaborative computing has the potential of assisting learning and improving the ability to work together as part of a team. Team work is a graduate attribute that students need to acquire before ... -
‘Lockdown’: Digital and emergency elearning technologies—A student perspective
(MDPI, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent emergency measures had a fundamental and disruptive impact on societies and, in particular, on the educational sector. The transition of the modality of educational delivery from ... -
A mobile platform traffic generator for network performance evaluation
(Telkom, 2013)This work in progress paper presents an overview of the development of an efficient and accurate mobile traffic generator based on an open source computer-based traffic generator software. A high performance mobile traffic ... -
Peer-to-Peer Computing and Grid Computing: towards a better understanding
(Akamai University, 2011)Currently, both Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P) and Grid Computing have remained the most vibrant and useful forms of distributed computing all over the world. Their applications are such that they cut across both academia ... -
Relevant computing curricula in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2011)The principle objective of this research was to establish what computing curricula are required for the Sub-Saharan Africa region. Input from academics, businessmen and the analyses of curricula from several African ... -
Strategies for information management in education: some international experience
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013)Background: Recent analysis of the management of information and communications technologies in South African education suggests strongly that there is only limited strategic thinking that might guide policy-makers, school ... -
Towards ensuring scalability, interoperability and efficient access control in a multi-domain grid-based environment
(South African Institute of Electrical Engineers, 2013)The application of grid computing has been hampered by three basic challenges: scalability, interoperability and efficient access control which need to be optimized before a full-scale adoption of grid computing can take ... -
Unmasking community trust issues in rural field work
(ACM, 2013)The principal objective of this paper is to describe the au thor's fieldwork and research in a remote rural area of South Africa, where a Village Telco is deployed to provide Voice over Internet Protocol on a wireless mesh ...
