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Towards a sustainable business model for rural telephony
(Telkom, 2012)
This paper presents the work done thus far towards designing a sustainable business model for rural telephony in the community of Mankosi, located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The pillars of the model are ...
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(John Wiley & Sons, 2015)
Local access in the context of regions in the global South continues to undergo transformation due to the growing ubiquity of mobile connectivity and the recent appearance of what have been termed “inverse” telecommunication ...
Usability of an authoring tool for generalised scenario creation for signsupport
(Telkom, 2015)
This paper presents the usability testing results for an
authoring tool that generalises scenario creation for a tool called
SignSupport. SignSupport is a mobile communication tool for
Deaf people that currently runs ...
An analysis of voice over Internet Protocol in wireless mesh networks
(IEEE, 2014)
The paper focuses on analyzing the affects of wireless mesh networks with some mobile nodes on Voice over Internet Protocol service quality. Our interest is to examine this in simulation to learn how to better deploy voice ...
Development consortium: HCI across borders
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2016)
Though every country and context is unique, and much
of HCI research aims to design for situatedness, there
are lessons to be learned across borders, across
contexts. Questions we ask include: What are common
themes ...
Tuning a mid-range rural WiFi-based mesh network
(ACM, 2013)
Little is known about how mid-range, or several km, dis- tances a ect multipoint-to-multipoint links when single ra- dio nodes with omnidirectional antennas are used. In this poster, a real network with these characteristics ...
Information protection in video relay services
(ACM, 2013)
This work in progress paper reports on initial research into the protection of information of the individuals that make use of video relay services. Our research team has developed an application called SignSupport, to aid ...
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 ...
Deaf telephony: community-based co-design
(Wiley, 2011)
The process of community-based co-design is one that explores various solution configurations in a multi-dimensional design space whose axes are the different dimensions of requirements and the various dimensions of designer ...
Situation-aware routing for wireless mesh networks with mobile nodes
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2012)
This paper describes a situation-aware algorithm based on the current situation of a mesh network with mobile nodes that improves quality of service. After running laboratory performance tests, we concluded that a ...