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Gender and participation: critical reflection on Zenzeleni Networks in Mankosi, South Africa
(ACM, 2016-11-25)
This paper unveils the complexity of gender dynamics by reflecting on lessons learned in Zenzeleni Networks and provides a different perspective to notions of “participation” by asking “who participates and how?” The paper ...
Evaluating energy consumption on low-end smartphones
(2015)
The relationship between battery consumption in
smartphones and the usage statistics of a phone is direct. Modern
smartphones, even low-end, are equipped with multiple wireless
technologies, e.g. GSM, 3G, WiFi and ...
Investigating battery consumption in low- end smartphones: preliminary results
(International Information Management Corporation, 2017)
Due to lack of electricity in the rural communities of Africa, users often
have to incur extra expense on recharging their mobile phones. The limited battery
capacities of low-end smartphones, therefore, present a barrier ...
Towards communication and information access for deaf people
(SAICSIT, 2014)
In tightly circumscribed communication situations, an interactive system resident on a mobile device can assist Deaf people with their communication and information needs. The Deaf users considered here use South African ...
Mobile vertical handover between infrastructure and ad hoc Wi-Fi networks
(Telkom, 2011)
This paper addresses mobility management issues in an environment with both wireless LAN and wireless mesh networks. We first examine wireless mesh network client side transparency within mesh mobility management protocols ...
Managing information in education: a view from South Africa
(Emerald, 2017)
PURPOSE – A three-year study of information technology and information systems management in South
Africa has delivered (amongst other things) a bibliography and a new reference model. The paper aims to
discuss this ...
Granny gets smarter but junior hardly notices
(College of Communication and Information, 2016)
To ensure that university computing students are sensitized to the needs of
diverse user groups, a course project was designed to allow students to get a
realistic understanding of the needs and abilities of the older ...
Improving usability and correctness of a mobile tool to help a Deaf person with pharmaceutical instruction
(ACM, 2013)
The computing for development community knows how to build user interfaces using qualitative methods for text il- literate users, especially on mobile devices. However, lit- tle work has been done speci cally targeting ...
A novel document ranking algorithm that supports mobile healthcare information access effectiveness
(Academic Journals Inc., 2011)
This study presented DROPT; an acronym for Document ranking Optmization algorithm approach, a new idea for the effectiveness of meaningful retrieval results from the information source. Proposed method extracted the frequency ...
Situation-aware routing based on link quality for static mesh networks with mobile nodes
(Telkom, 2011)
Situation-aware routing seeks to improve quality of service on hybrid wireless mesh networks by making routing decisions based on the current situation of the network. BATMAN-adv is a mesh routing protocol that counts ...