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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 ...
Towards a model for user-centred design using a positive deviance approach: A case for diabetes self-management
(University of Cape Town, 2017)
Over the past twenty years there have been substantive efforts across the African continent to ensure penetration and reach of mobile technology to the citizenry. However there continues to be a debate on precisely how ...
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 ...
Amplifying positive deviance with ICT enabling community development and interdependence
(Springer, 2017)
Positive deviance is a social mechanism whereby a beneficial practice that is not considered as normal gets taken up and spread within a community. This enables a community to solve its own problems aided by mentorship 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 ...
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 ...