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Text Messaging a tool in e-Health services
(Telkom, 2010)
HIV/AIDS continues to be a menace to the
global community, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and
South Africa is not an exception. The infection rate is
continues to grow, in particular, among the young adults.
Cell ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
State-of-the-art review on relevance of genetic algorithm to internet web search
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
People use search engines to find information they desire with the aim that their information needs will be met. Information
retrieval (IR) is a field that is concerned primarily with the searching and retrieving of ...
The impact of ICT Investments on human development: a regression splines analysis
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
Despite the worldwide growth in investments in information and communication technology (JCT), few studies have investigated the complex interactions between components of JCT investments and different dimensions of human ...
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 ...