Browsing by Subject "Action research"
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Featuring dental education research: Applying the principles of action research to improve teaching of dental prosthetics
(South African Dental Association, 2009)This article focuses on educational research conducted at the newly merged UWC faculty of dentistry. The research emphasizes the change in teaching methods employed to address the concerns experienced in teaching large ... -
Featuring dental education research: Applying the principles of action research to improve the teaching of dental prosthetics
(South African Dental Association (SADA), 2009)This article focuses on educational research conducted at the newly merged UWC faculty of dentistry. The research emphasises the change in teaching methods employed to address the concerns experienced in teaching the ... -
Preparation of Deaf end-users and the softbridge for semi-automated relay trials
(Telkom, 2004)Following on the development of several prototypes, we have built a semi-automated Deaf Telephony prototype on the SoftBridge platform. This prototype relays text and speech between Deaf users on the Internet and hearing ... -
The role of Outcome Mapping in developing a rural telemedicine system
(International Information Management Corporation, 2008)We describe the use of Outcome Mapping to guide the design of a rural telemedicine consultation system in South Africa. While Outcome Mapping was not primarily intended to guide design, we show that it tied in well with a ... -
Socially aware software engineering for the developing world
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2006)While the social effects of Information Technology (IT) have received much attention there is very little work on targeted methodologies to develop IT applications and content in a developing world environment. This paper ... -
SoftBridge in action: the first Deaf telephony pilot
(Telkom, 2003)Following on several partial prototypes, we built an automated Deaf Telephony bridging application with the SoftBridge platform. The SoftBridge performs multi-modal bridging in real-time using Text-to-Speech (TTS) and ... -
Telecommunications bridging between deaf and hearing users in South Africa
(2004)This paper presents a description of telecommunications for Deaf people in South Africa by contrasting the situation in the developed world. We explain the main motivations for providing a locally appropriate solution. ...