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    • Fast tracking students from disadvantaged backgrounds into main stream Computer Science 

      Blignaut, Renette; Venter, Isabella M.; Cranfield, D.J. (Computer Society of South Africa, 2000)
      A computer-based training (CBT) system was used to teach Computer Literacy to full-time students at the University of the Western Cape. This approach was successful in creating computer literate students as well as creating ...
    • FHMIPv6-based handover for wireless mesh networks 

      Chitedze, Zimani; Tucker, William David (Telkom, 2012)
      This paper shows that mobility management protocols for infrastructure Internet may be used in a wireless mesh network environment. Mesh topology tends to be an unplanned graph and routes change dynamically and in this ...
    • Floor control arbitration for a hybrid voice/text web-board 

      Benjamin, Anita; Tucker, William David (Telkom, 2003)
      We have built a hybrid voice/text web–board that utilizes floor control for handling resources such as microphone and interface events. The aim of this research is to determine the most appropriate floor control mechanism ...
    • A framework and toolkit for the collection and analysis of QoS statistics for voice traffic in Next Generation Networks 

      Paulse, Tania M.; Tucker, William David (Telkom, 2000)
      The multi-service, multi-architecture nature of NGNs is so complex that the management of services, in addition to networks, emerges as a research challenge. Despite QoS limitations, VoIP (as opposed to VoATM), dominates ...
    • A framework and toolkit for the collection and analysis of QoS statistics for voice traffic in Next Generation Networks 

      Paulse, Tania M. (Telkom, 2000)
      The multi-service, multi-architecture nature of NGNs is so complex that the management of services, in addition to networks, emerges as a research challenge. Despite QoS limitations, VoIP (as opposed to VoATM), dominates ...
    • Gender and participation: critical reflection on Zenzeleni Networks in Mankosi, South Africa 

      Hussen, Tigist Shewarega; Bidwell, Nicola J.; Rey-Moreno, Carlos; Tucker, William David (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 ...
    • Generalization of tooltips: An assistive technology extension 

      Adams, Saira-Banu; Tucker, William David; Venter, Isabella M. (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 ...
    • Government facilitated access to ICTs: adoption, use and impact on the well-being of indigent South Africans 

      Kassongo, Francois; Tucker, William David; Pather, Shaun (IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2018)
      This paper presents preliminary results of an assessment of the impact of a government facilitated ICT access programme on the well-being of poor citizens. It examines South African government efforts in the application ...
    • Grafting an ATM network onto an existing ethernet network 

      Tucker, William David; Keats, Derek (Telkom, 1998)
      Grafting an ATM network onto an existing Ethernet network is a non-trivial exercise in network configuration. The process of mating ATM technology to an Ethernet network without tampering the underlying backbone and network ...
    • Granny gets smarter but junior hardly notices 

      Blignaut, Renette; Venter, Isabella Margarethe; Renaud, Karen (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 ...
    • Groundwater prediction using machine-learning tools 

      Hussein, Eslam A.; Thron, Christopher; Ghaziasgar, Mehrdad (MPDI, 2020)
      Predicting groundwater availability is important to water sustainability and drought mitigation. Machine-learning tools have the potential to improve groundwater prediction, thus enabling resource planners to: (1) anticipate ...
    • Guaranteed delivery of semi-synchronous IP-based communication 

      Julius, Elroy P.; Tucker, William David (Telkom, 2004)
      This research aims to find an empirical solution for guaranteeing the delivery of synchronous and asynchronous messages within a semi-synchronous IP-based communication domain. The communication infrastructure that is ...
    • Guaranteed delivery of semi-synchronous IP-based communication 

      Julius, Elroy P.; Tucker, William David (Telkom, 2005)
      This paper presents an empirical solution for guaranteeing the delivery of synchronous and asynchronous messages within a semi-synchronous IPbased communication domain. The communication infrastructure that is needed between ...
    • Handheld fast-track feedback instant messaging 

      Adesemowo, A. Kayode; Tucker, William David (Telkom, 2003)
      As mobile devices and networks become more data-centric, text messaging requires an extension of co-presence capabilities for better interactive discussion between input/output handicapped handheld users and their free ...
    • Higher education students’ perceptions of online learning during Covid-19—A comparative study 

      Cranfield, Desireé J.; Tick, Andrea; Venter, Isabella M. (MPDI, 2021)
      The pandemic and subsequent ‘lockdowns’ dramatically changed the educational landscape of higher education institutions. Before-COVID-19, traditional universities had choices in pedagogical practice, which included a ...
    • ICT and information security perspectives in E-Health Systems 

      Agbele, Kehinde K.; Nyongesa, Henry O.; Adesina, Ademola Olusola (Medwell Journals, 2010)
      This study examines issues pertinent to the rapidly evolving use of information as a currency of modern economies. Access to information has important benefits that can be achieved in many areas including, social-economic ...
    • The impact of ICT Investments on human development: a regression splines analysis 

      Bankole, Felix Olu; Osei-Bryson, Kweku-Muata; Brown, Irwin (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 ...
    • Improved Hand-Tracking Framework with a Recovery Mechanism 

      Achmed, Imran; Venter, Isabella M.; Eisert, Peter (Telkom, 2013)
      Abstract−Hand-tracking is fundamental to translating sign language to a spoken language. Accurate and reliable sign language translation depends on effective and accurate hand-tracking. This paper proposes an improved ...
    • Improving quality-of-service in cloud/fog computing through efficient resource allocation 

      Akintoye, Samson Busuyi; Bagula, Antoine (MPDI, 2019)
      Recently, a massive migration of enterprise applications to the cloud has been recorded in the IT world. One of the challenges of cloud computing is Quality-of-Service management, which includes the adoption of appropriate ...
    • Improving usability and correctness of a mobile tool to help a Deaf person with pharmaceutical instruction 

      Motlhabi, Michael B.; Tucker, William David; Parker, Mariam B.; Glaser, Meryl (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 ...