Now showing items 166-171 of 171

    • Video Relay Service for Deaf people using WebRTC 

      Henney, Andre J; Tucker, William D (University of the Western Cape, 2019-03)
      This paper reports on an experimental open source video relay service prototype that helps Deaf people communicate with hearing people by accessing a third party sign language interpreter on a mobile device. Deaf people ...
    • Walking and the social life of solar charging in rural Africa 

      Bidwell, Nicola J.; Siya, Masbulele Jay; Marsden, Gary; Tucker, William David; Tshemese, M.; Gaven, N.; Ntlangano, Senzo; Robinson, Simon; Eglinton, Kristen Ali (Association for Computing Machinery, 2013)
      We consider practices that sustain social and physical environments beyond those dominating sustainable HCI discourse. We describe links between walking, sociality, and using resources in a case study of community-based, ...
    • Water distribution network leak detection management 

      Mouton, Francois; de Coning, Arno (Curran Associates Inc., 2020)
      Water is becoming an increasingly scarce commodity and must be effectively managed to ensure minimal losses. Water is a basic human resource and during both a physical and a cyber war, limiting, or interrupting the supply ...
    • Waternet: A network for monitoring and assessing water quality for drinking and irrigation purposes 

      Ajayi, Olasupo O.; Bagula, Antoine B.; Maluleke, Hloniphani C. (IEEE, 2022)
      Water is a fundamental requirement for human, animal, and plant survival. Despite its importance, quality water is not always fit for drinking, domestic and/or industrial use. Numerous factors such as industrialization, ...
    • Web-based telephony bridges for the deaf 

      Glaser, Meryl; Tucker, William David (Telkom, 2001)
      A Teldem provides text-based telephony services to the deaf. Despite an array of text-based communications mechanisms on the web, the Teldem is the only means of synchronous telecommunication available to a deaf person. ...
    • Untitled 

      Tucker, William David; Westerveld, Rudi (John Wiley & Sons, 2015)
      Local access in the context of regions in the global South continues to undergo transformation due to the growing ubiquity of mobile connectivity and the recent appearance of what have been termed “inverse” telecommunication ...