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Developing locally relevant applications for rural areas: a South African example
(SAICSIT, in assocation with ACM, 2004)
The digital divide between rural and urban areas within developing countries is vast. We investigate how to address this divide by introducing Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into remote rural areas. Our ...
Floor control arbitration for a hybrid voice/text web-board
(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 ...
Evaluating the relevance of the “Real Access” criteria as a framework for rural HCI research
(ACM, 2006)
Developing ICT software that is useful and usable in a rural context poses many problems. One of the major difficulties is understanding the real needs of the target users and the constraints imposed by the rural environment. ...
Kiara: an open source SIP system to support Deaf telephony
(Telkom, 2008)
This paper describes Kiara, an open source SIPbased communication system that provides the building blocks to enable Deaf relay services. We have implemented a prototype that provides real-time text, voice and video to 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 ...
Reflection on three years of rural wireless Internet Protocol communication
(Telkom, 2007)
This paper reports on three years of research and fieldwork with a rural wireless Internet Protocol communication project. We built a long-range WiFi network and custom communication software to support a rural telehealth ...
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 ...
Open user interconnect and quality of communication
(Telkom, 2004)
We looked for and found two situations within the South African Digital Divide where constant and severe macro-scale latencies would most likely interfere with the usage of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) ...
Connecting bridges across the digital divide
(ACM, 2004)
Connecting people across the Digital Divide is as much a social effort as a technological one. We are developing a community-centered approach to learn how interaction techniques can compensate for poor communication across ...
An IP based multimodal semi-synchronous rural telehealth service: Adding video messaging and conferencing to MuTI
(Telkom, 2004)
We intend adding video messaging and conferencing to Multimodal Telemedicine Intecommunicator (MuTI), a previous system that has already been in place in the target environment. This is to allow a semi-synchronous communication ...