Browsing Research Articles (Computer Science) by Title
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Local ownership, exercise of ownership and moving from passive to active entitlement: a practice-led inquiry on a rural community network
(CCIRDT, 2015)In this paper, we aim to shed light on local ownership from a double practical and theoretical perspective, and examine its meaning as well as the factors that are bound to influence its development in community based ... -
Making a community network legal within the South African regulatory framework
(ACM, 2015)Community networks often operate at the fringe of legality with respect to spectrum, network infrastructure and providing services. We have been involved with such a network in a rural community, and together with them, ... -
Managing information in education: a view from South Africa
(Emerald, 2017)PURPOSE – A three-year study of information technology and information systems management in South Africa has delivered (amongst other things) a bibliography and a new reference model. The paper aims to discuss this ... -
Mobile Communication Tools for a South African Deaf patient in a pharmacy context
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2012)This paper presents a case for iterative community-based co-design to facilitate the emergence of an innovative mobile system to address a potentially life-threatening scenario for Deaf people in South Africa. For Deaf ... -
A mobile Deaf-to-hearing communication aid for medical diagnosis
(Telkom, 2010)This paper describes how a deaf to hearing communication aid built for a mobile phone can be used to provide semi-synchronous communication between a Deaf person and a hearing person who cannot sign. Deaf people with access ... -
A mobile platform traffic generator for network performance evaluation
(Telkom, 2013)This work in progress paper presents an overview of the development of an efficient and accurate mobile traffic generator based on an open source computer-based traffic generator software. A high performance mobile traffic ... -
A mobile survey for collecting data from deaf people who use sign language for communication
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc, 2021)Hearing researchers and practitioners might have encountered challenges in collecting data from Deaf people who mainly rely on sign language for communication. This could be due to language barriers and the non-user-friendly ... -
Mobile vertical handover between infrastructure and ad hoc Wi-Fi networks
(Telkom, 2011)This paper addresses mobility management issues in an environment with both wireless LAN and wireless mesh networks. We first examine wireless mesh network client side transparency within mesh mobility management protocols ... -
Mobile video comparison to help Deaf people make informed choices: a South African case study with provincial data
(IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2018)Deaf people use sign language to communicate and use mobile video calling to communicate with one another. Mobile video utilises much more bandwidth than text and voice communication modes, resulting in higher expenditure ... -
A Mobile-Health Information Access System
(Telkom, 2013)Patients using the Mobile-Health Information System can send SMS requests to a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) web server with the expectation of receiving an appropriate feedback on issues that relate to their health. ... -
Moving ICTD research beyond bungee jumping: practical case studies and recommendations
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016)The global spread of Internet and mobile communications has been accompanied by a growing interest in how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can contribute to social and economic development. There are a ... -
A multifactor comparative assessment of augmented reality frameworks in diverse computing settings
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023)Research and development on different augmented reality (AR) frameworks have come a long way when it comes to image tracking, object tracking, plane tracking and light estimation. However, there might be trade-offs and ... -
MUTI Telehealth
(2007)For four years we have been iteratively evolving MUTI, a rural telehealth system, for hospitals and clinics in a remote rural part of the Eastern Cape in South Africa (Chetty, 2005; Chetty et al., 2003, 2004a; Maunder et ... -
A novel approach integrating ranking functions discovery, optimization and infernce to improve retrieval performance
(Medwell Journals, 2010)The significant roles play by ranking function in the performance and success of Information Retrieval (IR) systems and search engines cannot be underestimated. Diverse ranking functions are available in IR literature. ... -
A novel document ranking algorithm that supports mobile healthcare information access effectiveness
(Academic Journals Inc., 2011)This study presented DROPT; an acronym for Document ranking Optmization algorithm approach, a new idea for the effectiveness of meaningful retrieval results from the information source. Proposed method extracted the frequency ... -
A Novel Epidemic Model for the Interference Spread in the Internet of Things
(MDPI, 2022): Due to the multi-technology advancements, internet of things (IoT) applications are in high demand to create smarter environments. Smart objects communicate by exchanging many messages, and this creates interference ... -
A novel immersive anatomy education system (anat_hub): Redefining blended learning for the musculoskeletal system
(MDPI, 2022)Immersive technologies are redefining ways of interacting with 3D objects and their environments. Moreover, efforts in blended learning have presented several advantages of incorporating educational technology into the ... -
On the Evolution Equation for Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic
(2021)The paper introduces and discusses the evolution equation, and, based exclusively on this equation, considers random walk models for the time series available on the daily confirmed Covid-19 cases for different countries. ... -
An ontology for the south african protection of personal information act
(Curran Associates Inc., 2020)The protection and management of data, and especially personal information, is becoming an issue of critical importance in both the business environment and in general society. Various institutions have justifiable reasons ... -
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) ...