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Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users
(2013)
This dissertation documents a journey into the design of Ummeli with a community of semi‐literate job seekers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town whose primary access to the internet was through their mobile phones. Working closely ...
Video quality requirements for South African Sign Language communications over mobile phones.
(2012)
This project aims to find the minimum video resolution and frame rate that supports intelligible cell phone based video communications in South African Sign Language.
A weather related causal analysis on consolidated delay at Newark Liberty International Airport
(2013)
The closure of the European airspace due to the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull in 2010 proved a major challenge for airlines and aviation authorities on a global scale. In contrast, more seasonal adverse ...
Web-based management of time-series raster data
(2010)
Data discovery and data handling often presents serious challenges to organizations that manage huge archives of raster datasets such as those generated by satellite remote sensing. Satellite remote sensing produces a ...
A study of mobile phone ad hoc networks via bluetooth with different routing protocols
(2013)
The growth of mobile computing is changing the way people communicate. Mobile devices, especially mobile phones, have become cheaper and more powerful, and are able to run more applications and provide networking services. ...
Simple digital libraries
(2013)
The design of Digital Library Systems (DLSes) has evolved overtime, both in sophistication and complexity, to complement the complex nature and sheer size of digital content being curated. However, there is also a growing ...
Introduction to Python Programming, Part 1
(2012-04)
A first half of a first course on how to program in Python. This set of six files comprises the slides from first 6 weeks of our 12 week first year course on Python Programming. It is an introduction aimed at students who ...
A GPU-Based level of detail system for the real-time simulation and rendering of large-scale granular terrain
(2014)
Real-time computer games and simulations often contain large virtual outdoor environments. Terrain forms an important part of these environments. This terrain may consist of various granular materials, such as sand, rubble ...
Active shape model segmentation of Brain structures in MR images of subjects with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
(2010)
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is the most common form of preventable mental retardation worldwide. This condition affects children whose mothers excessively consume alcohol whilst pregnant. FASD can be identified ...
Voxel-space shape grammars
(2012)
The field of Procedural Generation is being increasingly used in modern content generation for its ability to significantly decrease the cost and time involved. One such area of Procedural Generation is Shape Grammars, a ...