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Supporting mobile developers through a Java IDE
(2008)
There exist several challenges in supporting mobile applications. For example, creating a separate target application for each device type, leaving developers with a huge maintenance chore. Most desktop applications run ...
Providing informational support to HIV + women in a virtual environment : a case study comparing the effects of virtual reality and paper media for content delivery
(2008)
This dissertation presents a comparison of the effects of two media, VR and paper (i.e. pamphlets) in communicating supportive information to an HIV+ sample group. We created a VE to provide social and informational support ...
Measuring the applicability of open data standards to a single distributed organisation : an application to the COMESA Secretariat
(2008)
This dissertation develops data metrics that represent the extent to which data standards can be applied to an organization's data. The research identified key issues that affect data interoperability or the feasibility ...
Semiotic machines : software in discourse
(2008)
This study develops new theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of software as a medium of communication. This study analyses voting software, educational software, search engines, and combat and narrative ...
A novel interface for first person shooter games on personal digital assistant devices
(2008)
The main aim of this study is to enhance the playability of games on current standard PDA devices. The newly designed interface more effectively leverages current well-established devices, which solves the problem of rapidly ...
Learning in a virtual world : expanding activity theory for the design and evaluation of group praxis
(2008)
This text responds to the increasing demand for frameworks to support the design and evaluation of virtual worlds which are effective in their particular learning context by developing, a meta-theoretical framework for ...
Automated stock trading : a multi-agent, evolutionary approach
(2008)
Stock market trading has garnered much interest over the past few decades as it has been made easier for the general public to trade. It is certainly an avenue for wealth growth, but like all risky undertakings, it must ...
Co-present photo sharing on mobile devices
(2008)
This dissertation researches current approaches to photo sharing. We have found that most current methods of photo sharing are not as compelling as traditional photo sharing - with the increasing in popularity of digital ...
Accelerating genomic sequence alignment using high performance reconfigurable computers
(2008)
Reconfigurable computing technology has progressed to a stage where it is now possible to achieve orders of magnitude performance and power efficiency gains over conventional computer architectures for a subset of high ...
An Adjectival Interface for procedural content generation
(2008)
In this thesis, a new interface for the generation of procedural content is proposed, in which the user describes the content that they wish to create by using adjectives. Procedural models are typically controlled by ...