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Mobile media distribution in developing contexts
(2011)
There are a growing number of mobile phones being used in developing contexts, such as Africa. A large percentage of these phones have the capability to take photographs and transmit them freely using Bluetooth. In order ...
Supporting NGO intermediation with internet systems : comparing mobile and web examples for reaching low income urban youth of Cape Town
(2014)
Intermediaries are necessary to overcome challenges of Internet use for many users in the developing world. However the need for co-presence with intermediaries can be inconvenient for beneficiaries, and the process is ...
Participatory cloud computing : the community cloud management protocol
(2014)
This thesis work takes an investigative approach into developing a middleware solution for managing services in a community cloud computing infrastructure pre-dominantly made of interconnected low power wireless devices. ...
A workflow for geocoding South African addresses
(2015)
There are many industries that have long been utilizing Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for spatial analysis. In many parts of the world, it has gained less popularity because of inaccurate geocoding methods and a ...
Procedurally generating surface detail for 3D models using voxel-based cellular automata
(2016)
Procedural generation is used extensively in the field of computer graphics to automate content generation and speed up development. One particular area often automated is the generation of additional colour and structural ...
Multitouch-based collaborative pre-visualisation for computer animation
(2016)
Computer animated pre-visualisation occurs at an early stage of visualising scenes in low-fidelity. This is a collaborative process, in which directors communicate with animators how shot sequences will occur. Producers ...
Accelerated coplanar facet radio synthesis imaging
(2016)
Imaging in radio astronomy entails the Fourier inversion of the relation between the sampled spatial coherence of an electromagnetic field and the intensity of its emitting source. This inversion is normally computed by ...
Crowdsourcing a text corpus for a low resource language
(2016)
Low resourced languages, such as South Africa's isiXhosa, have a limited number of digitised texts, making it challenging to build language corpora and the information retrieval services, such as search and translation ...
Design of a mobile support and content authoring tool to support deaf adults training in computer literacy skills
(2016)
This dissertation investigates the challenges that Deaf adults encounter at the task of learning computer literacy skills. Deaf adults who communicate using South African Sign Language (SASL) come from poor socio-economic ...
Procedurally generated realistic virtual rural worlds
(2016)
Manually creating virtual rural worlds is often a difficult and lengthy task for artists, as plant species selection, plant distributions and water networks must be deduced such that they realistically reflect the environment ...