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Using access information in the dynamic visualisation of web sites
(2004)
Log file analysis provides a cost-effective means to detennine web site usage. However, current methods of displaying log analysis results tend to be limited in that they either contain no reference to a web site's structure, ...
Anomaly detection and prediction of human actions in a video surveillance environment
(2007)
World wide focus has over the years been shifting towards security issues, not in least due to recent world wide terrorist activities. Several researchers have proposed state of the art surveillance systems to help with ...
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 ...
Using formalised floor-plans in the design and creation of virtual environments
(2005)
Virtual Reality (VR) is an new and exciting medium waiting to be fully explored and capitalised by media experts. The advantages of the 3D graphics andinteractive nature of VR allows unique communication opportunities from ...
Help or hindrance? : an investigation into learning through web interfaces
(2007)
A usability study was designed with these issues in mind, to determine the influence of interface design on learning in an educational institution in Namibia. A pilot study identified obstacles and served to enhance the ...
Softbridge : a socially aware framework for communication bridges over digital divides
(2009)
Computer scientists must align social and technical factors for communication technologies in developing regions yet lack a framework to do so. The novel Softbridge framework comprises several components to address this ...
Epistemology as the basis for a corporate memory model
(2001)
Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge; it attempts to understand which beliefs a person can claim to know. This thesis discusses how theories found in epistemology can be used to understand what knowledge ...
A comparison of statistical and geometric reconstruction techniques : guidelines for correcting fossil hominin crania
(2007)
The study of human evolution centres, to a large extent, around the study of fossil morphology, including the comparison and interpretation of these remains within the context of what is known about morphological variation ...
Mixed-Language Arabic- English Information Retrieval
(2013)
This thesis attempts to address the problem of mixed querying in CLIR. It proposes mixed-language (language-aware) approaches in which mixed queries are used to retrieve most relevant documents, regardless of their languages. ...