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Inclination of scholars to major in information systems or computer science
(2005)
This paper describes a survey of 497 final year scholars at schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. They were asked about their inclination to study information systems (IS) or computer science (CS), their knowledge of ...
X-Switch: An Efficient Multi-User Multi-Language Web Application Server.
(2010)
Web applications are usually installed on and accessed through a Web server. For security reasons, these Web servers generally provide very few privileges to Web applications, defaulting to executing them in the realm of ...
A Balanced Approach to IT Project Management
(2007)
The primary objectives of this study were to identify how IT projects can be managed using the Balanced Scorecard approach. Although the research is positioned to have potential application within international project ...
SignDIn: Designing and assessing a generisable mobile interface for Sign support
(2015)
SignSupport is a collaborative project between the Computer Science departments of the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa. The intention of the software is to assist ...
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 ...
On supporting K-anonymisation and L-diversity of crime databases with genetic algorithms in a resource constrained environment
(2015)
The social benefits derived from analysing crime data need to be weighed against issues relating to privacy loss. To facilitate such analysis of crime data Burke and Kayem [7] proposed a framework (MCRF) to enable mobile ...
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 ...