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Integrating contextmapping and interaction design: designing with and for small-scale urban farmers in Soweto
(2015)
This thesis describes and reflects on the effectiveness of integrating contextmapping as both a methodology and interaction design practice in order to co-design digital products with and for developing communities. A ...
Bridging the digital divide in African post-conflict countries: a case study of the DRC cities in Kinshasa and Kananga
(2007)
The digital divide is largely seen as the main problem that developing economies and societies must overcome to gain economic productivity and social welfare. In this document we state that modern western perception of the ...
User perception of gaming element effectiveness in a corporate learning application
(2017)
This Conversion Masters in Information Technology thesis gathered users' perceptions about eight gaming elements to determine their effectiveness on aspects of playability, enjoyment and intrinsic motivation needed in a ...
Enhancing colour-coded poll sheets using computer vision as a viable Audience Response System (ARS) in Africa
(2018)
Audience Response Systems (ARS) give a facilitator accurate feedback on a question posed to the listeners. The most common form of ARS are clickers; Clickers are handheld response gadgets that act as a medium of communication ...
Force-extension of the Amylose Polysaccharide
(2009)
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disorder in which auto-antibodies directed at the acetylcholine receptors (AChR) of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) block, alter or destroy their targets. The anti-AChR antibodies ...
Introduction to Java programming for the high school student
(2004)
The objective of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching high school students the Java language utilising Java classes. These classes were designed to simplify the syntax of the language and to introduce ...
A lossy, dictionary -based method for short message service (SMS) text compression
(2009)
Short message service (SMS) message compression allows either more content to be fitted into a single message or fewer individual messages to be sent as part of a concatenated (or long) message. While essentially only ...
Optimising information retrieval from the web in low-bandwidth environments
(2007)
The Internet has potential to deliver information to Web users that have no other way of getting to those resources. However, information on the Web is scattered without any proper semantics for classifying them and thus ...
Incompatibility of lognormal forward-Libor and Swap market models
(2005)
The lognormal forward-Libor and Swap market models were formulated to price caps and swaptions. However, the prices computed by these two models, under equivalent measures, are reported to be unequal. This study investigates ...