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Accelerating point cloud cleaning
(2017)
Capturing the geometry of a large heritage site via laser scanning can produce thousands of high resolution range scans. These must be cleaned to remove unwanted artefacts. We identified three areas that can be improved ...
Enhancing digital heritage archives using gamified annotations
(2017)
In the context of digital heritage archives, we find heritage objects having intrinsic contextual and historical information. Capturing all that information is difficult, especially if that effort is left only to the ...
COLAB: social context and user experience in collaborative multiplayer games
(2017)
Recent studies have shown that the social context in which people play digital multiplayer games has an effect on their experience. Whether co-players are in the same location ("co-located") or in different locations ...
VRBridge: A constructivist approach to supporting interaction design and end-user authoring in virtual reality
(2010)
For any technology to become widely-used and accepted, it must support end-user authoring and customisation. This means making the technology accessible by enabling understanding of its design issues and reducing its ...
Comparison of layered surface visualization through animated particles and rocking
(2010)
Visualizations that show the shape of and spatial relationships between layers of surfaces are useful to oceanographers studying water masses or oncologists planning radiation treatments. The shape of and distances between ...
A community-based approach to new medium integration in South African education : a combination of ICT4D process approach and ethnographic action research techniques
(2013)
Our initial study indicates that successful integration of new communication medium into South African schools is not only challenging from the financial point of view, but also in terms of designing tools that fit within ...
Performance benchmarking physical and virtual linux envrionments
(2012)
Virtualisation is a method of partitioning one physical computer into multiple "virtual" computers, giving each the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated hardware. Each virtual system functions as a ...
Drivable region detection for autonomous robots applied to South African underground mining
(2012)
This dissertation focuses on enhancing autonomous robots' capability to identify drivable regions in underground terrains. A system model that compares the drivability analysis of underground terrains using the entropy ...
The design considerations and development of a simulator for the backtesting of investment strategies
(2011)
The skill of accurately predicting the optimal time to buy or sell shares on the stock market is one that has been actively sought by both experienced and novice investors since the advent of the stock exchange in the early ...
Context-aware handoff support for wireless access networks
(2010)
The phenomenal emergence of several heterogeneous wireless networks and technologies has allowed users to have access to IP services anywhere, at anytime, from any network and with whatever terminal they use. This computing ...