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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 ...
Decision tree classifiers for incident call data sets
(2017)
Information technology (IT) has become one of the key technologies for economic and social development in any organization. Therefore the management of Information technology incidents, and particularly in the area of ...
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 ...
ITIKI: Bridge between African indigenous knowledge and modern science on drought prediction
(2012)
The now more rampant and severe droughts have become synonymous with Sub-Saharan Africa; they are a major contributor to the acute food insecurity in the Region. Though this scenario may be replicated in other regions in ...
Enhancing home based care for HIV patients using an advisory expert system
(2013)
South Africa has one of the highest Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevalence rates in the world. People living with HIV/AIDS experience many unrelieved symptoms. Nutritional care and support are important in preventing ...
GPU-based acceleration of radio interferometry point source visibility simulations in the MeqTrees framework
(2013)
Modern radio interferometer arrays are powerful tools for obtaining high resolution images of low frequency electromagnetic radiation signals in deep space. While single dish radio telescopes convert the electromagnetic ...
A practical key management and distribution system for IPTV conditional access
(2013)
Conditional Access (CA) is widely used by pay-television operators to restrict access to content to authorised subscribers. Commercial CA solutions are available for structured broadcast and Internet Protocol Television ...
Molecular modelling of the Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 6 capsular polysaccharide antigens
(2013)
In this thesis, a systematic study of the structural characterization of the capsular polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae is conducted using Molecular Modelling methods. S.pneumoniae causes invasive pneumococcal ...