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Mobile media distribution in developing contexts
(2011)
There are a growing number of mobile phones being used in developing contexts, such as Africa. A large percentage of these phones have the capability to take photographs and transmit them freely using Bluetooth. In order ...
Supporting NGO intermediation with internet systems : comparing mobile and web examples for reaching low income urban youth of Cape Town
(2014)
Intermediaries are necessary to overcome challenges of Internet use for many users in the developing world. However the need for co-presence with intermediaries can be inconvenient for beneficiaries, and the process is ...
A parallel multidimensional weighted histogram analysis method
(2014)
The Weighted Histogram Analysis Method (WHAM) is a technique used to calculate free energy from molecular simulation data. WHAM recombines biased distributions of samples from multiple Umbrella Sampling simulations to yield ...
Participatory cloud computing : the community cloud management protocol
(2014)
This thesis work takes an investigative approach into developing a middleware solution for managing services in a community cloud computing infrastructure pre-dominantly made of interconnected low power wireless devices. ...
A workflow for geocoding South African addresses
(2015)
There are many industries that have long been utilizing Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for spatial analysis. In many parts of the world, it has gained less popularity because of inaccurate geocoding methods and a ...
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 ...
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 ...