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Enabling anonymous crime reporting on mobile phones in the developing world
(2013)
Various campaigns indicate that a need exists for a convenient and anonymous crime reporting framework for the context of the developing world. In this thesis a contribution is made by means of a framework that facilitates ...
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 ...
Evaluation of the usability and usefulness of automatic speech recognition among users in South Africa
(2011)
An automatic speech recognition (ASR) system is a software application which recognizes human speech, processes it as input, and displays a text version of the speech as output or uses the input as commands for another ...
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 ...
Uncertain input estimation with application to Kalman tracking
(2011)
Many motion tracking systems average and integrate
tracking measurements over a period of time in order to reduce the effects of device noise, external
noise and other disturbances. The target (user) is likely to be ...
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 ...
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 ...