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Usability and content verification of a mobile tool to help a deaf person with pharmaceutical instruction
(University of Western Cape, 2014)
This thesis describes a multi-disciplinary collaboration towards iterative development of
a mobile communication tool to support a Deaf person in understanding usage directions
for medication dispensed at a pharmacy. We ...
Mobility management for Wi-Fi infrastructure and mesh networks
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This thesis shows that mobility management protocols for infrastructure Internet may be used in a wireless mesh network environment. In this research Mobile IPv6 and Fast Handover for Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 are successfully ...
Situation-aware routing for wireless mesh networks with mobile nodes
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This thesis demonstrates that a situation-aware algorithm improves quality of service on small mesh networks running BATMAN-adv with some mobile nodes. BATMAN-adv is a proactive mesh routing protocol that counts beacons ...
Inexpensive mobile technologies to empower rural farmers with m-agriculture
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Market information and established communication between seller and buyer play an important role in business activities. This thesis investigates the Transkei area in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa to find out ...
A Mobile Deaf-to-hearing communication aid for medical diagnosis
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Many South African Deaf people use their mobile phones for communication with SMSs yet they would prefer to converse in South African Sign Language. Deaf people with a capital `D' are different from deaf or hard of hearing ...
An analysis of voice over internet protocol in wireless mesh networks
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This thesis presents an analysis of the impact of node mobility on the quality of service for voice over Internet Protocol in wireless mesh networks. Voice traffic was simulated on such a mesh network to analyze the ...
Comparison and evaluation of mass video notification methods used to assist Deaf people
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
In South Africa, Deaf people communicate with one another and the broader community by means of South African Sign Language. The majority of Deaf people who have access to a mobile phone (cell phone) use Short Message ...
An integrated sign language recognition system
(University of Western Cape, 2014)
Research has shown that five parameters are required to recognize any sign language
gesture: hand shape, location, orientation and motion, as well as facial expressions. The
South African Sign Language (SASL) research ...
The use of mobile phones as service-delivery devices in sign language machine translation system
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
This thesis investigates the use of mobile phones as service-delivery devices in a sign language machine translation system. Four sign language visualization methods were evaluated on mobile phones. Three of the methods ...
Video annotation wiki for South African sign language
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
The SASL project at the University of the Western Cape aims at developing a fully automated translation system between English and South African Sign Language (SASL). Three important aspects of this system require SASL ...