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- research-articleOctober 2008
Usability context analysis for virtual reality training in South African mines
SAICSIT '08: Proceedings of the 2008 annual research conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on IT research in developing countries: riding the wave of technologyPages 276–285https://doi.org/10.1145/1456659.1456691The usability of any tool or system has to be viewed in terms of the context in which it is used, and its appropriateness to that context. According to the ISO definition of usability, the context of use includes the users, tasks, equipment (hardware, ...
- research-articleOctober 2008
e-Government: living up to the challenge of culture context
SAICSIT '08: Proceedings of the 2008 annual research conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on IT research in developing countries: riding the wave of technologyPages 246–256https://doi.org/10.1145/1456659.1456688e-Government is a global technology transfer taking designs from one context into a different context. This paper finds that the context of design inscribed into e-Government systems in both explicit and implicit ways can produce a mismatch with the ...
- research-articleOctober 2008
Automatic marking with Sakai
SAICSIT '08: Proceedings of the 2008 annual research conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on IT research in developing countries: riding the wave of technologyPages 229–236https://doi.org/10.1145/1456659.1456686Large student numbers often drive teaching staff to consider greater degrees of automation of assessment activities. In introductory Computer Science classes - where submitted programs need to repeatedly be compiled, executed and tested -automation is ...
- research-articleOctober 2008
Predicting technology acceptance and adoption by the elderly: a qualitative study
SAICSIT '08: Proceedings of the 2008 annual research conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on IT research in developing countries: riding the wave of technologyPages 210–219https://doi.org/10.1145/1456659.1456684Technology adoption has been studied from a variety of perspectives. Information systems, Sociology and Human-Computer Interaction researchers have come up with various models incorporating factors and phases to predict adoption that, in turn, will lead ...
- research-articleOctober 2008
Maintaining customer profiles in an e-commerce environment
SAICSIT '08: Proceedings of the 2008 annual research conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on IT research in developing countries: riding the wave of technologyPages 169–179https://doi.org/10.1145/1456659.1456679Recent studies have indicated an increase in customer profiling techniques used by e-commerce businesses. E-commerce businesses are creating, maintaining and utilising customer profiles to assist in personalisation. Personalisation can help improve ...
- research-articleOctober 2008
Scientific computing using virtual high-performance computing: a case study using the Amazon elastic computing cloud
SAICSIT '08: Proceedings of the 2008 annual research conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on IT research in developing countries: riding the wave of technologyPages 94–103https://doi.org/10.1145/1456659.1456671High-performance computing systems are important in scientific computing. Clusters of computer systems --- which range greatly in size --- are a common architecture for high-performance computing. Small, dedicated clusters are affordable and cost-...
- research-articleOctober 2008
Do online buying behaviour and attitudes to web personalization vary by age group?
SAICSIT '08: Proceedings of the 2008 annual research conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on IT research in developing countries: riding the wave of technologyPages 86–93https://doi.org/10.1145/1456659.1456670A study of 821 South African Internet users was undertaken to assess attitudes towards the personalization of online content, concerns about privacy, and willingness to provide explicit personal information and to allow implicit gathering of web usage ...
- research-articleOctober 2008
Designing technology for young children: what we can learn from theories of cognitive development
SAICSIT '08: Proceedings of the 2008 annual research conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on IT research in developing countries: riding the wave of technologyPages 66–75https://doi.org/10.1145/1456659.1456668The majority of guidelines and principles for design of technology are aimed at products for adults. The limited guidelines available for design of young children's technology do not focus sufficiently on age-related requirements or they offer high-...
- research-articleOctober 2008
Utilising the living labs approach in the design of a digital platform for SINGA
SAICSIT '08: Proceedings of the 2008 annual research conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists on IT research in developing countries: riding the wave of technologyPages 35–40https://doi.org/10.1145/1456659.1456664Vulnerable children in Africa fail to access basic social services and people they need to advance in life because they are not empowered enough to do so and have little information to their benefit. This paper describes the development of SINGA which ...
