Conference Papers - Vaal Triangle Campus
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Location based games as the bridge between capstone students, junior students and the public
(IEEE, 2018)This paper reviews recent attempts by researchers at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) to increase the level of interaction between students, faculty and industry stakeholders by creating an alternate reality game (ARG) ... -
Aligning student and educator capstone project preferences algorithmically
(IEEE, 2018)This paper reviews recent attempts by researchers at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) to increase the level of student engagement in a final year capstone project by allowing for a greater level of autonomy in project ... -
Interactive serious games as electronic engineering capstone projects
(IEEE, 2018)Capstone projects are projects that engineering students undertake in their final year of study. The capstone project gives the student the opportunity to showcase what she has learned during her studies, and gives the ... -
Designing and developing a narrative driven serious game for teaching information theory
(IEEE, 2018)A serious game called "Codebreakers" was developed and designed for a fourth year Telecommunications module at the University of Johannesburg. The goal of the game was to assist students to prepare for tests. The game was ... -
Reflective team meetings: a learning experience for first-year engineering students in joint projects
(IEEE, 2018)The aim of this research was to report on reflective team meetings as a learning experience for first-year engineering students in joint projects. To some extent, working in joint projects is new to first-year students ... -
Identifying elements of social identity development for mathematics teachers in the Western Cape, South Africa for professional online engagement
(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2014)This paper reports on the analyses of a custom-made questionnaire distributed to systematic random selected teachers in 179 schools in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. The purpose of the analysis was to enquire ... -
FaceFunda: a taxi ride with teacher-students towards social media literacy in the rural Eastern Cape Province of South Africa
(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2014)This paper explores and describes how teacher-students from rural communities in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, enrolled for a BEd Honours programme, experienced social media support to assist and guide them to compile ... -
A critical systems perspective on research methodology for research in e-learning in information systems classes
(ISSS, 2014)The aim of this paper is to provide a critical systems thinking perspective on e-learning research in information systems classrooms. Many higher education practitioners are under pressure from their institutions to do ... -
An HCI Approach to Translating a Paper-based Registration Form into an Electronic Web Form: Individual Tax Registration
(IBIMA, 2014)This research paper aims to gain a better understanding on the concepts of Human-computer interaction (HCI) in general and the application of HCI principles in this field. This paper also aims to gain a better understanding ... -
Design of an e-Registration Prototype Using HCI Principles: With Specific Reference to Tax Registration
(IBIMA, 2014)This paper introduces an initial web form prototype for first-time taxpayer registration in South Africa. At present no online tax registration system is currently available. The researcher would like to stress the fact ... -
Number pronunciation in a multilingual environment and implications for an ASR system
(PRASA, 2014)The purpose of this paper is to address the challenges and describe step-by-step solutions faced when developing an automatic speech recognition system in multilingual societies. We give a brief statistical analysis of the ... -
Pull-Process-Push: Can a Tweaked Algorithm Improve Database Performance Significantly?
(Czech institute of academic education z.s, 2014)Design science research has two essential processes, design and evaluation, supported by various approaches. Two of these activities, namely problem identification and evaluation, require qualitative data to be gathered ... -
Demonstrating an interpretive data collection and analysis process for a DSR project
(Czech institute of academic education z.s, 2014)Design science research has two essential processes, design and evaluation, supported by various approaches. Two of these activities, namely problem identification and evaluation, require qualitative data to be gathered ... -
A target Approximation Intonation Model for Yorùbá TTS
(ISCA, 2014)A complete intonation model based on quantitative target approximation is described for Yorùbá text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis. This model is evaluated analytically and perceptually and compared to a fundamental frequency ... -
The Challenge: Quality Enhancement in Teaching– How do We Know We are Making Progress?
(IACSIT Press, 2014)In 2014 the Council for Higher Education in South Africa launched a national Quality Enhancement Project (QEP). The aim of the project is to improve student success both at individual Higher Education Institutions and in ... -
Exploring Africa’s democratic transitions and economic development policy: South African and Nigerian experiences
(SAAPAM, 2014)This paper contends that the new “Africa Rising Narrative” will net lead to the majority of African citizens attaining prosperity under the current democratic transition. this paper argues that Africa lacks appropriate ... -
Municipal resources for enhancing communication and Information services
(SAAPAM, 2014)This paper examines the norms and standards for using municipal resources. Managing resources forms part of internal procedures. the paper specifically analysis the strategies implemented for upholding municipal employees ... -
Implications of residential electricity theft, detection and enforcement: Corruption of consumers and agents
(SAAPAM, 2014)This paper analyses the economic impact of residential electricity theft. Theft and corruption are common in electricity distribution systems worldwide. Electricity theft form part of the revenue protection objectives in ... -
Public service (mis)management of the gifts: travesty to fostering integrity and preventing corruption
(SAAPAM, 2014)This paper seeks to analyse South Africa’s regulatory frameworks relating to the receipt of gifts in the Public Service in order to assess the mechanisms for management of this practice in Sedibeng District Municipality ... -
The pursuit of African continental governance: the stone that the builders "forgot"
(SAAPAM, 2014)The African Union is an inter-governmental arrangement aimed at fostering democratic ideals and development on the African continent. The metamorphosis of inter-governmental arrangements has led to the need for the inclusion ...
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