Showcase 2020

A showcase of the research and software development projects of our third year BCom and BSc finalists, Masters and PhD students.

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Project Showcase

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An Investigation of a Game Generator Tool to Teach Recursion

By: Jecton Anyango

Learning programming is difficult for most students leading to high failure rates. Particularly, the recursion topic. Although games have been proposed given their motivational impact, developing educational games is difficult, expensive and time...

CS PhD Hasso Plattner Institute Digital Libraries

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Automatic Knowledge Discovery and Evolution
An Ontology for Supporting Knowledge Discovery and Evolution

By: Tezira Wanyana

Knowledge Discovery and Evolution (KDE) is of interest to a broad array of researchers from both Philosophy of Science (PoS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR), Machine Learning and Data...

CS PhD Hasso Plattner Institute

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IsiXhosa weather forecast generation

By: Zola Mahlaza

Building natural language generation systems for Nguni languages is difficult because traditional realisation solutions are incompatible and current extensions are unsuitable for general-purpose use. In this work, I will showcasing a...

CS PhD Knowledge Engineering

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Exploring Virtual Support for FTD Parents in Bandwidth-constrained Communities

By: Sarah Dsane

Several human computer interaction (HCI) research have informed the design of maternal health interventions in low-resourced communities. However, such efforts have failed to specifically design resources to highlight the potential window of...

CS PhD Hasso Plattner Institute Human Computer Interaction

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Cost-aware Internet Security Decision Model

By: Enock Mbewe

The current implementation of Internet Security services leaves users, especially those with limited computing skills, out of the security decision-making process. This is because security configuration parameters are often either hidden from the...

CS PhD Hasso Plattner Institute

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Data-driven Authoring of Large-scale Ecosystems

By: Konrad Kapp

In computer graphics populating a large-scale natural scene with plants in a fashion that both reflects the complex interrelationships and diversity present in real ecosystems and is computationally efficient enough to support iterative authoring...

CS PhD