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An Investigation of a Game Generator Tool to Teach Recursion
By: Jecton Anyango
Learning programming is difficult for most students. Particularly, the recursion topic. Although games have been proposed as an alternative instructional media given their motivational impact, their mainstream adoption rate in teaching still...
Evaluating Automated and Hybrid Neural Disambiguation for African Historical Named Entities
By: Jarryd Dunn
Documents detailing African history contain ambiguous names. This is due to people having the same name or being referred to by multiple different names. Thus when searching for or attempting to extract information about a particular person, the...
Investigating Multiple periodicities in User’s Web Search Behaviour to Improve Personalization of Information Retrieval Systems
By: Jivashi Nagar
Web users generally get irrelevant results when they submit an ambiguous and/or under-specified query. Search engines are not able to distinguish the different intents associated with a query. The results provided are generally biased towards...
Enhanced User Services to Improve the Usability of Digital Libraries
THETOOL
By: Hugh Bedford, Dean Williams
There is an abundance of information and research available online, which is ever increasing. Digital libraries provide a central portal to access different types of information but often lack the features to digest and analyse the information...
Mapping South African History
A visualization system that uses concept maps to illustrate information and their relationships.
By: Yash Ramsamy, Laaiqah Hassim
This study aims to evaluate an experimental tool that allows users to create, edit, and visualize digital content and relationships among them using concept maps.
MASH is a web application with two main components: Complex Object Creator and...