Faculty of Computing and Informatics: Recent submissions
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Usage and Security of Examination Modes of Assessment: A Survey of Two Universities in South Western Uganda
(American Journal of Online and Distance Learning, 2021)Introduction: Academic institutions are faced with challenges related to usage and security of existing modes of assessment. Security issues include confidentiality, integrity and availability while usage issues include ... -
Understanding patterns of family support and its role on viral load suppression among youth living with HIV aged 15 to 24 years in southwestern Uganda
(Health Science Reports, 2022)Background: Active family support helps as a buffer against adverse life events associated with antiretroviral therapy (ART) uptake and adherence. There is limited data available to explain how family support shapes and ... -
The Submarine Cable Connection: What should it means for Rural Africa?
(2014-09-02)This paper focuses on the implication of the Indian Ocean Submarine Cable Connection at East African coast to Africa's economies. It looks at the current Wide Area Networks (WAN) technologies. With the connection of the ... -
“The research assistants kept coming to follow me up; I counted myself as a lucky person”: Social support arising from a longitudinal HIV cohort study in Uganda
(PLoS ONE, 2022-01-25)Background: Participation in longitudinal research studies in resource-limited settings often involves frequent interactions with study staff and other participants, as well as receipt of incentives and transportation ... -
The Meanings in the messages: how SMS reminders and real-time adherence monitoring improve antiretroviral therapy adherence in rural Uganda
(AIDS, 2016)Objective: To understand how a pilot intervention combining SMS reminders with real-time adherence monitoring improved adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) for adults initiating treatment in rural Uganda. Design: ... -
Ry/Rk-Lex: A Computational Lexicon for Runyankore and Rukiga Languages
(In Swedish Language Technology Conference and NLP4CALL, 2021)Current research in computational linguistics and NLP requires the existence of language resources. Whereas these resources are available for only a few well-resourced languages, there are many languages that have been ... -
Reuse and Maintenance Practices among Divergent Forks in Three Software Ecosystems
(Empirical Software Engineering, 2022)With the rise of social coding platforms that rely on distributed version control systems, software reuse is also on the rise. Many software developers leverage this reuse by creating variants through forking, to account ... -
Mobile Phone-based Multimedia Application Could Improve Maternal Health in Rural Southwestern Uganda: Mixed Methods Study
(Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2020)Background: Reducing maternal and infant mortality rates remains challenging. Illiteracy, lack of reliable information, long distances to health centers continue to limit access to quality maternal healthcare in Uganda. ... -
Mobile Health Technologies could enhance Public Private Mix for Tuberculosis care in Rural Southwestern Uganda: Qualitative Findings
(Research square, 2021-12-01)Background: Despite some global progress in the implementation of the public-private mix for Tuberculosis care, the engagement of private healthcare providers remains wanting especially in high incidence countries such as ... -
Studying android app popularity by cross-linking github and google play store
(SANER, 2019)The incredible success of the mobile App economy has been attracting software developers hoping for new or repeated success. Surviving in the fierce competitive App market involves in part planning ahead of time for the ... -
Model for context-fitting mobile services for monitoring delivery of Public health services
(American Journal of Information, Data and Knowledge Management, 2021)Purpose: The study aimed at establishing the contextual factors affecting performance of mobile services for monitoring delivery of public health services in Uganda. Methodology: The study used a qualitative research ... -
Maternal health-related barriers and the potentials of mobile health technologies:Qualitative findings from a pilot randomized controlled trial in rural Southwestern Uganda:
(Wolters Kluwer - Medknow, 2020-07-30)Background: Maternal mortality rate remains unacceptably high in Uganda. In‑depth evidence about the barriers to access and utilization of maternal health services specifically among the rural illiterate pregnant women ... -
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED ISSUES IN SEXUAL HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS EDUCATION
(EJISDC, 2012)Literature on the usefulness of IT-assisted HIV/AIDS interventions especially in the African setting is scarce. This leaves little to nothing known about the benefits of IT-assisted HIV interventions from the experience ... -
Improving Recognition Performance in Multiple Enrollment Based Fingerprint Recognition Systems
(2015)Multiple enrollment based fingerprint recognition systems have for long been known for good recognition accuracies. They however suffer poor matching speeds, a lot of memory consumption and the recognition accuracies are ... -
Ethical Questions in Medical Electronic Adherence Monitoring
(Journal of general internal medicine, 2016)Electronic adherence monitors (EAMs) record and report an array of health behaviors, ranging from taking daily medications to wearing medical devices. EAMs are utilized in research worldwide and are being investigated for ... -
Establishing the Influences of Cardinal Virtues on Employees’ Cyber Security Ethical Behavior in the Banking Sector in Uganda
(European Journal of Technology, 2022)Purpose: Cyber security threats emanating from employees’ incorrect behavior have escalated in the banking sector. Yet formal policies and technical solutions have failed to solve the problem. Virtue ethics may be a method ... -
Electronic Adherence Monitoring May Facilitate Intentional HIV Status Disclosure Among People Living with HIV in Rural Southwestern Uganda
(AIDS and Behavior, 2021-01-02)HIV status disclosure remains one of the major challenges to effective HIV prevention. Given the complexities and low rates of disclosure, new innovative strategies are needed. Since electronic adherence monitoring (EAM) ... -
Digital monitoring technologies could enhance tuberculosis medication adherence in Uganda: Mixed methods study
(Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases, 2019)Background: Effective administration of tuberculosis therapy remains challenging. The recommended strategy of direct observed therapy is challenging and its implementation has been limited in many settings. Digital adherence ... -
Digital adherence technologies for the management of tuberculosis therapy: mapping the landscape and research priorities
(BMJ Global Health, 2018)Poor medication adherence may increase rates of loss to follow-up, disease relapse and drug resistance for individuals with active tuberculosis (TB). While TB programmes have historically used directly observed therapy ... -
Evaluation of screening parameters and machine learning models for the prediction of neonatal sepsis: A systematic review
(Research square, 2022)About 2.9 million neonates die every year worldwide, and most of these deaths occur in low-resource settings. Neonatal sepsis occurs when there is a bacterial invasion in the bloodstream; the immune system begins a systemic ...
