Faculty of Computing and Informatics: Recent submissions
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Dependence on Digital Medicine in Resource-Limited Settings
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Contextual Mediators influencing the Effectiveness of Behavioural Change Interventions: A Case of HIV/AIDS Prevention Behaviours
(Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2012)Background: Although Uganda had recorded declines in HIV infection rates around 1990’s, it is argued that HIV/AIDS risk sexual behavior, especially among the youth, started increasing again from early 2000. School-based ... -
Code Authorship and Fault-proneness of Open-Source Android Applications : An Empirical Study
(In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering, 2017-11-08)Context: In recent years, many research studies have shown how human factors play a significant role in the quality of software components. Code authorship metrics have been introduced to establish a chain of responsibility ... -
Clone-Based Variability Management in the Android Ecosystem
(2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2018)Mobile app developers often need to create variants to account for different customer segments, payment models or functionalities. A common strategy is to clone (or fork) an existing app and then adapt it to new requirements. ... -
An algorithm to detect overlapping red blood cells for sickle cell disease diagnosis
(IET Image Processing, 2022)In Africa, Uganda is among the countries with a high number of babies (20,000 babies) born with sickle cell, contributing between 6.8% of the children born with sickle cell every year worldwide and approximately 4.5% of ... -
A mobile phone-based multimedia intervention to support maternal health is acceptable and feasible among illiterate pregnant women in Uganda: Qualitative findings from a pilot randomized controlled trial
(Digital Health, 2021)Background: Uganda’s maternal mortality rate remains unacceptably high. Mobile phones can potentially provide affordable means of accessing maternal health services even among the otherwise hard-to-reach populations. ... -
A review of privacy and usability issues in mobile health systems: Role of external factors
(Health informatics journal, 2019)The increased penetration of mobile devices has created opportunities in the health sector and led to emerging of mobile health systems. As much as the mobile health systems have registered tremendous progress, they have ... -
A review of mobile health interventions for public private mix in tuberculosis care
(Internet Interventions, 2021-06-16)Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the use of mobile health (mHealth) technologies as emerging opportunities to closing the gaps in Tuberculosis (TB) care through enhancing Public Private Mix (PPM). ... -
Can We Find Stable Alternatives For Unstable Eclipse Interfaces?
(International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), 2016-05-24)The Eclipse framework is a popular and widely adopted framework that has been evolving for over a decade. Like many other evolving software systems, the Eclipse framework provides both stable and supported interfaces (APIs) ... -
Barriers and Motivators of Private Hospitals’ Engagement in Tuberculosis Care in Uganda
(Global Implementation Research and Applications, 2021-11-08)The involvement of private hospitals in Tuberculosis care in Uganda is still limited. There is a lack of literature about the barriers and motivators to private hospitals’ engagement in Tuberculosis care in Uganda. To ... -
Understanding Patterns of Social Support and Their Relationship to an ART Adherence Intervention Among Adults in Rural Southwestern Uganda
(open access at Springerlink.com, 2006-09-26)Abstract SMS is a widely used technology globally and may also improve ART adherence, yet SMS notifications to social supporters following real-time detection of missed doses showed no clear benefit in a recent pilot ... -
Resilience after withdrawing a technology-based medication adherence support intervention from people living with HIV in rural Uganda
(Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-01-09)Technology-based interventions for behavior change, such as adherence monitors and SMS text messages, can improve adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy. It is unclear, however, how the effects of such interventions are ... -
Issues Affecting Health Research Collaborations based on Cloud Computing
(International Journal of New Technology and Research (IJNTR), 2018-09-09)Research in science and technology is multifaceted with data sharing as a crucial issue among others. The issues are prevalent in collaboration based setups with significant interest in public health and medical where ... -
Code Authorship and Fault-proneness of Open-Source Android Applications : An Empirical Study
(International Conference on Predictive Models and Data Analytics in Software Engineering, 2020-08-28)Context: In recent years, many research studies have shown how human factors play a significant role in the quality of software components. Code authorship metrics have been introduced to establish a chain of responsibility ... -
Eclipse API usage: the good and the bad
(Software Quality Journal, 2013-10-01)Today, when constructing software systems, many developers build their systems on top of frameworks. Eclipse is such a framework that has been in existence for over a decade. Like many other evolving software systems, the ... -
How Stable Are Eclipse Application Framework Internal Interfaces?
(In 2019 IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER) (pp. 117-127). IEEE., 2019)Eclipse framework provides two interfaces: stable interfaces (APIs) and unstable interfaces (non-APIs). Despite the non-APIs being discouraged and unsupported, their usage is not uncommon. Previous studies showed that ... -
Survival of Eclipse Third-party Plug-ins
(International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2012)Today numerous software systems are being developed on top of frameworks. In this study, we analyzed the survival of 467 Eclipse third-party plug-ins altogether having 1,447 versions. We classify these plug-ins into two ... -
Combined Feature Level and Score Level Fusion Gabor Filter-Based Multiple Enrollment Fingerprint Recognition
(International conference on Signal Processing, Communication, Power and Embedded System, 2016)Minutiae-based fingerprint matching methods suffer difficulty in automatically extracting all minutiae points due to failure to detect the complete ridge structures of a fingerprint, as well as describing all the local ... -
An Empirical Study of the Evolution of Eclipse Third-party Plug-ins
(International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE), 2010-09)Since the inception of Lehman's software evolution laws in the early 1970s, they have attracted significant attention from the research community. However, to our knowledge, no study of applicability of these laws on the ... -
Design of multiple enrollment based fingerprint recognition systems
(2017)Using multiple enrollment can improve recognition performance in fingerprint recognition systems; but there are several technical and operational challenges to implementing multiple enrollment based fingerprint recognition ...
