Faculty of Computing and Informatics: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ...