Faculty of Computing and Informatics: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 Controlled Pre-Post Evaluation of a Computer-based HIV/AIDS Education on Students’ Sexual Behaviors, Knowledge and Attitudes
(Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2012)Unlike traditional approaches to sexuality and HIV education which can be constrained by the sensitive nature of the subject, Information Technology (IT) can be an innovative teaching tool that can be used to educate people ... -
Survey of Crowd Detection Algorithms using Wireless Sensor Networks: A Case of People Crowds
(International Journal of Computer Applications, 2019-01)In this paper a survey is carried out on crowd detection algorithms, highlighting challenges and gaps vis-a-avis people crowd detection. The research identifies some of the key capabilities considered invaluable in effective ... -
Ethical Questions in Medical Electronic Adherence Monitoring
(Journal of general internal medicine, 2015-09-10)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 ... -
Ugandan Study Participants Experience Electronic Monitoring of Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence as Welcomed Pressure to Adhere
(AIDS and Behavior, 2018-06-20)Many new technologies monitor patients’ and study participants’ medical adherence. Some have cautioned that these devices transgress personal autonomy and ethics. But do they? This qualitative study explored how Ugandan ...