Author:Adebesin, F; Kotzé, Paula; Gelderblom, HDate:Oct 2010Usability, which is generally defined in terms of application effectiveness, efficiency and user satisfaction, is one of the focus areas of human-computer interaction (HCI). Accessibility is the design of systems that can be perceived, ...Read more
Author:Padayachee, I; Kotzé, Paula; Van der Merwe, ADate:2011The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web has revolutionised practices in business, government, health, and education amongst others. In education, the Internet and World Wide Web opened new doors for teaching and learning, thereby ...Read more
Author:Adebesin, F; Kotzé, PaulaDate:Jun 2012The Digital Doorway (DD) is a joint initiative between the South African Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Meraka Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The DD is a non-standard computer system ...Read more
Author:Adebesin, F; Kotzé, Paula; Gelderblom, HDate:Sep 2011The usability and accessibility of interactive system interfaces, as well as their evaluation constitutes important focus areas of human-computer interaction (HCI). One of the families of evaluation methods that can be used to assess the ...Read more
Author:Chelule, E; Herselman, Martha E; Van Greunen, DDate:Jul 2010This paper presents the results of a usability study conducted on South African B2C bricks-and-clicks retailers' e-commerce websites. The study employed two evaluation techniques namely; user evaluation and heuristic evaluation (HE). The ...Read more
Author:Adebesin, TFDate:Mar 2011The Digital Doorway (DD) is a non-standard computer system deployed to promote computer literacy amongst underprivileged communities in South Africa. Since its inception there has been no usability evaluation of the software installed on the ...Read more
Author:Greeff, M; Coetzee, L; Pistorius, MDate:Oct 2008One of the most prominent problems that persons with disabilities face in South Africa, is access to relevant disability related information. To address this need the South African National Accessibility Portal (NAP Portal) was developed, ...Read more
Author:Easton, H; Nakene, M; Naidoo, Soogandhree; Kafidi, PLDate:Nov 2003South Africa is a developing country with diverse multi-cultural communities, eleven official languages and various infrastructure challenges. Enabling e-government is herefore considered a unique problem. A critical approach in developing a ...Read more