This work reports on 23 third year student' s projects in which the user interfaces (UI) were found wanting. We show in which ways we regard the UI to be in error. However, an examination of the available literature on UI ...

Projects, and their success, are vital if organisations are to produce new products and services. The key players in IS projects are the project manager and the project team. This paper discussed ongoing research of two ...

Response surface analysis aims of exploring the behavior of a response function in some region. Some authors (see e.g. [BRU] and [DEV]), have used this approach to get "better" interpretations of the behavior of linear ...

The Advanced Operating Systems (AOS) module is one of the courses offered by the Computer Science Department in its honours program. The module aims are twofold: to enhance students' knowledge in single processor operating ...

The subject of IT outsourcing has received a growing attention recently both by practitioners and researchers. There are a number of critical decisions to be made by a company embarking on outsourcing. These include a ...

INSTAP is a multimedia program to teach Afrikaans at first year university level. The intended audience consists of students who come from non-Afrikaans speaking communities, and hence sound is a very important aspect of ...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the Leaming Model and related concepts. In the context of this paper, the following principles are discussed: • What do we need to learn? • How must we learn it? These two ...

This paper describes the social constructivist theory of learning and how it can be applied to handle the problems of diversity in Information Systems and Computer Science classes. Examples are given on methods that can ...

Information has become a very important asset in most organizations today. For this reason, it is imperative that information and the associated resources are properly protected. Traditionally, information assets were ...

Formal methods have not as yet succeeded in becoming an accepted way to develop software. This paper explores whether a possible reason for this is the complexity of the tools we use, in particular, the programming paradigms. ...