School of Computing and informatics: Recent submissions
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Strengthening Online Education Approaches in Institutions of Higher Learning
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023-05-15)Online, distance, and eLearning (ODeL) continue to gain recognition as a mandatory component of delivery of education in institutions of higher learning (IHL) around the world following the outbreak of coronavirus disease ... -
PolitiKweli: A Swahili-English Code-switched Twitter Political Misinformation Classification Dataset
(Deep Learning Indaba 2023, 2023-08-30)In the age of freedom of speech, users of the social media platform Twitter post millions of messages per day. These messages are not always fact-checked resulting in misinformation which is false or misleading news. ... -
Enhancing students’ biology learning by using augmented reality as a learning supplement
(SAGE Publications, 2020-07)The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of augmented reality (AR) technology on students’ learning outcomes (measured according to Bloom’s cognitive levels) and attitude toward biology. The print book was ... -
Effects of tangrams on learning engagement and achievement: Case of preschool learners
(Journal of Computer Assisted Learning ,wiley., 2020-08)The purpose of this research was to compare the effectiveness of physical and virtual tangrams on preschool children's learning engagement and achievement. Children listened to an e‐storybook narration and solved puzzles ... -
Framework for Technology-Enriched Active Class Learning of Physics in Secondary Schools in Kenya
(IGI Global, 2021)Active learning transforms the learning process and activities from tutor focused to learner-cantered and is driven by the learner's learning ability. In other words, active learning provides an opportunity for self-directed ... -
Detecting Remote Access Network Attacks Using Supervised Machine Learning Methods
(Modern Education and Computer Science Press, 2023-04-01)Remote access technologies encrypt data to enforce policies and ensure protection. Attackers leverage such techniques to launch carefully crafted evasion attacks introducing malware and other unwanted traffic to the internal ... -
A Review of Smartphone as an Office: Security Risks and Mitigation Measures
(setjournal.com, 2023-04-24)Smartphones have become the most popular mode of communication as well as a novel mode of work, allowing users to work from anywhere and increasing their efficiency and responsiveness. However, the flexibility and convenience ... -
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(Cornell University, 2022)Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for underresourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged that ... -
Phonemic Representation and Transcription for Speech to Text Applications for Under-resourced Indigenous African Languages: The Case of Kiswahili
(arxiv.org, 2022)Building automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is a challenging task, especially for under resourced languages that need to construct corpora nearly from scratch and lack sufficient training data. It has emerged ... -
A Software Agent for Vehicle Driver Modeling
(IEEE, 2019)The world is experiencing a paradigm shift towards intelligent agents in form of machine learning for modeling any given task or process. Human vehicle drivers are agents that operate under stochastic environments, full ... -
Social engineering based cyber-attacks in kenya
(IEEE, 2020)Cybersecurity is a major challenge especially as the world transitions to the fourth industrial revolution. Cybercriminals are always perceived to be using complex sophisticated mechanisms to launch attacks to information ... -
Fostering innovation and intercultural exchange during a global pandemic: Lessons learned from a virtual design thinking challenge in Nepal
(Springer, Cham, 2021)Countries in the majority world are widely argued to be most severely affected by the corona pandemic. To fight the outbreak of the virus and reduce risks of economic hardships and starvation these countries need an ability ... -
KenSwQuAD – A Question Answering Dataset for Swahili Low Resource Language
(arxiv.org, 2022)This research developed a Kencorpus Swahili Question Answering Dataset KenSwQuAD from raw data of Swahili language, which is a low resource language predominantly spoken in Eastern African and also has speakers in other ... -
Kencorpus: A Kenyan Language Corpus of Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya for Natural Language Processing Tasks
(arxiv.org, 2022)Indigenous African languages are categorized as under-served in Artificial Intelligence and suffer poor digital inclusivity and information access. The challenge has been how to use machine learning and deep learning models ... -
Online Assessment and Examinations practices at the eCampus of Maseno University in Response to COVID 19 lockdown
(EasyChair, 2022)The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an increasing demand for online learning and led to the demand for the offer of online assessment at Maseno university. Prior to the COVID19 pandemic the institution had put in place measures ... -
Building Text and Speech Datasets for Low Resourced Languages: A Case of Languages in East Africa
(AfricaNLP, 2022)Africa has over 2000 languages; however, those languages are not well repre sented in the existing Natural Language Processing ecosystem. African languages lack essential digital resources to be engaged effectively in the ... -
Proposing Parameters for Evaluating Sustainability of mHealth Systems in Developing Countries.
(Research gate, 2018)The exponential rise in global healthcare challenges; the rise in morbidity and mortality, especially in developing countries have compelled stakeholders to explore alternative ways of overcoming the crisis. Guided by the ... -
Driver Behaviour Profiling Using Dynamic Bayesian Network
(Modern Education and Computer Science, 2018)In the recent past, there has been a rapid increase in the number of vehicles and diversification of road networks worldwide. The biggest challenge now lies on how to monitor and analyse behaviours of vehicle drivers ... -
Challenges facing digitization projects in kenya: Case of implementation of national land information management system
(IJTS, 2018)Purpose: Technology has been the avenues used to bridge various challenges public service delivery. The government of Kenya has invested heavily in land digitization process in order to eradicate the perennial challenges ... -
Towards Logically Progressive Dialog for Future TODS to Serve in Complex Domains
(International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 2019)Complex domains demand task-oriented dialog system (TODS) to be able to reason and engage with humans in dialog and in information retrieval. This may require contemporary dialog systems to have improved conversation ...