Projects

Current

  1. User-centred design, implementation, and evaluation of a virtual clinic system for rural, remote, and underserved communities.
  2. A quantitative characterisation of Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) indurations using hyperspectral imaging to enable automated latent tuberculosis screening.
  3. Designing and developing a mHealth intervention that enables young mobile adults from rural KwaZulu Natal to access and engage with HIV care across their travel destinations in South Africa
  4. Design, implementation, and evaluation of an intelligent end-to-end network slicing system for digital health applications in 5G and beyond networks
  5. Use-centred design and development of a 5G smart ambulance system
  6. Design and Development of an Autoinjector Tracking Device to Integrate with Emergency Service

Completed

  1. Establishing the equivalence of tele-audiology and in-person audiology practice
  2. Automated analysis of digital medical images in cervical cancer screening: A systematic review
  3. Design, implementation, and evaluation of a telehaptics system over a mobile network testbed

Planned

  1. Development of a virtual interactive augmented reality Telemedicine system: Towards the development of smart operating rooms.
  2. Modelling 5G smart hospitals
  3. User-centred design of a Tele-mental Health Virtual Clinic system for rural, remote, and underserved Communities

Funding

The test bed project being implemented with financial assistance of the European Union (EU) (Grant no. DCI-PANAF/2020/420-028), through the African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence (ARISE), pilot programme.

The Virtual clinic for mental health project is being co-funded by the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN).

Other sources of funding

  1. University of Cape Town
  2. Telkom South Africa through the Centres of Excellence Program
  3. SENTECH
  4. National Research Foundation of South Africa
  5. South African Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation through the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI)