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Using eye-tracking technology and website user data, researchers can better understand user experience of apps and websites, to help companies and other organisations design more effective interfaces.
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More than half of South Africans do not play sports or exercise regularly. A new UP institute will address the problem by supporting healthy, active lifestyles through research.
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More than half of South Africans do not play sports or exercise regularly. A new UP institute will address the problem by supporting healthy, active lifestyles through research.
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South Africa faces four epidemics - Infectious diseases (especially HIV/AIDS and TB), non-communicable diseases (especially diabetes and cardiovascular diseases), high levels of violence and injury, and mother and child illness and death.
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The Department of Family Medicine at the University of Pretoria has created a community-orientated primary care (COPC) model for today's South Africa. 'COPC is a geographically-based, collaborative approach to health that begins with individuals and families in their homes,' explains research lead, Professor Jannie Hugo.
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Mobile technology has taken the world by storm. These days, it seems there is an app for almost anything you can think of – from apps that remind you to drink enough water throughout the day, to more complicated ones that can calculate how many calories you burn while exercising, or help you to decide which course to study.
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