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Edith Luhanga is a lecturer in computer science, specializing in ubiquitous computing applications and human-computer interactions.Her work focuses on developing monitoring and personalised systems for supporting health, wellbeing and personal learning on ubiquitous devices such as smartphones, wearables and Internet-of-things devices. She is especially interested in behaviour change and how behavioural theory and user interface/interactions can be designed to support behaviour reflection and change.Her most recent work has included research on redesigned smartphone notifications for supporting OS update compliance, co-supervising research on the use of machine learning for disease outbreak prediction, supervising work on developing a mobile-based expert systems for pregnancy support in the Tanzanian context and smartphone games for teaching about social issues to children.
She serves as the deputy project leader for the VLIR-UOS P5 project under the school and is a member of various institutional committees including the Nelson Mandela week organising committee, where she organises the STEM workshop for girls and science exhibition.
Academic qualifications
- Doctor of Engineering in Information Science (ubiquitous computing systems) - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (2018
- MSc in Advanced computing science –University of Nottingham, UK (2011)
- BEng (Hons) in Electronic and Computer Engineering - University of Nottingham, UK (2010)
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2019:
- Nyambo, D. G., Luhanga, E. T., Yonah, Z. O., & Mujibi, F. D. (2019). Application of Multiple Unsupervised Models to Validate Clusters Robustness in Characterizing Smallholder Dairy Farmers. The Scientific World Journal, 2019. 2018:
- Ndibwile, J.D., Luhanga, E.T., Fall, D., Miyamoto, D. and Kadobayashi, Y., 2018. A Comparative Study of Smartphone User Security Perception and Preference towards Redesigned Security Notifications (African Conference for Human-Computer Interaction, AfriCHI 2018, proceedings under publication, to be indexed).
- Ndibwile, J.D., Luhanga, E.T., Fall, D. Miyamoto, D. and Kadobayashi, Y., 2018. Smart4Gap: Factors that Influence Smartphone Security Decisions in Developing and Developed Co untries. In Proceedings of the 2018 10th International Conference on Information Management and Engineering (ICIME 2018). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3285957.3285980
- Mosha, N.F. and Luhanga, E.T., 2018, Factors that hinder the sustainability and effectiveness of Telecentres for disseminating agricultural information among farmers in rural areas in Tanzania: The case of Moshi Rural District in Kilimanjaro Region (presented at 4th IAALD-Africa Conference, June 2018, journal submission being prepared). Luhanga, E.T., Hippocrate, A.A.E., Suwa, H., Arakawa, Y. and Yasumoto, K., 2018. Identifying and Evaluating User Requirements for Smartphone Group Fitness Applications. IEEE Access, 6, pp.3256-3269. 2017:
- Hippocrate, A.A.E., Luhanga, E.T., Masashi, T., Watanabe, K. and Yasumoto, K., 2017, September. Smart gyms need smart mirrors: design of a smart gym concept through contextual inquiry. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 658-661). ACM.
- Luhanga, E.T., Hippocrate, A.A.E., Arakawa, Y. and Yasumoto, K., 2017, June. Factors that Affect Success in Group Behavior Change Applications. In Behavioral Change and Social System, Vol. 2, (行動変容と社会システム vol.2). IPSJ (workshop presentation). 2016:
- Luhanga, E.T., Hippocrate, A.A.E., Suwa, H., Arakawa, Y. and Yasumoto, K., 2016, October. Happyinu: exploring how to use games and extrinsic rewards for consistent food tracking behavior. In Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU), 2016 Ninth International Conference on (pp. 1-7). IEEE.
- Luhanga, E.T., Hippocrate, A.A.E., Suwa, H., Arakawa, Y. and Yasumoto, K., 2016, September. Towards proactive food diaries: a participatory design study. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct (pp. 1263-1266). ACM. 2015:
- Luhanga, E.T., 2015, September. Evaluating effectiveness of stimulus control, time management and self-reward for weight loss behavior change. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 441-446). ACM. (doctoral school presentation) 2014:
- Luhanga, E.T. and Luhanga, M.L., 2014. A pyramid algorithm for the Haar discrete wavelet packet transform. Global Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences, 20(2), pp.127-134.
Current Masters’ Students
- Germinous George
- Siti Hilal
- Mdoe Mwamnyange
- Deodatus Gindu
- Erick Massawe
- Suzan Misholi
- Current PhD students (co-supervisor)
- Judith Leo
- Devotha Nyambo
- Taban Habibu
- Juliana Kamaghe
- Lawrence Nehemiah
Previous Masters’ students (co-supervisor)
Current Posts
- Member, Branding and communication strategy development task force February 2019 – present
- Member, Senate teaching and learning committee December 2018 - present
- Member, Research Data Management Policy Development Task Force June 2018 – present
- Member, Institutional strengthening subproject (VLIR-UOS) May 2018 – present
- Member, Institutional Repository Policy Development Task Force June 2018 – present
- Deputy Project Leader, Institutional Strengthening via ICT and Library (VLIR-UOS) June 2012 – Sept. 2013
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