STUDY OF MOBILE LEARNING COURSE CONTENT APPLICATION AS A REVISION TOOL

Nowadays, mobile phones technologies are being utilized in the education field as a new electronic learning (e-learning) in transferring the knowledge to the learners. The combination of mobile phones technologies’ elements has influenced the way students learn, increase their performance and change the study environment. Mobile learning (m-learning) can overcome the limitation of the locations and times taken place for learners’ learning activities. This study aims to fulfil three main objectives; to design a suitable model that can be used to develop mobile learning course content application as a revision tool; to develop mobile learning course content application as a revision tool for System Analysis and Design (SAD) course called Mobile System Analysis and Design (MOSAD); to evaluate the effectiveness and usability of the developed application. The development of MOSAD application has taken several aspects into considerations such as learning theories, elements of mobile technologies and mobile learning development principles. This will ease the learners in using the developed application and giving the learners understanding of the topic discussed in the application. The developed application adopted ADDIE methodology into the MOSAD Life Cycle, as the Instructional Design Method. The MOSAD application has been developed using Java JCreator LE, Sun Java Wireless Toolkit version 2.5.2 and Microsoft Paint. The application contains several sections which include Objectives, Introduction, Course Contents, Summary, Quiz, References and Help. The MOSAD application is developed as a tool for second year Business and Information System (BIS) students of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) to do the revision as a preparation for any assessments such as tests and examinations. Quasi Experimental Design was conducted to 116 second year UTP BIS SAD course students. Various instruments such as heuristic evaluation, post test, questionnaires and observation have been designed to measure the effectiveness and usability of the developed application. The effectiveness and usability of the application were evaluated based on qualitative and quantitative analysis using SPSS vi software. Overall, the results show that MOSAD application is effective as a revision tool for SAD students and it fulfilled the usability needs

Factors affecting awareness on information security in Internet banking among Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) students

Internet banking is becoming one of the important services to many consumers.Most of the banking transactions can now be done online regardless of time and place.Information security is one of the crucial components in Internet banking where it ensures the confidentiality of bank users’ information.It was found that there is lack of empirical studies on awareness of information security in Internet banking among tertiary education students.Therefore, this study is conducted to fulfill two objectives; (1) to identify potential factors that can influence awareness on information security in Internet banking among tertiary education students, and (2) to measure the relationship between the identified factors and the level of awareness on information security for Internet banking among tertiary education students.Seven factors have been identified from the literature including security concern, security care, social norm, computer literacy, regulatory literacy, recovery facility and information support.This study applied questionnaire instrument to evaluate the relationship between the identified factors and the level of awareness on Internet banking information security among tertiary education students.Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) students have been selected as subject for this study which represent tertiary education students. Descriptive and inferential analyses were used to analyze the consolidated data.Results showed that all seven factors influenced the level of awareness except the social norm

A Hybrid Multi-Filter Wrapper Feature Selection Method for Software Defect Predictors

Software Defect Prediction (SDP) is an approach used for identifying defect-prone software modules or components. It helps software engineer to optimally, allocate limited resources to defective software modules or components in the testing or maintenance phases of software development life cycle (SDLC). Nonetheless, the predictive performance of SDP models reckons largely on the quality of dataset utilized for training the predictive models. The high dimensionality of software metric features has been noted as a data quality problem which negatively affects the predictive performance of SDP models. Feature Selection (FS) is a well-known method for solving high dimensionality problem and can be divided into filter-based and wrapper-based methods. Filter-based FS has low computational cost, but the predictive performance of its classification algorithm on the filtered data cannot be guaranteed. On the contrary, wrapper-based FS have good predictive performance but with high computational cost and lack of generalizability. Therefore, this study proposes a hybrid multi-filter wrapper method for feature selection of relevant and irredundant features in software defect prediction. The proposed hybrid feature selection will be developed to take advantage of filter-filter and filter-wrapper relationships to give optimal feature subsets, reduce its evaluation cycle and subsequently improve SDP models overall predictive performance in terms of Accuracy, Precision and Recall values

Development of mobile application for autistic children using augmentative and alternative communication technique

Communication is essentially a perfect approach to start and end everyday life routines. It is exceedingly critical to maintain one’s life whether it is verbal or nonverbal communication. As the number of autistic children is increasing, the children experience in having problems in communication. Furthermore, there is a lack of mobile learning application in Malay on speech and language.The objective of this paper includes reporting on the development and evaluation of user acceptance of an Android based application using Augmentative and Alternative Communication technique.Suara Saya is a developed mobile application which will act as a learning-based and communication-based application.Rapid Application Development methodology has been applied in the development.The tools used include Android Studio, Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Adobe.User acceptance testing has been conducted to 13 participants which consist of speech therapists, teachers and parents.A survey has been conducted after they have gone through the application. Results have shown that the teachers and parents are willing to use the app for their children and they believed that the usage of mobile phones will benefit children with autism

Study on dimensional stability of particleboard made using glutardialdehyde modified corn starch as the binder at various relative humidity

The objective of the study was to evaluate the dimensional stability of experimental particleboard panels made from rubberwood (Hevea brasiliensis) using modified starch as binder. Panels were manufactured using 15% corn starch modified with glutardialdehyde and 13% modified starch with 2% Urea Formaldehyde resin as improvement. The particleboards were tested for their dimensional stability towards moisture. Results found that the 2% replacement of modified starch with urea formaldehyde resin showed a little increased in dimensional stability compared to using glutardialdehyde modified corn starch only as the binder. Therefore, this study indicated that combination of modified corn starch and urea formaldehyde resin can have a potential to be used as an improved binder to produce particleboard panels with accepted properties

MOBILESCHOOL CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

Mobile learning management system (MLMS) refers to the utilization of mobile devices in managing academic related activities. In this research, there are two main problems that have been identified; lack of research in terms of investigating the effectiveness of teaching and learning using MLMS and lack ofm-leaming theories or concepts incorporation for the development of MLMS especially for secondary school. Therefore, this study aims to fulfil four main objectives; to identifY variables to solve the identified problems, to develop a conceptual model for MLMS called MobileSchool, to develop MLMS called MobileSchool system, and to evaluate MobileSchool system in terms of usability and effectiveness

MOBILESCHOOL CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

Mobile learning management system (MLMS) refers to the utilization of mobile devices in managing academic related activities. In this research, there are two main problems that have been identified; lack of research in terms of investigating the effectiveness of teaching and learning using MLMS and lack ofm-leaming theories or concepts incorporation for the development of MLMS especially for secondary school. Therefore, this study aims to fulfil four main objectives; to identifY variables to solve the identified problems, to develop a conceptual model for MLMS called MobileSchool, to develop MLMS called MobileSchool system, and to evaluate MobileSchool system in terms of usability and effectiveness

Task Based Test Case Generation on Available Gestural Interaction of Smartphone for Improved Safety and Ergonomics in Real Driving Scenario

Mobile phones that accept input by a user’s finger motion are becoming increasingly common. However, they still have challenging problems to research, such as the ergonomic and safety aspects. As an outcome, more research required its capabilities and a critical examination of the existing gestural interfaces and how they assist drivers' activities while driving. This research paper attempts to present a comprehensive understanding of possible gestures on the smartphones by conducting user testing with a sample data of 30 drivers from three different age groups. The user testing was performed in an actual driving environment. Observation and interviews were carried out to study drivers’ behavior while driving. The data gathered were then interpreted into action and motivation levels. The action level was defined by how drivers interact with smartphones while driving, and in motivation level, a study on why drivers interact in that manner was conducted. The results were then drawn to a table with the task carried out during user testing. In conclusion, this research aims to consider all these issues that drivers confront while driving. This is to determine how a more advanced gestural interaction of smartphone interfaces may be created to meet drivers' safety and ergonomic concerns

Evaluation of time-dependent pathways in an acute ischemic stroke protocol that incorporates CT perfusion: A tertiary referral center experience

Background and Objective: Intravenous thrombolysis service for stroke was introduced at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC) in 2009, based on the recommendations of a multidisciplinary team of clinicians. We report the experience at our center in establishing a stroke protocol incorporating computed tomography perfusion (CTP) of the brain, to assess the feasibility of incorporating CTP in the stroke protocol. Methods: A retrospective review of all patients who had a CTP between January 2010 and December 2011 was performed. Results: Of 272 patients who were admitted with acute ischemic stroke, 44 (16.2%) arrived within 4.5 hours from symptom onset and had a CTP performed with the intention to treat. The median time for symptom-to-door, symptom-to-scan and door-to-scan was 90.0 minutes (62.5 – 146.3), 211.0 minutes (165.5 – 273.5) and 85.0 minutes (48.0 – 144.8) respectively. Eight patients (2.9%) were thrombolysed of whom five received IV thrombolysis and three underwent mechanical thrombolysis. The median symptom-to-needle and door-to-needle times were 290.5 minutes (261.3 – 405.0) and 225.0 minutes (172.5 – 316.8) respectively. Four patients were thrombolysed despite being outside the window of treatment based on the CTP findings. Six of the thrombolysed patients had a Modified Rankin Score (MRS) of 1-2 at 5 months post procedure. Conclusions: CTP provides a benefit to management decisions and subsequent patient outcome. It is feasible to incorporate CTP as a standard imaging modality in a stroke protocol. The delays in the time-dependent pathways are due to our work flow and organisational process rather than performing the CTP per se