Exploring Modes of ECMS-use Supporting Organizational Business Processes

IT and business managers are not being given a clear guidance on what ECMS can offer and how they could benefits from these technologies. This study posits that ECMS-use is related to business process aspects, the organizational context and human factors that shapes the way organizations use the technology. With these focus in mind, this research has conducted multiple case studies in seven large organizations to understand the different ways they use ECMS. Based on the collected evidences, cross case analysis has yield interesting findings to how these organizations have been utilizing their ECMS in different ways to suit their business processes need, institutional conditions, users’ requirements and ECMS facilities available at hand. These outcomes make a significant contribution in guiding organizations to: plan intended ECMS-use, understand why their ECMS technology may be underutilized and design ways to exploit the use of these technologie

Designing a techonolgy for the elderly: Elderband and elderalert

The number of adults aged between 60 and older experiencing fall is alarming.Therefore prevention of fall among elderly assisted by technology is this research priority.There are various fall detection devices and smartphone applications available in the market which all have the same aim, acting as a medium to notify the emergency contacts of the location and time when user falls. The users of those devices and applications are mainly elderly who may have suffered from falls or have difficulties which may lead to more serious injuries.However, there are a number of constraints posed by these available fall detection devices and applications. The fall detection devices are expensive and some require monthly subscription.The devices need to be carried with the user at all times to ensure the fall can be detected.Therefore, this research aims to minimize the mentioned disadvantages with the introduction of ElderBand and ElderAlert. ElderBand is a smart wearable which is lightweight and can be worn by user at all times.ElderAlert is a smartphone application which enables notifications to the emergency contacts in case of a fall. Both ElderBand and ElderAlert are connected via Bluetooth for the fall detection system to work.ElderBand transmit acceleration data continuously to ElderAlert to estimate a fall. It then notifies the emergency contact when a fall is detected. This research provides ideas on how technology could be designed for better quality of life for the elderly

Creating a knowledge sharing portal to support the teaching of Malaysian indigenous language

Bahasa Semai is one of the indigenous languages that exist in Malaysia and is taught in selected Malaysian primary schools.In sustaining the existence of the biggest indigenous ethnics in Malaysia, it is significant to preserve the existence of their language and best supported with the existing computing technology.The purpose of this paper is to report the process of developing a portal for the usage of Bahasa Semai educators that teach the language to the school children.The portal allows educators to upload their teaching materials, access Bahasa Semai dictionary, share teaching experience with other teachers and communicate with the indigenous language coordinator.Interviews and literature reviews were conducted for the preliminary studies in identifying the functionalities of the portal. The portal was developed by following agile methodology and six educators from two primary schools that offer Bahasa Semai in class were interviewed in the user testing phase.As a result, the educators have positive interests in using the portal and believe that the portal will be able to assist them in teaching the language, especially to educators that Bahasa Semai is not their first language. Moreover, the portal will allow knowledge sharing of Bahasa Semai teachings between educators and coordinators, which will assist in sustaining an indigenous language in Malaysia

Exploring the Use of Enterprise Content Management Systems in Unification Types of Organizations

The aim of this paper is to better understand how highly standardized and integrated businesses known as unification types of organizations use Enterprise Content Management Systems (ECMS) to support their business processes. Multiple case study approach was used to study the ways two unification organizations use their ECMS in their daily work practices. Arising from these case studies are insights into the differing ways in which ECMS is used to support businesses. Based on the comparisons of the two cases, this study proposed that unification organizations may use ECMS in four ways, for: (1) collaboration, (2) information sharing that supports a standardized process structure, (3) building custom workflows that support integrated and standardized processes, and (4) providing links and access to information systems. These findings may guide organizations that are highly standardized and integrated in fashion, to achieve their intended ECMS-use, to understand reasons for ECMS failures and underutilization and to exploit technologies investments