Fittings Malaysian active ageing to senior cohousing: a preliminary study

National Policy for elderly had encouraged the elderly to remain active, productive and create opportunities for them to live independently as Malaysia will reach ageing population status by year 2030. Senior Cohousing can be considered as a part of retirement home concept that can improve quality of life and encourages independent living. The objective of this study is to isolate the basic concept of Cohousing and to identify how Malaysian ageing can be fit with cohousing. A preliminary study was conducted among people that are in the age of 50 and over to seek their opinion regarding to current neighbourhood, cohousing potentialities and the acceptable of 6th cohousing elements to their neighbourhood. Data analysed through cross tabulation, likert scale and frequency analyses. The finding showed that the respondent had great potentialities to live in cohousing as they suit with the criterion. Hence, the elements of Neighbourhood Design which are safety and security; privacy; and the layout of the neighbourhood is the most important acceptable elements in developing cohousing. Overall this finding will be useful to identify senior cohousing mechanism especially in determining the suitable activities and to propose the other core elements of cohousing development suit with Malaysian active ageing community

Mobile learning application: flipped classroom

This study attempts to illustrate the phases of designing a flipped learning mobile application. It is worth noting that changes in students’ learning behavior should be met by changes in the classroom – particularly on the way a course should be delivered. Studies have shown that students who learn using the flipped learning method are less likely to fail as opposed to their counterparts in the traditional classroom setting. The rising importance and popularity of flipped learning necessitates the development of a mobile application that assists both students to learn and allow instructors to manage their course via their mobile devices, almost anywhere and anytime. The software development life cycle (SDLC) is divided into four distinct phases: 1) Preliminary study, 2) content design, 3) System design and development, and 4) System evaluation. The effectiveness of the application is tested using electroencephalography (EEG). The findings suggest effectiveness of the mobile application falls within the acceptable range. Improvements for the flipped learning mobile application is also presented

Effect mobile learning application in children’s interest

Mobile learning application is a teaching aid that can help students to self-study with or without guidance. Unfortunately, the mobile learning application did not help in identifying the increase in students' interest in learning especially children. This paper will discuss how mobile learning application affect the children interest in learning. Mix method of qualitative and quantitative used to evaluate the children interest based on the assessment score, micro-expression (facial expression) and interview. The results from all of the three methods show a positive interest are exist among children

Analyzing publication productivity using a web-based system: A preliminary study

There is no automated system that collect Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) academic staff publication from Scopus. Previously, data collection is made by retrieving the records from Scopus by searching for UMS affiliation and filtering by year. The data then is matched with Staff ID of the academic staff. This requires time and may lead to error because the work is done manually. In addition, the author name that are retrieved from Scopus may not be affiliated with UMS anymore, so the data is invalid. Thus, this paper highlights the significance of a project proposed as a platform for universities to gauge scholars’ research productivity in the Scopus database. Data from Scopus were extracted, analyzed and visualized using criterionssuch as age, academic position, as well asteaching loads that may affect a scholar’s research productivity. This paper focuses on the datest of academic staff from UMS, and their publication in Scopus, relative to their sociodemographic data

Elements of optimizing user engagement in e-commerce website

E-Commerce companies are faced with a highly competitive environment today. Strengthening and optimizing the user engagement elements in an ECommerce is a promising approach to increasing value co-creation. However, the lagged of attention to the recognition of user oriented emotional needs and expansion of user-driven demands in E-Commerce will eventually deteriorate business using the platform. Theoretical foundation of user engagement research is also still relatively underdeveloped. The purpose of this research is to explore and validate the user engagement attributes as it applies to peoples’ experiences with technology. By building the attributes that asserts the theory of engagement and recognised fundamental attributes, the reliability factorswere then assessed for validation. Preliminary study and reliability analysis were used for the identification of user engagements that would benefit E-Commerce. The result of this research reveals six attributes of user engagements and the reliability of the constructs was computed and have an alpha greater than 0.70 which presents excellent internal consistency reliability. Results indicate user engagement is a process comprised of six focused attention, perceived usability, aesthetics, endurability, novelty, and involvement. The process is characterized by attributes of engagement that pertain to the user, the system, and user-system interaction. This research provides the foundation for future work to further explore the conceptual model in various application areas, and to develop methods to measure engaging user experiences

Age-based facial recognition using convoluted neural network deep learning algorithm

Face recognition is the use of biometric innovations that can see or validate a person by seeing and investigating designs depending on the shape of the individual. Face recognition is used largely for the purpose of well-being, despite the fact that passion for different areas of use is growing. Overall, face recognition innovations are worth considering because they have the potential for broad legal jurisdiction and different business applications. It is widely used in many spaces. How it works is a product of facial recognition processing facial geometry. The hole between the ear and the good way from the front to the jaw are the main variables. This code distinguishes the highlight of the face that is important for your facial separation and creates your facial expression. Therefore, this study gives an overview of age detection using a different combination of machine learning and image processing methods on the image dataset

Oversupply causes of double storey terrace houses in Johor Bahru

Malaysia is currently facing an increasing problem in housing oversupply with Johor holding the second largest share in the nation’s oversupply stocks. Thus, this paper investigates the factors affecting housing oversupply in Johor, focusing on double terrace houses in Johor Bahru. The first objective reviews the causes of housing oversupply. The second objective evaluates the level of influence of factors on double storey terrace house oversupply in Johor Bahru. Questionnaires are distributed to 21 real estate agents in Johor Bahru to obtain their views on the housing oversupply factors. The level of influence of housing oversupply factors are ranked based on mean score. The study observes that housing unaffordability caused by expensive house prices and tight lending conditions strongly influence the housing oversupply in Johor Bahru. Thus, all parties in the property sector must work together to improve the buyers’ housing affordability to reduce housing oversupply in Johor Bahru. The findings of the study guides the developers, planners, policy makers and financial institutions in making property planning and financing decisions. Future research may attempt to investigate factors influencing the oversupply of other housing types or extend the study area to allow further understanding on housing oversupply problems in Malaysia

E-commerce in the Malaysian real estate agency industry

Advances in Information and Communications Technology have revolutionised the ways of doing business in the real estate industry. However, scarce literature on real estate agency Internet adoption, particularly in Malaysia limits understanding on the extent of applications and implications of Internet on real estate agency business activities. Thus, this study aims to investigate how real estate agencies in Malaysia adopt Internet strategy, focusing on websites, in their business activities. Questionnaires were distributed to 21 registered real estate agencies in Johor Bahru to obtain information on the firm’s background, use and impact of websites on the firms’ business. Analysis results showed active participation and utilisation of Internet by Malaysian real estate agency firms. Websites were used as a platform to promote the company’s brand and property listings to the prospective buyers. There was a positive relationship between website and sale generation with number of website visitors being an important factor in sales generation. Consumers concern for information security remained a major barrier in the real estate business. The findings of this study enhances understanding on website use and impact in the real estate agencies business. Further study may explore other types of Internet strategy such as emails and social media

Correlation assessment between working and academic performance

Working while studying is common, with at least half of all students taking a paid job at some point throughout their studies. By combining working and studying simultaneously will impact the academic performance of students. The main issues are the consequences of working while studying, which results in declining academic performance. This study aimed to identify possible reasons that cause students to work and study simultaneously, assess the correlation between work and academic performance, and determine the main barriers students face as they work and study. Using quantitative method, data was collected from 218 students from undergraduate and postgraduate, who have experienced study while working. Results show that most students agreed that working while studying correlates with academic performance. Furthermore, it is necessary to learn about the positive and negative effects of their efforts that distract them all this time. Having known all, these factors helped this study develop a good strategy for maintaining a better life while working and studying simultaneously

Mapping of utilities risk for sewerage system asset management

Sewerage system provide infrastructure that conveys sewage or surface runoff using sewer network. Sewerage system requires perfect infrastructure to ensure that sewage can be channelled to the sewage treatment plant safely. Meticulous asset management for sewerage system is highly recommended to avoid any risk to assets that deliver sewage. Risk assessment strategy for sewerage asset is basically will evaluate the risk factor that influences the asset to encounter the potential problem. Current risk assessment framework didn't include spatial analysis to show the locations of the assets with risk. This study focused on the production of risk map that aims to analyse potential risk for asset management of sewerage system in Majlis Perbandaran Johor Bahru Tengah (MPJBT) using spatial analysis. The spatial analysis used in this study is slope analysis and asset's analysis focusing on age sewerage assets parameter. Combination of both factors show the risks that require more attention from the sewerage system management. The results show there were 90.8% of the asset have low risk, 8.9% have medium risk and 0.3% asset have high risk. These results can be used by the sewerage assets authority to make better decision in preventions and manage risk that could happen to the sewerage assets