Carbon footprint calculator for children / Romiza Md Nor and Haleeda Azwa Abdul Hadi

Climate change is an environmental problem that is identified as a global issue which is closely linked with carbon dioxide emission. There are various ways to reduce the amount of CO2 emission. One of them is by increasing the knowledge among people especially youngsters who have less exposure about climate change. This paper investigates the effectiveness of using a medium which is an interactive web based carbon footprint calculator for kids called CFCkids. CFCkids is developed to allow children to calculate their carbon footprint based on their daily activities that contribute to the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) for educational purposes. The calculation is divided into three parts which are home, school and tuition. CFCkids also provides information about climate change and tips to reduce carbon footprint. In testing phase, the pre and post-test on its usability and content had been conducted with children age ten to twelve years old. From the findings, it is discovered that CFCkids can increase the knowledge of children about climate change and how they can naturalize from the result of their carbon footprint calculation. This project is also relevant in becoming one of the educational mediums for them. For the future works of CFCkids, the system will be enhanced to allow children to connect with their friends using CFCkidsapplication which allows them to share their carbon footprint report to create awareness by looking into the impact of their own carbon footprint which can lead them to be more responsibletowards the environment

The kids calculator : what's your footprint? / Romiza Md Nor and Haleeda Azwa Abdul Hadi

There are various ways to reduce the amount of CO2 emission. This paper investigates the effectiveness of using a medium which is an interactive web based carbon footprint calculator for kids called oped to allow children to calculate their carbon footprint based on their daily activities that contribute to the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) for educational purposes. CFCkids also provides information about climate change and tips to reduce carbon footprint. Evaluation on usability and content had been conducted with children aged ten to twelve years old. From the findings, it has been discovered that CFCkids can increase the knowledge of children about climate change and how they can naturalize the environment from the result of their carbon footprint calculation

Carbon Footprint Calculator for Paddy Production using Sustainable Web Design

Climate change is one of the major issues that concerned by the global community. Carbon footprint calculation has evolved as one indicator to measure the concentration of the carbon emission release. Carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as the result of human activities. This research investigates the usability of the web application to increase the level of awareness towards carbon emission during paddy production. A web application called Paddy Footprint is developed by using two sustainable web design principles which are more sustainable component and user experience and design. Paddy Footprint allows users to calculate the carbon emission release resulting from the paddy production activities such as rice cultivation, fertilizer application, field burning and fuel consumption. Besides, Paddy Footprint also provides the users with information and knowledge on carbon footprint. Usability testing was conducted to evaluate the level of awareness towards environmental sustainability. The evaluation conducted involved thirty participants. From the findings, it has been discovered that through Paddy Footprint, users can calculate and display the carbon footprint for each activity. It also enhances the knowledge of participants on carbon footprint, which can encourage them to create a small step in reducing it

A Web-based Image Recognition System for Detecting Harumanis Mangoes

Harumanis mango cultivar is special to Perlis (north state of Malaysia) and has been declared in the national agenda as a special fruit. For those who are not acquainted with aromatic mango, it is difficult to tell the distinction between Harumanis and the others . By using image recognition, people can identify Harumanis feature details by image recognition technique where algorithm is applied to recognize the mango. Convolutional neural networks method is a suitable technique for the creation of a multi - fruit in re al - time classification sorter with the camera and for the detection of moving fruit. Furthermore, the accuracy of the image classification can be improved by increasing the number of datasets, the distance of images from the camera, and the labelling proce ss. This project used Mobile Net architecture model because it consumes less computational power and it can also provide efficiency of the accuracy. A w eb - based i mage r ecognition s ystem for d etecting Harumanis m angoes was developed and known as CamPauh to recognize four classes of mango which are H arumanis, apple mango, other type s of mango es and not mango. CamPauh ca n identify different type of mangoes and the result was stored into the database and appeared on the websit e. E valuation on the accuracy was conducted discussed to support users ’ satisfaction in identifying the correct mango type

Monitoring Electric Power Wheelchair Battery Consumption Level via Mobile

Nowadays, power wheelchair is one of the most important vehicles for people with physical disabilities such as paralysis, stroke, handicap and many more. Electric wheelchair which is also called electric - power wheelchair or powerchair can be moved by an el ectrically based power source, regularly motor or batteries. It is very important to have frequent monitoring battery level because power wheelchair need sufficient battery level for it to be moved around. Therefore, this project is developed to monitor th e battery consumption level and real time battery monitoring. Current sensor is used to measure the current state of the battery level. In this project, Internet of Things (IoT) concept is applied where sensor and mobile application is integrated and know n as BLife. Blife was designed using the visibility of the system status principles which consist of knowledge is power, appropriate feedback, compel user to action and communication creates trusts. If the battery is in the lower state, the power wheelcha ir users will be informed through mobile application via an indicator informing that it needs to be recharged. Moreover, the current location of the power wheelchair user is also notified to the users’ caretaker. Evaluation of Blife were conducted using fu nctionality and usability testing based on visibility of the system status technique. Most of the respondents are satisfied and gave positive feedback. This project is a great contribution to disable people who has limited access to charge battery and to a lert them on their battery level status

Designing Fish Optic Mobile Application for Fish Disease Identification

The signs and symptoms of fish disease can be traced by checking on the eye surface which is the cornea of fisheye. The Fish Optic mobile application aims to help students study the fisheye anatomy and to trace the symptoms of diseases on fish. The Fish Optic user mobile application uses Human-Centered System Development Life Cycle (HCSDLC) which consists of four phases which are project selection and planning, analysis, design and implementation. As HCSDLC emphasizes on user involvement throughout all phases, an interview was conducted, and a post task walkthrough was performed. User Acceptance Test formative evaluation was then conducted by distributing questionnaire. Some recommendations are also discussed for future works to improve and refine the design of the Fish Optic mobile application to enhance user experience. It can be concluded that using HCSDLC method throughout the design of Fish Optic mobile application contributes to a well-defined systems requirement to support user needs and to accommodate the lack of human understanding that frustrates users in their daily routines

Community conversation: designing to support empathy

In isolated, rural areas, people are necessarily independent and it can be difficult for them to seek help. One of the ways to improve this is to find a remotely accessible solution. Information and communication technology (ICT) can be used to eliminate distance as a barrier to social interaction, and in turn can create new optimism for rural areas when it is a device to improve interaction. The important benefit of receiving emotional support and information from others is that it encourages and increases hope. This research suggests that when collaborating virtually, the farming community can receive effective advice from experts to facilitate their decision making and at the same time to support their psychosocial health. Our study propose characteristics of design that support emotional communication as well as factual information exchange to motivate the user, display empathy and develop understanding in a crisis. The user experience of the emotional expression in the discussion among community members will be highlighted. We posit that it is important that empathy and hope are included in interaction between participants, especially when ICT is used to deal with complex conversations (e.g. climate change, agricultural information). However, not much is known about the effectiveness of ICT in expressing empathy. Therefore, the hope interaction pattern is introduced to provide an experience of feeling supported to the users of a community conversation system

Designing to support empathy: understanding user experience by using a model of interaction in meeting human needs

Farming community in rural areas are independent and it can be difficult for them to seek help. One of the ways to improve this is to find a remotely accessible solution. This research suggests that when collaborating virtually, the farming community can receive effective advice from experts to facilitate their decision making. Our study proposes characteristics of design that support emotional communication as well as factual information exchange to motivate the user, display empathy and develop understanding in a crisis. User experience design of a computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) system will be applied which incorporates empathy as the key characteristic of the design. This research will be designed based on the user experience of interaction among participants through a collaboration technology which can be more supportive when using empathic communication techniques

Designing Fish Optic Mobile Application for Fish Disease Identification

The signs and symptoms of fish disease can be traced by checking on the eye surface which is the cornea of fisheye. The Fish Optic mobile application aims to help students study the fisheye anatomy and to trace the symptoms of diseases on fish. The Fish Optic user mobile application uses Human-Centered System Development Life Cycle (HCSDLC) which consists of four phases which are project selection and planning, analysis, design and implementation. As HCSDLC emphasizes on user involvement throughout all phases, an interview was conducted, and a post task walkthrough was performed. User Acceptance Test formative evaluation was then conducted by distributing questionnaire. Some recommendations are also discussed for future works to improve and refine the design of the Fish Optic mobile application to enhance user experience. It can be concluded that using HCSDLC method throughout the design of Fish Optic mobile application contributes to a well-defined systems requirement to support user needs and to accommodate the lack of human understanding that frustrates users in their daily routines