Ciri-ciri senibina landskap sekolah di Lembah Klang-Langat

Di samping menambah keindahan persekitaran, dengan reka bentuk berkonsep dan ciri tertentu landskap sekolah seharusnya boleh berfungsi membantu proses pembelajaran dan pendidikan. Ciri-ciri landskap sekolah di Malaysia masa kini masih belum menggambarkan prinsip asas falsafah pendidikan negara. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengklasifikasi cirri dan mengenal pasti konsep landskap sekolah di Lembah Klang-Langat. Bagi tujuan itu kajian ini menggunakan data primer yang dikutip melalui cerapan di lapangan menggunakan kaedah senarai semak terhadap 104 buah sekolah di Lembah Klang-Langat yang dipilih secara rawak berstrata; dan data sekunder yang diperoleh daripada pelbagai agensi berkaitan. Hasil kajian menunjukkan 44.6% landskap sekolah di wilayah ini cenderung berkonsepkan landskap buatan, khususnya sekolah di bandar. Konsep landskap lain yang popular termasuklah English dan Nusantara. Dari segi tipologi 89.4% merupakan landskap tradisional. Rata-rata landskap sekolah dihiasi dengan komponen kejur seperti tangga taman, pasu bunga, papan tanda, perabut taman, mural dan gazebo. Pokok peneduh, renek, penutup bumi, rumput, pokok buah-buahan dan herba merupakan komponen lembut yang popular. Kolam ikan dan pancuran pula adalah komponen buatan yang sering ditemui. Elemen fasiliti yang popular pula termasuklah pondok pengawal, tong sampah, laluan pejalan kaki, petak letak kereta dan but telefon. Komponen fauna yang popular pula meliputi burung dan rama-rama. Sedangkan komponen flora yang utama meliputi bunga kertas bagi spesies pokok renek, pandan wangi bagi spesies herba dan rumput kerbau bagi spesies penutup bumi. Penilaian dari segi estetika menunjukkan majoriti landskap sekolah yang dicerap hanya pada tahap sederhana menarik sahaja. Keseluruhan hasil kajian ini cenderung untuk menunjukkan bahawa landskap sekolah di Lembah Klang-Langat belum dimajukan sehingga dapat berfungsi menyokong proses pembelajaran

Perception of school students, teachers and parents towards the importance of landscape.

There are differing perceptions towards landscape among school students, teachers and parents. Their perceptions are influenced by the types of landscapes, functions of the landscapes and schools’ achievements among others

Preserving and enhancing the cultural landscape of Kampung Santubong, through eco-village approach / Hafizuddin Tajuddin, Faridatul Akma Abd Latif and Salina Mohamed Ali.

This article attempts to discuss a comprehensive design of landscape conservation for Kampung Santubong, Kuching Sarawak. The purpose study is by preserving and enhancing the cultural landscape of this village through eco-village approach. Major issue of the village is lack sense of personalization, damage of significant building, loss of traditional practice and loss of estuary mangrove ecosystem. As to encounter the issues, this study come out with the aims to revive the memory of Kampung Santubong by preserving and enhancing the local distinctiveness of Kampung Santubong through Eco-village approach. The methodology used in this project is by preparatory study from National Park Service (NPS) Guidelines for evaluating and documenting rural historic landscape and comparative study that reveals several design guidelines. Subsequently, the implications of the analysis and synthesis mapping is used to translate a complementary intervention proposed by the conceptual plan before developing a master plan. Based on this study, the sustainable design approach is used such as reef ball, river treatment, regreening, bio-pores and human and crocodile conflict management. The finding of the project is by preserving all the significant of Kampung Santubong through the identity and history of the village by interpreting the design with a sense of place while achieve balancing vernacular landscape. Hence, this study of cultural heritage village and design program as to sustain the cultural landscape at Kampung Santubong

Preserving and enhancing the cultural landscape of Kampung Santubong, through eco-village approach / Hafizuddin Tajuddin, Faridatul Akma Abd Latif and Salina Mohamed Ali.

This article attempts to discuss a comprehensive design of landscape conservation for Kampung Santubong, Kuching Sarawak. The purpose study is by preserving and enhancing the cultural landscape of this village through eco-village approach. Major issue of the village is lack sense of personalization, damage of significant building, loss of traditional practice and loss of estuary mangrove ecosystem. As to encounter the issues, this study come out with the aims to revive the memory of Kampung Santubong by preserving and enhancing the local distinctiveness of Kampung Santubong through Eco-village approach. The methodology used in this project is by preparatory study from National Park Service (NPS) Guidelines for evaluating and documenting rural historic landscape and comparative study that reveals several design guidelines. Subsequently, the implications of the analysis and synthesis mapping is used to translate a complementary intervention proposed by the conceptual plan before developing a master plan. Based on this study, the sustainable design approach is used such as reef ball, river treatment, regreening, bio-pores and human and crocodile conflict management. The finding of the project is by preserving all the significant of Kampung Santubong through the identity and history of the village by interpreting the design with a sense of place while achieve balancing vernacular landscape. Hence, this study of cultural heritage village and design program as to sustain the cultural landscape at Kampung Santubong

Restoring and resuscitating the cultural landscape of Kg Pulau Ketam, Perlis / Mohammad Azam Fikri, Faridatul Akma Abd Latif and Salina Mohamed Ali.

This paper will discuss the final comprehensive design restoring and resuscitating the cultural of landscape of Kampung “Pulau Ketam’. The village faces annual flood events leading to degradation of existing significant properties as well as developments that demolish the genus loci of the site as a cultural fisherman village. As to encounter these issues, the aims of this article to restore and resuscitate the cultural landscape of Kampung “Pulau Ketam” with enhance the traditional fisherman Malay village livelihood by using eco-efficient and ecological treatment. The projects covering an area of 821 km2, Perlis is the smallest state in Malaysia. It is located at the northern part of the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia (6030’N and 100o15’E). In 2010, the total population was recorded at 245,636 persons with a density of 276.5/km2. The state economy is dominated by agriculture accounting for 80.5% of land use in the state with the dominant crops being rice, sugar, herbs, rubber and fruits. Forestry and fishery are also important economic sectors. The capital city of Perlis is Kangar which all case studies are in this district. The research highlighted the significant of the site study divided into three phases of sustainable interventions; 1) conservation of natural landscape 2) ecological conservation and preservation 3) resilience through protection of natural landscape, adaptive design on flooding, cultural landscape design interpretation and multiple land uses in fisherman village design program as to sustain the cultural landscape by integrating it with sustainable practice

Initial response of autistic children in human-robot interaction therapy with humanoid robot NAO

The overall context proposed in this paper is part of our long-standing goal to contribute to a group of community that suffers from Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); a lifelong developmental disability. The objective of this paper is to present the development of our pilot experiment protocol where children with ASD will be exposed to the humanoid robot NAO. This fully programmable humanoid offers an ideal research platform for human-robot interaction (HRI). This study serves as the platform for fundamental investigation to observe the initial response and behavior of the children in the said environment. The system utilizes external cameras, besides the robot’s own visual system. Anticipated results are the real initial response and reaction of ASD children during the HRI with the humanoid robot. This shall leads to adaptation of new procedures in ASD therapy based on HRI, especially for a non-technical-expert person to be involved in the robotics intervention during the therapy session

Robust speech recognition using fusion techniques and adaptive filtering

The study proposes an algorithm for noise cancellation by using recursive least square (RLS) and pattern recognition by using fusion method of Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM). Speech signals are often corrupted with background noise and the changes in signal characteristics could be fast. These issues are especially important for robust speech recognition. Robustness is a key issue in speech recognition. The algorithm is tested on speech samples that are a part of a Malay corpus. It is shown that the fusion technique can be used to fuse the pattern recognition outputs of DTW and HMM. Furthermore refinement normalization was introduced by using weight mean vector to obtain better performance. Accuracy of 94% on pattern recognition was obtainable using fusion HMM and DTW compared to 80.5% using DTW and 90.7% using HMM separately. The accuracy of the proposed algorithm is increased further to 98% by utilization the RLS adaptive noise cancellation