M-Guide: Hybrid Recommender System Tourism in East-Timor

Mobile devices have an important role in supporting every activity of the wide community. Mobile-based (android) tour guide system becomes a benchmark in supporting the Tourist activities. The purpose of this study is to apply Mguide application that utilizes location-based services with hybrid recommender system in guiding Tourists based on recommendation result. Collaborative filtering and contentbased filtering methods have an interest in recommending Tourist attractions based on the past Tourist data by using the algorithm k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) to determine the rating of the Tourist attractions. The trend of Smartphone usage became an alternative in determining the contribution in this research by applying M-Guide which has the ability in recommending Tourist attractions and has a guide system in guiding the Tourists based on Tourist attractions in East Timor

Virtual Keyboard Design of Lampung Script Based on Android

Lampung script fonts, in general, can only be used for typing on a computer system and have not been developed for typing on Android-based smartphones. Therefore, efforts to modernize and build typing using Lampung script for smartphone needs are very much needed on mobile phones so they can be used flexibly. This research makes a virtual keyboard / android keyboard application that can do typing using Lampung script. The virtual keyboard layout is designed by adopting several layouts found on the QWERTY keyboard by displaying all Aksara letters on one virtual keyboard display and grouping Aksara letters in a more attractive composition. To test the Lampung virtual keyboard script, the researchers used the usability testing method, namely aspects of effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction, by 25 respondents. Through this test, an assessment of the effectiveness of the typing test on the success rate of respondents in doing the task was obtained, which was 75%. Evaluation of the typing efficiency aspect using time calculation gets the average result on the WPM score analysis, which is 34 WPM. This result is still below the average typing speed of people, which is 38 WPM. Testing on the aspect of user satisfaction using the system usability scale (SUS) method gets a SUS value of 76, and this result is included in the Acceptable/Good category Acceptable/Good so that users can type Lampung script through Android phones. The conclusion is that it can produce an optimal, efficient virtual keyboard layout and provide comfort for the user while using it with Android. It also could introduce the Lampung script to the younger generation

M-Guide: Recommending Systems of Food Centre in Buleleng Regency

Buleleng is Regency located in the North of Bali. Buleleng becomes one of the tourist destinations for both domestic and international tourist to travel. Buleleng Regency is known for its natural attractions. Besides its numbers of tourist attractions, this Regency also presents a lot of food choices, especially special cuisine in Buleleng. Not only has the special cuisine, Buleleng also had many choices of foods from the outside area. The price, the taste, the atmosphere (view), the service and the facilities vary at each centre. So, the tourists who visit Buleleng are confused when they have to choose one. This system stores 140 food courts in the Buleleng area and each of them is grouped into 15 groups based on its territories. Based on this reason, the collaborative method was chosen for this system. Besides the collaborative method, this system also uses the Location-Based Service (LBS) technology that utilizes the Global Positioning System (GPS) in its application, which the users can find out their position, define and search for specific locations either far or near; one of them is finding the food centre in the area of Buleleng Regency. This system is running on an Android mobile device. This system is expected to (1) facilitate the user in searching the food centre in the area of Buleleng Regency (2) the user can find out the nearest food centre from their location

PEWA: Place-Based and Effective Wai Monitoring for Adaptive Management

Includes the 36 page Final Report, a 23 page Presentation titled, "PEWA:Place-Based and Effective Wai Monitoring For Adaptive Management", and a 139 page Stream Monitoring Toolkit titled, "PEWA:Place-Based and Effective Wai Monitoring For Adaptive Management". The toolkit is 28 pages and is accompanied by an Appendix of resources of 111 pages.Master’s of Environmental Management (MEM) Capstone Report

Biocultural Restoration in Hawaiʻi

Biocultural restoration is a process by which the various connections between humanity and nature, as well as between People and Place are revived to restore the health and function of social-ecological systems. This collection explores the subject of biocultural restoration and does so within the context of Hawaiʻi, the most remote archipelago on the planet. The Hawaiian Renaissance, which started in the 1970s, has led to a revival of Hawaiian language, practices, philosophy, spirituality, knowledge systems, and systems of resource management. Many of the leading Indigenous and local scholars of Hawaiʻi who were born into the time of the Hawaiian Renaissance contributed to this collection. More than a third of the authors are of Indigenous Hawaiian ancestry; each paper had at least one Indigenous Hawaiian author, and several papers had a Hawaiian lead author, making this the largest collection to date of scientific publications authored by Indigenous Hawaiians (Kānaka ʻŌiwi). In addition, the majority of authors are women, and two of the papers had 100 percent authorship by women. This collection represents a new emphasis in applied participatory research that involves academics, government agencies, communities and both private and non-profit sectors