Mohd Heikal Husin

Achieving adoption and effective usage of Web 2.0 among employees within Australian government organizations

Purpose – Ensuring effective usage of Web 2.0 within government organisations is not as straightforward as it seems. The organisations should be aware of a number of issues when implementing Web 2.0 internally. This paper introduces a theoretical model that highlights the importance of management, technology and people issues influencing the level of Web 2.0 usage from an internal perspective. The purpose of this paper was to identify and explore these issues in a government context. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a mixed-method (qualitative and quantitative) analysis to identify the issues that should be focused on for achieving effective usage of Web 2.0 among government employees. A combination of interviews, surveys and usage data collected from two government organisations was used to gather the data. Findings – The main finding is that, a policy will act as an initial catalyst for culture change and effective usage of Web 2.0 technologies in a government environment. It was also found...

Eye 2H: A proposed automated smart home control system for detecting human emotions through facial detection

The increasing cost of living nowadays has caused many people to work harder in order to gain more pay. The associated heavier workloads together with tension and pressure often lead to stress-related health problems. People do really deserve a good rest when they come home from their office. As a result, the proposed solution - The Eye 2H is an intelligent system that will use the technique of image processing and face recognition to detect and analyze the human emotion to control the electronic equipment in their house through an intelligent control box. There are several studies highlighted that by controlling the brightness of light, we could affect the emotion or behavior of humans. Thus, we believe that The Eye 2H is capable to fulfill the main objective of the project which is to provide a better living environment for people in order to provide them a harmony and happy (2H) living life. The Eye 2H is capable of boosting the mood and emotion of the residents by controlling the electronic equipment in their house. The feature of turning on light automatically as well as fine-tune the brightness of light according to human emotion mood will give a “welcoming home” effect to the house owner. Besides that, The Eye 2H is also a green technology project as it will support the Go Green concept by reducing the energy usage.

Increasing e-government adoption in Malaysia: MyEG case study

Purpose This paper aims to study user acceptance of one of the Malaysian e-government services known as MyEG via a theoretical framework. The results are compared to a similar research conducted in Singapore. The motivation and benefits derived from this research can be used to improve the overall quality of services provided by MyEG and to enhance the efficiency as well as accountability of this e-government service. Design/methodology/approach This research was conducted by applying a theoretical framework known as technology acceptance model involving several factors such as intention to use, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, image, compatibility and trust. The research data were then validated by examining similar factors that had significance results, followed by the development of a simple prototype. Findings The results obtained from this research would be beneficial to enhance the level of adoption among the citizens in Malaysia. The identification of the different factors influencing the acceptance levels of users can also provide a better vision on the end-user perspective for MyEG developers and lead them to achieve better results in future platform developments. In addition, this study also fills the current existing gap in e-government research of Malaysia and contributes to the literature on the public users’ perspective of e-government services. Practical implications The results from this research would provide effective guidance to developers of e-government platforms to include specific criteria that would attract the general public in using the platforms. Social implications Besides that, it provides a new perspective from the general public on their interest to use any e-government platform specifically MyEG. Originality/value The findings of this research would assist in the improvement of the implementation and adoption of the current MyEG system. Besides that, this research will allow researchers to gain new insights about e-government services and apply the knowledge to further improve the current and other platform development.

INdoor-OuTdoor Elderly CAring SystEm (NOTECASE)

Dementia is a term for diseases or conditions caused memory loss issues. Age society often suffers from common problems such as Alzheimers disease that disrupts their daily life. Moreover, it restricted their activity area, safety and freedom in their daily life. Hence, a tracking system is good for their relatives or guardian to track their location and path. When the population of aged society increases and the number of elders being lost increases, current tracking and monitoring systems are unable to satisfy the needs of the community. Hence, a smart tracking and monitoring system that automatically tracks and monitor these elderly person is required. INdoor-OuTdoor Elderly CAring SystEm (NOTECASE) is a real-time tracking and monitoring system that utilizes the RFID, Wi-Fi, and Global Location Positioning System (GPS) aim to track and monitor the aged society, both within indoors and outdoors environment. A mobile and web-based application is developed and the architecture of the whole implementation is presented. This paper provides detailed background study, methods, implementations, results and conclusion of the NOTECASE.

Smart university: reservation system with contactless technology

This paper introduces a reservation system for sport facilities which consist of a web application and an Android-based mobile application. The system simplifies the reservation process for users to book available sport facilities within a university to be more efficient. The proposed system is utilized together with a contactless technology where a brief introduction of the contactless technology is provided in the paper. We selected the Near Field Communication (NFC) as the contactless technology for our proposed system. The efficiency of the proposed system is explored within this paper as well.

Enterprise Social Media within Malaysian company: Usage impacts among employees

With the increasing popularity of social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook, focus on the enterprise social media platform within a companys setting should be given more attention. Previous research has highlighted that enterprise social media platforms not just allow the employees to share their thought and idea freely on the correct platform but, also can help in developing a better teamwork for the company which in the end, can help the company to run their business at their best and brings more profit for them. This research will highlight the results on how Malaysian employees think about enterprise social media and how it affects their performance level. By conducting an online questionnaire as the research method, an effective suggestion on how enterprise social media can be improved will also be discussed in this research.

N-LibSys: Library System Using NFC Technology

This paper examines the weaknesses of an existing library system which is the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) and proposes an enhanced platform that overcomes the weaknesses of the previous system. The existing OPAC platform acts as a search engine for reading materials in the library is commonly complicated and not user friendly. The Near Field Communication (NFC) technology is introduced in this project as part of a mobile application. NFC is a set of protocols on portable devices which perform wireless and contactless short range, two-way communication between compatible devices. Transmission of data between devices is completed over radio waves and magnetic induction with passive NFC devices. As mobile devices, especially smartphones are more commonly utilized by users all around the world including university students, the proposed system would be able to enhance the performance of a library to be more convenient, secure, and more user friendly. Indirectly, the development of this mobile application can improve the visitation rates of students to the library by simplifying the searching, tracking reading materials and borrowing activities.

Children and social media usage: Malaysian initial perspective

The rapid growth of the Web has given birth to a heavily emphasized user-generated content platform such as Facebook. As a result, more and more users are utilizing such platforms to share their ideas and opinions to a wider audience. Young children who represents the new generation are also relying on this platform for many of their needs. Our research which was conducted among Malaysian children has found that such reliance is quite evident as well. As this need increases, the exposure to issues such as cyberbullying also increases. A survey was conducted among children from 9 to 12 years old in order to identify such reliance. The objective of this study is to identify the existing level of social media usages among Malaysian children. From the initial results, media sharing and social networking has become the most popular sites among the children. This indicates that further exploration into the usage trends among children as social media platforms becomes more utilized by the younger generation.

Security Challenges and Mitigations of NFC-Enabled Attendance System

Most of the universities or colleges, the lecturer has to take the attendance of the students manually by circulating a paper for them to register their names or calling the names. To date, there are various types of attendance systems that are applying different technologies such as biometrics, tokens and sensors such as RFID. The latest is by applying near-field communication (NFC), a sensor within the smartphone has been used as a mean for recording attendances. The aim of this paper is to list out the possible security attacks against NFC (Near Field Communication) enabled systems by focusing on a student-based attendance system. A brief overview over NFC technology and discussion on various security attacks against NFC in different media is presented. Overall, an attendance system is compromised mainly by tag swapping, tag cloning and manipulation of data occurring on the NFC device and operational server.