Norhayati Mohd Ali

Excessive and addictive gaming control using counselling agent in online game design

In recent times, online game play has become a food for thought to concerned individuals, researchers and authorities of various countries due to its excessive and addictive usage. Although, various government have taken certain measures such as shutting down internet cafe at certain hours of the day, censoring the most brutal, offensive and aggressive sections of certain games before they are released. Researchers have advised developers on ways of limiting harm on players by suggesting design changes on time limit. Furthermore, researchers have also suggested that online game distributors ought to make available appropriate referral services. The impart of the above are yet to make any remarkable impact on players. In this paper, we have proposed a Counseling Agent model integrating informative and self-appraisal messages in online game design as a control measure. Informative and self-appraisal messaging in games have proven optimistic through making positive impact on player’s thoughts and behavior towards gaming. These messages are expected to remind players about the negative impact of excessive and addictive gaming habits, as well as suggesting possible reductive solutions through message streaming.In recent times, online game play has become a food for thought to concerned individuals, researchers and authorities of various countries due to its excessive and addictive usage. Although, various government have taken certain measures such as shutting down internet cafe at certain hours of the day, censoring the most brutal, offensive and aggressive sections of certain games before they are released. Researchers have advised developers on ways of limiting harm on players by suggesting design changes on time limit. Furthermore, researchers have also suggested that online game distributors ought to make available appropriate referral services. The impart of the above are yet to make any remarkable impact on players. In this paper, we have proposed a Counseling Agent model integrating informative and self-appraisal messages in online game design as a control measure. Informative and self-appraisal messaging in games have proven optimistic through making positive impact on player’s thoughts and behavior to...

Class Diagram Critic: A Design Critic Tool for UML Class Diagram

Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams are widely used in Computer Science courses. The UML Class Diagram is part of the most important and widely used diagrams in teaching UML. The learning of UML Class Diagram demands a sufficient guidance from the lecturers. Thus, a critic-based and collaborative approach was proposed in the design of the Class Diagram Critic (CDC) tool. The CDC is an educational tool that offers quick and meaningful feedback to students about UML class diagrams they design. Critics in CDC tool are mainly to critique errors in UML class diagrams, offer suggestions, and provide semi-automated design improvements to students. The CDC tool employed the collaborative approach as to support the collaborative learning between students and lecturers.

Inconsistency Detection of Model and Code via Critic-Based Approach

Model Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) has become the state of the art in software abstraction and increasingly popular in industry and academia. MDSE concerns the use of models as first-class artifacts of software development process. The MDSE has been seen as a way to manage the increasing of software complexity. However, one of the challenges in MDSE is to generate a consistent model-implementation mapping between design model and source code. Source code is also an important software development artifact as it represents the executable system. Detecting inconsistencies between design models and source code is hard because both artifacts normally will have some changes or modifications. Several researchers have introduced various methods in managing the inconsistency of model-code. In this paper, we propose a critic-based approach to detect the inconsistencies between design model and source code. The critic-based approach will provide instant feedback that point out the inconsistencies between model and code.

Agile Methodologies and The Use of Its Waterscrumfall Derivative For Software Project Development

The use of agile methodologies in the development of software projects in industry is gaining support. Traditional methodologies are seen as being useful for large and complex projects and small and medium sized projects find these methodologies routine based and too formal. Small and medium size software projects usually have short delivery cycles which make the use of agile methodologies more acceptable and manageable.