Sa'adah Hassan

Towards Designing Tangible Interaction for Children with Dyslexia in Learning the Malay Language

In this paper, we provide a study of tangible interaction (TI) based on theories and related works for dyslexic children. The study is an attempt to investigate TI for dyslexic children in learning Malay language in Malaysia primary schools. TI has tremendous contribution in supporting dyslexic children to enhance their way of learning process. However, TI that were developed currently have different capabilities and purposes. For example, current works currently only developed for other languages like English, Mandarin and Dutch. The TI model for English or other languages may not be suitable to be adopted directly for the Malay language due to differences of letter sound, morphology and etc. There were nine related works reviewed in this study. Based on these previous related works and learning theories we designed a conceptual TI model for dyslexic children in learning the Malay language.

Actor in Multi Product Line

Software product line (SPL) involved variability modeling in domain engineering that will be matched to the respected application engineering. Several researches existed within the scope of mapping from reference architecture (RA) in domain engineering to system architecture in application engineering within the same domain. However, the mapping of cross domain RA or Multi Product Line (MPL) required more systematic mapping due to the several participating product line architecture (PLA) that will further instantiated to specific system architecture. The objective of this paper was to propose an actor-oriented approach in the mapping process of reference architecture, product line architecture and system architecture of MPL. Since the reference architecture consisted of several components, the scope of this research was within the functional decomposition or source code level. The experiment was involving the runtime behavior of the java code. The code with actor-oriented approach had shown the least amount of time taken to complete the main method compared to the non-actor-oriented approach. In conclusion, actor-oriented approach performs better performance in the mapping of reference architecture to product line architecture and system architecture. For future work, the consistency of the mapping will be evaluated.

Design Metaphor to Improve Usability of User Interface for Paddy Farmers in Malaysia

Metaphor is a representation of object and situation that have meaning and comparable to real thing to convey the message to people. The purpose of using metaphor is to facilitate in making communication more direct and effective for particular user communities. This study reveals design metaphor issues for paddy farmer population in agriculture domain in Malaysia. The work is motivated by the ICT-Based Agriculture Flagship Blueprint of the Malaysia Government, an initiative to equips agriculture stakeholders in Malaysia including farmers with ICT knowledge on multiple platforms e.g. kiosk, personal computer or mobile device. The metaphors design is deemed to have a huge potential to improve user interface usability of agriculture applications for paddy farmers in Malaysia.

Flexibility Point of Customer Relationship Management System based on User Perspective

ABSTRACT Software is an essential asset of an organization in organizing business process. Thus, demand for software gradually increase from day-to-day. However, due to the complex structure of a software and tedious software design has cause delays in making it to be available in market. Consequently it increases the needs for customizing software from existing system. Under those circumstances, software customization is influenced by the flexibility of software that indicates how easy the software is modified to suit the current environment. Thus, the easiness is determined by the flexibility point that resides in software. Since flexibility is a desirable software quality characteristic, determination of flexibility point is essential. In this case, user role transformation from one domain to another domain has been viewed as flexibility point that triggers changes into the software. To demonstrate flexibility point exist at the user role, this study emphasize on the change of class design from Customer Relationship Management System (CRMS) to Tuition Centre Management System (TCMS). As a result, some slight modification on the user oriented class attributes and methods effect the changes on other associated classes. Certainly, slight modification only can be made if the user-oriented class definition is written as general purpose rather than dedicated to one system. Therefore, proper definition of user-oriented class assists in promoting flexibility and at the same time it has been view as software flexibility point.