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The economy is expected to decline. All countries aspire for economic stability because it can enhance a country's gross domestic product (GDP). Nations must thoroughly examine their economic realities in order to adopt strategic economic policies that foster growth and attract investment. The present dashboard only displays the inflation rate and excludes other essential economic indicators such as total economic output, current GDP rate, currency rates, and unemployment rate. The indicators were presented graphically on a separate platform without a detailed explanation, which could lead to misinterpretation. Investors may make an incorrect evaluation, leading to a financial loss. The major purpose of this project is to create a dashboard that appropriately assesses Southeast Asian states' economic stability. The primary goals of this research are to determine the techniques and requirements of an economic stability indicator dashboard for ASEAN countries, to create a console utilizing Big Data methods and to assess the usefulness of this system. This study employs the Rapid Application Development paradigm, which was chosen for its ability to efficiently build a system within a small time frame. The objectives are met successfully within the specified stages through Technology Acceptance Model. There are four dimensions were evaluated namely Perceived Ease of Use, Perceived Usefulness, Attitude and Intention to Use. The participants comprised both salaried Malaysians from various industries and self-employed people. The system's average score for all dimensions is 4.76 shows that the dashboard can help consumers make better decisions. This study is suggested to has prediction and machine learning to be used as a prediction model for future implementation.

In this paper, we discuss the requirements elicitation for a web-based system that provides a dyslexia early screening test and dyslexia information resources. Related works such as screening tool and websites were reviewed in order to highlight their key features and functionalities. This information was used to guide the suitable functional and non-functional requirements for the online assessment and assistance which would serve the interest of the educators, parents, individuals with dyslexia and system administrators who would be responsible in the system operation and maintenance. The screening tool was designed by adapting the Instrumen Senarai Semak Disleksia (ISD) that has already been used by teachers in Malaysian schools to identify if a child has high or low probability of having dyslexic. The result from the test would determine if a child needs further examination by medical practitioner and registration in special education inclusive program.

This study focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of SafeSteps, a mobile application dedicated to child pedestrian safety. Employing multimedia elements, SafeSteps imparts knowledge on pedestrian safety to children, with an integrated quiz module enhancing learning activities. The project development adhered to the Waterfall Model Methodology, encompassing distinct stages of analysis, design, implementation, testing, and documentation. Guided by the principles of persuasive technology and multimedia, the application was developed using Android Studio as the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) tool. A User Experience Testing (UXT) involving 31 children aged six to twelve aimed to assess engagement, identify usability concerns, and discover areas for enhancement. Utilizing the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ), the study gathered feedback, revealing a majority expressing a positive perception of SafeSteps in terms of attractiveness, efficiency, perspicuity, dependability, stimulation, and novelty. The UXT findings offer significant insights into user perceptions and interactions with SafeSteps. This information will be instrumental in identifying potential areas for improvement, implementing design modifications, and enhancing the overall user experience of the mobile application, emphasizing the importance of incorporating multimedia and interactive elements in child pedestrian safety interventions.

This paper discusses the design of interactive gamified assessments for an introductory programming course based on the multimedia segmenting principle and gamification. The objective is to develop more engaging online programming assessments for low-achieving students. The general design follows Nielsen's design guidelines and incorporates Zaharias' usability evaluation framework with the motivation to learn. The methodology employed the Successive Approximation Model Version 2 (SAM2), comprising two key phases: preparation and iterative design. In the initial phase, a comparative analysis was performed to determine the design principles. The iterative design phase encompassed the application's design via storyboards, the development of the high-fidelity prototype, and users' reviews. A qualitative approach was adopted, involving a user-centred design (UCD) session through focus group discussions with 12 first-year students from the Diploma of Computer Science program, all of whom were low achievers in programming. The participants need to review and rate the prototype based on the scales of the usability recommendations, which are visual design, content design, navigation, interaction, gamification design, and multimedia design. The results from the UCD session revealed that all participants agreed with the usability recommendations integrated into the interactive gamified programming assessments, with the highest mean score of 5.00.

Designing and developing a mobile health intervention that focuses on menopausal symptom management and emotional support for women should be grounded by some knowledge about their problems and needs. Therefore, to gather information about the issues surrounding women in their menopausal phase, review of literatures pertaining to the topic was conducted, followed by a brief preliminary investigation (PI) using online survey method which was administered to Malaysian women for two weeks. The purpose of PI was to examine their awareness about menopause, namely its phases and symptoms management, as well as methods of information searching on menopause. Respondents were also inquired about their requirements from mobile app to support management of menopause. A total of 30 respondents answered the survey, with majority of them were between the ages of 40 and 59 years old. It was discovered that menopausal women had experienced variety of symptoms, some could be intense more often than the others, and they use diary or book to record these symptoms, which is deemed ineffective. It is imperative to help Malaysian women to manage this unavoidable phase of their lives in a more convenient approach. Therefore, a mobile app that supports symptoms management, and provides educational and motivational tips in Malay language is proposed.

Constructivism is a learning theory that emphasizes learners’ intervention through self-guided exploration, reflection, and evaluation. This study discusses on the integration of the Constructivist Learning Environments (CLEs) in designing a multimedia learning application for cyber-bullying intervention among adolescents. The application has been evaluated using Alpha Testing and Beta Testing technique to ensure its quality. From this evaluation, the researcher was also able to identify weaknesses or problems associated with the usage of the application, from the viewpoint of the content and multimedia expert and also the target user group which are the adolescents. By integrating CLEs, it is expected that knowledge and awareness is constructed by the learners as they reconcile new information with past experiences, analyze various source materials, and work collaboratively with others. As CLEs stimulates active learning, it is hoped that leaners will develop advanced skills such as critical thinking, analysis, evaluation, and creation. As CLEs promotes diverse viewpoints, it encourages students to reflect, evaluate their work, and identify intermediary skills to acquire based on their needs. It is also expected that the development of the multimedia app in this study will contributed to an increase in the number of computer-based applications intended to expose adolescents to the issue of cyber-bullying, which is still under-developed, particularly in the context of adolescents in Malaysia.

Hygiene care is a basic human need, but very essential practice that must be taught since childhood. Personal hygiene involves making sure body parts are clean to avoid from health issues caused by poor cleanliness. Parents ultimately bear the responsibility to teach their children about cleanliness, and normally this is done by showing and practising hygiene care themselves. Nevertheless, it is not that easy to educate personal hygiene care to them, especially in the ages of four to six years old, because they are actively playing and exploring their environments. To aid parents, mobile learning app could be employed because hygiene habits can be shown via more engaging ways such as through pictures and video clips of personal hygiene care, simple drag and drop games, and pictorial quiz. In this study, a mobile learning app with game-based approach has been developed by following the software development life cycle Spiral model. During evaluation phase, a heuristic evaluation with five Computer Science lecturers was conducted to examine the usability of the app. Results from the evaluation were used as guidance to refine and improvise the app so that they will be usable and enjoyable for children.

Difficulty in finding the destination around a campus is a common problem faced by students, staffs and visitors of a university. Outdated signboards, confusing building architecture and layout, and bad weathers are just some of the hindrance to find location for people who are unfamiliar with the campus area. To solve the problem, virtual campus tour is chosen because it can also be embedded into a university website, or use as a stand-alone app. The virtual campus tour which can be accessed as mobile app or web app, can help users in visualizing their journey around campus because it was developed using collections of panoramic video footage, which allows user to watch in 360-degree view of selected campus area. Administrative building, academic blocks and residential college are some of the destinations included in the tour. Due to the need to create and test components of the product iteratively, Agile method was employed as the development methodology. Agile supports high integration between development and testing phase. This paper discusses the development process of the virtual campus tour, which were encapsulated in the four phases of Agile methodology, requirement phase, design phase, development phase and test feedback phase.

The aim for this research is to design and develop a web-based child health record system with appointment notification. This system has the ability to record all the medical information about a child such as the height, weight, treatments and medical conditions. It also has the ability to record the visits and immunization details, reminder for next visits and immunization appointments. A User Experience (UX) Test were conducted during the study to evaluate the system. User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ) is the instrument that is being utilized during the UX Testing to evaluate the user experience quality of a product. UEQ has been divided into six scales which are attractiveness, perspicuity, efficiency, dependability, stimulation and novelty. During the UX Testing, the users were given a chance to explore and evaluate the system. The result from the UX Testing indicates that most of the users agree that the system is attractive, perspicuity, efficiency, dependability, stimulation and novelty. In conclusion, this research has achieved the objectives which are to design, develop and evaluate a Web-Based Child Health Record System with Appointment Notifications.

Signalised intersections is deemed amongst complex issues in road safety control system. Due to the growing number of crashes at signalised intersection every year in Malaysia, this research aims at understanding driver behaviour at signalised intersection. This paper discusses the methods to analyse driver behaviour at signalised intersection, which consist of field data collection using video recording technique and administration of a survey pertaining to driving behaviour within dilemma zones with selected participants (car driver).The methods are designed to gain a better understanding of driver behavioursthat influence their decisionmaking of non-compliance at signalised intersection, within the dilemma zones.The main goal is to reveal driver responses at dilemma zone during amber signal light, with respect to the vehicle distance from stop line, signal timing and approaching speed.

This paper demonstrates the design of augmented reality (AR) in-car driving simulator system architecture and its experimental design. AR in-car driving simulator is developed in order to explore its effect towards subjects' simulator sickness when operating the driving simulator. Sensory conflict theory postulates that simulator sickness is a condition where an information between vestibular input system and visual that provides orientation and movement information is misaligned. Simulator sickness is a well-known issue entangled with simulator and various past research revealed that some of the methods to avoid simulator sickness are by taking prescribed medicine, shortening the length of drives and adjusting light of driving simulation environment. Augmented reality allows a combination between real world views with computer-generated object and runs in a real-time performance. By using AR, it is possible to create an outdoor driving simulator that allows a real world view with a mixture of case study that been replicate by computer. Affording similar driving experience to driving a normal car, AR is believed to be an alternative solution to simulator sickness. Therefore, the AR driving simulator would be employed in experimental study to measure its effect on simulator sickness towards subjects.

This paper discusses the design and development of an adventure game about cybercrime. This game uses variety of multimedia elements including text, animation, image and 3D objects. The theme of this game focuses on identity theft and phishing. Therefore, the purpose of the game is to educate the learners about cybercrime and enhance their awareness towards online activities that could victimized them. This would ensure that they take precautions of their safety while using the Internet. In this research, agile method is used as the development methodology. It includes five phases which are brainstorm, design, development, quality assurance and deployment. The completed game was used as a treatment in a user testing involving 26 students from UiTMCawangan Perlis from different ages, gender, course and faculty. After treatment, subjects were administered with two instruments to measure their perception of awareness towards cybercrime and their perception of fun for the game. It was revealed that most subjects agreed that they had an increase in awareness after exposure to the game. The game was also positively perceived as fun, with regards to its graphical and instructional design, contents relevance with the theme and suitability of game duration. Some recommendations for future enhancements are also discussed.

This paper discusses the development and evaluation of an exploration game for Mandarin language. The game focuses on mastering basic vocabularies in Mandarin for non-native speakers. Emphasis is given on word recall and pronunciation of Chinese characters. The evaluation consisted of testing session with students to discover the effects of the game towards the students’ confidence in word recall and pronunciation of Chinese characters. The target audience of the project is students in UiTMPerlis Branch, who undertake Level 1 Mandarin language course. The research methodology that was used in this project is spiral model. There are four phases in the spiral model which are game idea specification, game design prototype, playtesting and evaluation. Game interface was designed by using Unity 3D software. The exploration game was constructed by integrating two elements from Octalysis’ game framework into the exploration game which are ownership and avoidance. Ownership is the element where players are inspired to complete the game when they have sense of owning something. Avoidance element is based on the avoidance of negative circumstances. Testing phase employs user testing which was conducted with 19 bachelor degree students from Level 1 Mandarin language class. From the results, it was discovered that generally, the exploration game has positively influenced the students’ confidence to recall and to pronounce Chinese characters. This could signify that exploration game is a promising tool in elevating confidence among language learners.

This paper explores contemporary issues surrounding the teaching of reading towards dyslexic children in Malaysia. The objectives of the literature review and preliminary investigation were to ascertain the complexity of the issues, and to make informed decisions that warrant the development of educational app targeted for educators. It was discovered that children with dyslexia would normally experience distinctive learning difficulties than other children of learning disabilities. Nevertheless, the study revealed that most of them did not receive suitable classroom intervention. When teaching reading to these children, teachers should be aware of the major causes of their reading difficulties, and then employs strategies that could accommodate their personal strengths and weaknesses. Dyslexic children are often stigmatised and isolated by teachers and friends; therefore, it is vital to provide equal opportunity to learn for them. The result of this study calls for serious deliberation to train teachers about effective literacy intervention techniques that are precisely tailored for children with dyslexia.