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Measuring usability of educational computer games based on the user success rate 基于用户成功率衡量教育类电脑游戏的可用性

2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research Pub Date : 2011-06-06 DOI: 10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008500

Marina Ismail, N. Diah, Suzan Ahmad, N. Kamal, Mohd Khairulnizam Md Dahari

{"title":"Measuring usability of educational computer games based on the user success rate","authors":"Marina Ismail, N. Diah, Suzan Ahmad, N. Kamal, Mohd Khairulnizam Md Dahari","doi":"10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008500","url":null,"abstract":"Children learn through play [1]. According to Crawford [2] educational game is the children's first contact with the computer. Therefore, it is important that the computer games for children are well designed and usable. Usability testing can also be adopted to assess learner's motivation towards learning. Assessing the usability with children requires special consideration. Children must be allowed to play freely and expressed their opinion while being observed. This study explores the measuring consideration for the usability of an educational game called Jelajah. Jelajah, was designed to teach pre-schools children to learn the Malay words and was developed based on a solid research on educational approaches. Five pre-school children were selected for this study. During the usability testing session, children are observed and their behaviors are recorded in an observation checklist. The session was video-taped for further observation. A post test was administered after the session to seek the children's satisfaction in using the game for learning. Data collected were quantitative and qualitative data. Data were later quantified to measure the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction towards the software. Based on the analysis, children showed interest and were highly motivated to learn when using educational game for learning.","PeriodicalId":193430,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126336984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 28

Dual-tariff PV energy system — An alternative to PV energy system in Malaysia 双关税光伏能源系统-马来西亚光伏能源系统的替代方案

2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research Pub Date : 2011-06-06 DOI: 10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008481

I. R. Ibrahim, N. S. Damanhuri, N. A. Othman, R. Radzali, M. N. Mohd, M. K. Hamzah

引用次数: 5

Stigmasterol from a Pandanus and Myrmecodia species 香豆属和桃金娘属一种的豆甾醇

2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research Pub Date : 2011-06-06 DOI: 10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008492

I. W. Abdul, N. Mohamad, H. H. Mizaton, H. F. Mohsin, T. Ponto

{"title":"Stigmasterol from a Pandanus and Myrmecodia species","authors":"I. W. Abdul, N. Mohamad, H. H. Mizaton, H. F. Mohsin, T. Ponto","doi":"10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008492","url":null,"abstract":"The isolation of compounds 1 and 2, respectively from two unrelated plants [a Pandanus (Pandanaceae) and a Myrmecodia (Rubiaceae)] is presented. According to the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, both biomolecules could be a triterpene. The NMR data from P. tectorius' phytosterol was compared, where a mixture of stigmasterol:β-sitosterol (2:1) was reported. However, the signals for an exo-methylene group likewise in Pandanus' antitubercular tirucallane, did not appear in the 1H-NMR spectrum of 1 and 2 (500 MHz, δ<inf>H</inf> 0.5–5.5 ppm, CDCl<inf>3</inf>). Furthermore, the 13C-NMR spectroscopy (125 MHz, δ<inf>C</inf> 10–141 ppm, CDCl<inf>3</inf>) suggested 1 and 2 as a non-ketosteroid of possibly 29 carbon atoms. Both equally could be an aglycon triterpenoid, due to the absence of 13C-NMR signals at δ<inf>C</inf> 60–110, which are carbons' signals, assigned for sugar moieties. However, one 13C-NMR peak at δ<inf>C</inf> 71.81 and 71.82 [C-3 (OH)] was detected, respectively for 1 and 2. Therefore, the occurrence of a hydroxylated stigmastane-like molecule was proposed. Instead, two sets of -C=C- bonds (1: δ<inf>C</inf> 140.76; 129.29 and 138.29; 121.70); (2: δ<inf>C</inf> 140.78; 129.31 and 138.29; 121.70) were observed. From 2D NMR spectra, 1 was recognised as stigmata-(5,22)-diene-3-ol or stigmasterol. Stigmasterol was also reported from a Hydnophytum species, another epiphytic myrmecophytes associated with Myrmecodia. Recrystallizations were performed to purify crystal 2 (13.4 mg colorless needles; R<inf>f</inf> = 0.2), which was also proposed as a type-1 molecule. In short, stigmasterol was identified as the major non-polar component from these two plant extracts.","PeriodicalId":193430,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134435015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

xLearning — A new paradigm of on-line learning xLearning——在线学习的新范例

2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research Pub Date : 2011-06-06 DOI: 10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008501

K. Nagi

引用次数: 1

Dynamic causal modelling for schizophrenia 精神分裂症的动态因果模型

2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research Pub Date : 2011-06-06 DOI: 10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008504

M. Nagori, W. Ranjana, M. Joshi

{"title":"Dynamic causal modelling for schizophrenia","authors":"M. Nagori, W. Ranjana, M. Joshi","doi":"10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008504","url":null,"abstract":"Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder which leads to local abnormalities in brain activity. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) technology enables medical doctors to observe brain activity patterns that represent the execution of subject tasks, both physical and mental. In general, each subject exhibits his own activation pattern for a given task, whose intensity is affected by the physiology of the subject's brain, the usage of medications, and the parameters of the scanner used for image acquisition. Since it is possible to co-register the resulting activation map to a standard brain, all activation patterns from the different individuals can be analyzed in terms of consistency on the brain sections or brain coordinates where the activation is observed. The dynamic Causal Model using Bayesian networks (DBNs) extracts causal relationships from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data applying HITON-PC, a local causal algorithm. Based on these relationships, a dynamic causal model is to be build that is used to classify patient data as belonging to healthy or ill subjects. Causal Explorer is a Matlab library of computational causal discovery and variable selection algorithms.","PeriodicalId":193430,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126570418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Notice of RetractionFactors associated with the adoption of improved cook stoves in southern parts of India 印度南部地区采用改良炉灶的相关因素通知

2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research Pub Date : 2011-06-06 DOI: 10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008490

K. Pushpa

{"title":"Notice of RetractionFactors associated with the adoption of improved cook stoves in southern parts of India","authors":"K. Pushpa","doi":"10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008490","url":null,"abstract":"The Improved cook stoves popularised under the National Programme of Improved Chulhas in India claims more than double the thermal efficiency of the conventional cook stoves and several health and environmental benefits to the users and their micro environment with overall benefits at macro level. But several studies have indicated a low rate of adoption of this technology by the prospective users to whom the cook stove had been given either free or at subsidized price. This unhealthy trend in the adoption of improved wood stove had to be checked for ensuring success in programme implementation. The overall objective of the study was to assess the level of adoption of the improved cook stoves in the study locale and to understand the factors promoting or precluding its adoption. An analytical survey design was followed for the study. An interview schedule with an attitude scale and a technology rating scale developed by the investigator was used for data gathering. Family size, family occupation and age of the beneficiaries were the variables associated with the level of adoption of the improved cook stoves. Majority of the adopters exhibited a neutral attitude towards the cook stoves. Very few families rated the technology as highly appropriate. This paper analyses the variables associated with the adoption of improved cook stoves in rural areas of southern India.","PeriodicalId":193430,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130841314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

Modified PTS with FECs for PAPR reduction in MIMO-OFDM system with different subcarriers 在具有不同子载波的MIMO-OFDM系统中，带fec的改进PTS降低PAPR

2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research Pub Date : 2011-06-06 DOI: 10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008507

P. Mukunthan, P. Dananjayan

{"title":"Modified PTS with FECs for PAPR reduction in MIMO-OFDM system with different subcarriers","authors":"P. Mukunthan, P. Dananjayan","doi":"10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008507","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple input multiple output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems have been proposed in the recent past for providing high-data rate services over wireless channels. When combined with space time coding it provides the advantages of space-time coding and OFDM, resulting in a spectrally efficient wideband communication system. However, MIMO-OFDM systems suffer with the problem of inherent high peak to average power ratio (PAPR) due to the intersymbol interference between the subcarriers. In this paper, a generalized framework for PAPR reduction for space-time coded OFDM systems based on modified PTS using forward error-correcting codes (FECs) such as Turbo codes and Golay codes are employed in the modified PTS radix FFT, where, the PAPR is jointly optimized in both the real and imaginary parts, separately multiplied with phase factors when dividing the subcarriers into 4 subgroups. The simulation results show that the combined FEC with modified PTS technique significantly provides better PAPR reduction with reduced computational complexity compared to original PTS technique in the MIMO-OFDM systems.","PeriodicalId":193430,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114860554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 10

Agent-based MOM for interoperability cross-platform communication of SOA systems 用于SOA系统的互操作性跨平台通信的基于代理的MOM

2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research Pub Date : 2011-06-06 DOI: 10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008496

Najhan M. Ibrahim, M. Hassan, Zain Balfagih

{"title":"Agent-based MOM for interoperability cross-platform communication of SOA systems","authors":"Najhan M. Ibrahim, M. Hassan, Zain Balfagih","doi":"10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008496","url":null,"abstract":"Demands for interoperability are getting increased since there are a lot of products available to provide the same functionality which have raised some heterogeneous issues. Various middleware technologies are often used as the communication infrastructure for distributed system to ensure the interoperability. However, different types of middleware have cause interoperability issues as well. One of the middleware architectures used for heterogeneous systems is MOM. Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) is known as common glue technology for heterogeneous, distributed and loosely coupled software system. In this paper we explore and analyze studies related to distributed communication using MOM architecture. We found that there are some weaknesses for MOM such as limited ability to link complex application, losing the trace of execution and low level of autonomous. To overcome these weaknesses, some researches have been done to extend MOM architecture. Most of these efforts are addressing one or two of the MOM limitations and not the general requirement of cross-platform communication such 24 by 7 environment, autonomous level, failure recovery and guaranteed transmission. In the end, we have proposed conceptual framework which is agent-based MOM for interoperability cross-platform communication of SOA system.","PeriodicalId":193430,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131934310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 5

Evaluating the usability and acceptance of multimedia web-based education among children 评估儿童对多媒体网络教育的可用性和接受程度

2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research Pub Date : 2011-06-06 DOI: 10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008497

Suzana Baharudin, Marina Ismail, Suzan Ahmad, Nurazian Mior Dahalan

{"title":"Evaluating the usability and acceptance of multimedia web-based education among children","authors":"Suzana Baharudin, Marina Ismail, Suzan Ahmad, Nurazian Mior Dahalan","doi":"10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008497","url":null,"abstract":"Development of a software product needs to be evaluated to ensure that it meets the objective. There are many ways to evaluate a software product. Software are tested for its functionality, usability, completeness and also the acceptance. This study evaluated the usability and acceptance of a multimedia web based education among children. The web based education that was tested for this study is called ‘Adikku Sayang.com’, a website that teaches children to learn Bahasa Melayu. The website has been developed based on sound theory in teaching and learning, pedagogical and multimedia concept. Hundred children at the age between 4–7 years old from all over Malaysia have been selected to participate in this test. This research involves ethnography field testing that were conducted through observation and interview. The evaluation components that were evaluated are the speed of system's performance, rate of error, user retention of command overtime, user satisfaction, terminology used, screen testing and learning ability and the acceptance towards the website. Data collected from the study are analyzed using SPSS based on its mean. The result showed that the website is accepted by the children as a website that can be used to teach the introduction to learning Bahasa Melayu. The usability test also showed that the website is usable for children in the age group between 4 to 7 years old.","PeriodicalId":193430,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114466513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 3

Visual speech recognition of Modern Classic Arabic language 现代古典阿拉伯语的视觉语音识别

2011 International Symposium on Humanities, Science and Engineering Research Pub Date : 2011-06-06 DOI: 10.1109/SHUSER.2011.6008499

Pascal Damien

引用次数: 9