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Recognizing culture based religious icons from muslim culture user interface design (MCUID) prototype
No full textEver since Allah has used metaphor to send His messages to mankind through Al Quran. Inspired from it, this study is to examine how metaphor could be integrated in the interface design. The phenomena nowadays, numbers of metaphor worlds and their participants that growing rapidly, primarily is a Western Culture dominated environment. Attention paid to other culture is still very little. The study examines this issue from an Islamic perspective. There is an assumption that if metaphor worlds are to become a truly global platform for users then it will be essential to "encode" the flexibility for social interactions to take place in a way that is sensitive to other cultures and most important matters that could give values to the target users. The key concern is to shift the focus of development from standard interface design to Islamic interface design. A framework has been developed adapted from Culture Centered Design. Important features have been added to the framework especially on Islamic values as a way of life and a journey towards Allah. Furthermore, an interface prototype known as Muslim Centered User Interface Design (MCUID) is created. Empirical investigation through evaluating the prototype has been done to tabulate the patterns on how Muslim users’ perceptions towards recognizing culture based religious icons in MCUID prototype. The findings are analyzed using Atlas.ti 7 both in qualitative and quantitative measurements
Muslim Centred user interface design prototype / Zan Azma Nasruddin and Husnayati Hussin
Full text linkThere are challenges and dilemmas in recognizing values and ideals in culture on interface design. Every culture shares different experiences and values (Lakoff, G., Johnson, 1980). As value added in interface design related to the culture, the element of culture values should play an important role so that users are encouraged to feel the beauty of them in computer interface. Currently, majority of the designs are from USA, their interfaces have therefore been primarily based on American metaphors, representations, and associations logics. The standardization of information technology has the advantage of compatibility. Marcus recommends that designers “would do well to consider their own cultural orientation and to understand the preferred structures and process of other cultures” (Marcus & Gould, 2000). While some works have been reported on the development of metaphors and icons design based on Chinese culture (Shen, 2006) and African culture (Heukelman, 2006), none have been explored for desktop interface design for Islamic culture. Good Islamic values should be practiced all the time even in computer usage. Considering Muslims are among the computer users in everyday life, it comes as a big responsibility as a designer to insert values on interface design as to educate and as a reminder to the users. Thus, the development of the interface prototype called Muslim Centered User Interface Design (MCUID) is created based on the Culture Centered Design (CCD) framework. The framework is an adaptation of Shen et. al (2006) work on cultural filter. There are two types of filters in the framework. The first filter dedicated for a designer. The designer comes from cultural origin, and then he identifies a target group, which are among Muslim users. Next, the designer understands the target user’s cultural data which is focusing on Islamic culture. Later, the designer creates visual images for the interface design based on personal experience and observation in particular socio-cultural background, knowledge from literature review including Quran and hadith. Other factors that shape up designer’s view include technology, usability and mental models. The second filter is dedicated to user, Whenever the mental model between designer and user are matched, the product (interface design) is considered successful. In developing technology, the question of the responsibilities of the designer as the ones with technological knowledge and expertise is very significant. Islam emphasis that all men should be responsible for their own doing. Designers should use their knowledge conscientiously for the good community. Through the interface prototype design called MCUID, the image of the mosque is used as background to represent an Islamic identity. Besides, metaphor icons are created to represent analogies in Islamic values. MCUID is hoped to educate or as reminder to computer user because MCUID enriched with values in Islamic culture. Therefore, possibly, technology could be shaped by Muslims designers by giving more meaningful user experience towards the interface design. The evaluation on MCUID was done among students from UiTM and students from Darul Quran. There were several patterns of findings were discovered. The findings were analysed using Atlas.ti 7
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Evaluating construction defect mobile application using think aloud / Zan Azma Nasruddin … [et al.]
Full text linkConstruction Defect mobile application (app) is used by Ministry of Defense's Construction Defect Inspection Team to help the team in recording construction defect. However, the mobile app has never been evaluated formally to identify any usability problems. The objectives of this study are to identify usability problems of Construction Defect mobile app using think aloud and to recommend design improvement of Construction Defect mobile app based on the identified usability problems. The think aloud study involved 15 participants. During the evaluation, every participant carried out the given tasks and gave his impressions as he went along the tasks. Three usability problems were identified. Some recommendations have been proposed to improve the design of Construction Defect mobile app. As for the future work, the study may be conducted using different usability evaluation technique
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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