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This paper presents the usability study of a cooking application, KitchenGeek with a wearable device, Smart M between two user groups, beginner and intermediate cookers to test if the application and device lowers the gap of time taken for both of the user groups to complete the cooking tasks. The results of this paper indicates that KitchenGeek and Smart M did lower the gap of time taken for task completion and it helps beginners to cook better than not being able to cook at all. An independent-samples t-test was conducted to compare the score of beginner and intermediate groups of cooker. The result shows that there was no significant difference in time taken to complete all cooking tasks for beginner and intermediate group of cookers (p= 0.85). This research suggests that beginners should use KitchenGeek and Smart M to improve their cooking skills and they will be able to cook at the same rate as intermediate cookers.

This paper describes our early collaborative work on holding a design challenge in discovering the emerging ideas by Malaysian students on Medini Smart City in Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia. While the masterplan of Medini Smart City is already in place, the intention of the design challenge is to recognize and to learn what would 'smart' really means to them. This implicitly contributes in strategizing and refining the Medini Smart City further to suit Malaysia's culture, values and situations so that it is in line with the generation of today. Despite sharing the outcome of the work, this paper shares the motivation of the collaboration and reflects its approach from user-centered design's perspective, and highlights how it helps in building a better smart city by understanding what people wants.

Guidelines for designing and developing a learning prototype that are compatible with the limited capabilities of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) are established in the form of a model, known as Learning Software User Interface Design Model (LSUIDM), to ensure children with CP are able to grasp the concepts of a learning software application prototype. In this paper, the LSUIDM is applied in developing a learning software application for children with CP. We present a user study on evaluating a children education game for CP children at Pemulihan dalam Komuniti in Johor Bahru. The findings from the user study shows that the game, which was built, based on the LSUIDM can be applied in the learning process for children with CP and most notably, the children are engaged and excited using the software. This paper highlights the lessons learned from the user study, which should be significant especially in improving the application. The results of the study show that the application is proven to be interactive, useful and efficient as the users used it.

In this paper, we share and reflect the current HCI practices between MIMOS Berhad and the academia, as an example of how industries such as MIMOS Berhad, can create, sustain and prolong the symbiotic collaboration between the two. We categorise the cooperation into two types: loosely and tightly couple cooperation.

The Asia Pacific region is unique and diverse. Due to its characteristics, defining what will work in the Asia Pacific region might be the hardest challenge. Human Computer Interaction (HCI) can provide guidance on how technology should be designed and adopted. On the other hand, there is a big gap on the awareness and understanding on the importance of HCI to improve the design and development of technology for living. We welcome both academia and industry and provide an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas and information on HCI. Under the big conference theme "Crossings", this symposium aims to bring about cross exchange of information and transfer of knowledge in this multidisciplinary environment and multi-socio-economic aspects of research in HCI.

Regular practice of an alpha test in system acceptance test is to involve users, who are internal to the organization, which takes place at the developers' site. The aim of an alpha test is to get early feedbacks from users and to identify bugs in order for improvements to be made. Instead of carrying out regular alpha test activities, System Usability Scale (SUS) method is used in the alpha test. The main aim of this paper is to report on how the SUS is applied as a part of an acceptance test for a newly built multi-platforms application, known as Dengue-Entomological Surveillance (DES) system. The DES system is built both as an interactive mobile application and a hybrid web application that allows its end-users; Entomology and Pest Unit (EPU) team from State Health Office of Ministry of Health of Malaysia, to collect real-time data encompassing data from ovitraps installation, automatized data analysis, as well as, entomological surveillance operations' reports concerning dengue outbreaks. Experimental design and procedures of the alpha test were carefully planned and successfully implemented. Participants' (EPU team) demographic data, execution and completion time for given tasks, and user experience on DES system comprising usability, as well as, general comments and feedbacks from users were collected and analysed. The findings of the alpha test reveal a higher percentage total of SUS score usability of the web-based application with 72.75%, as compared to 68.75% for mobile-based application.

Requirements engineering (RE) in software development life cycle is considered as a main pillar of success of a software system. RE process is used to find out the key requirements in order to develop a system as per needs of the stakeholders. The two focal points in RE process are stakeholders and requirements. Systematic literature review (SLR) is the mean of collecting evidence-based data about the key areas of a research topic and its related issues. In this paper, a study of existing SLRs on RE is conducted in order to find out the key intricacies dealt in the domain of RE. The main purpose of this study is to aggregate the knowledge in the domain of software RE as elicited in different SLRs about different RE problems.

To achieve realism in computer graphics traditionally requires increasingly complex algorithms, along with greater computer power and hardware resources. However, the recent growing integration of perception research into computer graphics offers a more economical solution. Psychophysical experiments are now conducted to find out areas that can be manipulated to transform complex computations to “computation cuts”. This perception based approach provides better resource consumption to elements that matters most to humans, so the output is still perceived as visually correct. This paper explores the opportunity to apply perceptual concepts in the development of V-Hajj; a 3D simulation application for Tawaf (a Hajj ritual) training. Recent findings from related psychophysical experiments are discussed to identify at which prospect perception can be applied in V-Hajj. It is ultimately believed that integrating perceptual concepts would help in developing a more efficient and less consumptive real-time rendering techniques that further improve user immersion and interactivity.

Software maintenance (SM) environment is highly complex, knowledge-driven and collaborative. Therefore, knowledge management system (KMS) is critical to provide an environment for sharing and sustaining knowledge among members of SM community of practice (CoP). Several KM retrieval tools are compared to identify the areas that could be improved. One of the important but least available knowledge required by maintainers is the Domain Business knowledge and the relations to the application SM process knowledge. We propose a new tool based on Multi-Agent System (MAS) to address this issue and to assist CoP members to get the right knowledge at the right time.

Value-based requirements engineering plays a vital role in the development of value-based software (VBS). Stakeholders are the key players in the requirements engineering process, and the selection of critical stakeholders for the VBS systems is highly desirable. Based on the stakeholder requirements, the innovative or value-based idea is realized. The quality of the VBS system is associated with the concrete set of valuable requirements, and the valuable requirements can only be obtained if all the relevant valuable stakeholders participate in the requirements elicitation phase. The existing value-based approaches focus on the design of the VBS systems. However, the focus on the valuable stakeholders and requirements is inadequate. The current stakeholder identification and quantification (SIQ) approaches are neither state-of-the-art nor systematic for the VBS systems. The existing approaches are time-consuming, complex and inconsistent which makes the initiation process difficult. Moreover, the main motivation of this research is that the existing SIQ approaches do not provide the low level implementation details for SIQ initiation and stakeholder metrics for quantification. Hence, keeping in view the existing SIQ problems, this research contributes in the form of a new SIQ framework called ‘StakeMeter’. The StakeMeter framework is verified and validated through case studies. The proposed framework provides low-level implementation guidelines, attributes, metrics, quantification criteria and application procedure as compared to the other methods. The proposed framework solves the issues of stakeholder quantification or prioritization, higher time consumption, complexity, and process initiation. The framework helps in the selection of highly critical stakeholders for the VBS systems with less judgmental error.

Analysis and design are the key phases in any software development life cycle. Service identification is one of the most important steps performed in the analysis phase of service-oriented software development life cycle. Service-orientation has been applied successfully in the domain of distributed embedded real-time system because of the advantages it provides such as reusability and interoperability. However, a systematic service-oriented development methodology for distributed embedded real-time system is still missing. A step-by-step guideline for service identification is presented in this study as part of an attempt to define the analysis phase of service-oriented software development life cycle for distributed embedded real-time system. The Smart Home case study is applied to verify the guidelines. This study provides profound descriptions on how to identify services for distributed embedded real-time system. Moreover, this work can be used as a first step towards a systematic service-oriented software development life cycle for distributed embedded real-time systems.