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Malaysia is located in Southeast Asia and comprises 13 states and three federal territories. Malaysia has a population of about 28.3 million people (Department of Statistics Malaysia 2009). According to the Department of Statistics, Malaysia, for the year 2009, Malaysia’s gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national income per capita are USD 42.9 billion and USD 7,400 respectively. The latest unemployment...
Communication methods and tools are key factors in developing online intercultural communities, especially when community members use their own mother tongue. This chapter introduces a case of an online intercultural community for international youths in NPO Pangaea. Youths and volunteer staff are from different countries and communication in this community is not English-based. Pictograms are used...
Delivering mHealth applications requires a mHealth ecosystem and this paper will present the development of an ecosystem of mHealth applications to be deployed at remote and rural villages that do not enjoy the same health benefits as in urban areas. Some evidence was found to indicate advantages of mHealth applications in supporting healthy living and wellness behavioural change among the people...
This paper discusses remote health monitoring as a potential application field in telecentres at rural areas. We present the challenges faced and opportunities with emphasis on patients with hypertension using a remote health monitoring system. We will also discuss the potential of deploying mHealth applications as a value added to the telecentres. The remote blood pressure health monitoring system...
Orthography system development process is vital to help in the language documentation. Language documentation is useful to preserve the indigenous languages. There are many approaches that had been taken by the linguists to develop the orthography system. Unfortunately, the method that is used by the linguists to develop the orthography system is not feasible. As the linguists need to travel to the...
This paper reports on the use of a proposed methodological framework called PRISMA (Participatory Action Research in Software Development Methodology Augmentation) to support and design a mobile-based healthcare application for a remote Penan community in Malaysian Borneo. PRISMA employs participatory action research (PAR). The approach has been successfully applied in projects with rural communities...
Pashto, as a native language is spoken by about 28 million people in parts of Pakistan and over 13 million people in the south, east, west and a few Northern provinces of Afghanistan. Pashto allows clitics to be inserted into morphological words. The clitics with this property are called endoclitics.This paper presents an account of Pashto Endoclitics and the unique challenge posed by these clitics...
The purpose of this research is to improve the multimodal integration technique, of multiple speech and sketch inputs in human computer interaction. In our technique, we integrated the sketch and speech representation model, taking into consideration the normalised relative distances between objects in the sketch, spatial preposition and the deictic words from the speech. We compared the proposed...
Sarawak, Malaysia, has many under-resourced languages, which stands to become extinct if measures are not taken to preserve and maintain them. These languages are mostly spoken by the indigenous groups and not all of the languages are documented or studied. As an initiative to preserve, a Text to Speech (TTS) system has been built for Iban and Bidayuh languages, two out of 44 living languages in Sarawak...
Although Human Computer Interaction (HCI) has been practised by Western countries over the last 40 years, very little is known about how HCI is being incorporated in Malaysian practices. We undertook a 12-week ethnographical study aimed at revealing HCI perceptions at different managerial levels in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) departments and agencies in Malaysia. We describe and...
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