
Girish BekarooMiddlesex University
Girish Bekaroo
BSc (Hons.), MSc, PhD, PGCert HE
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As human beings are becoming increasingly dependent on technology, the relationship of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with the natural environment is continuously degrading. In the past, ICT was often regarded as a low-carbon enabler but its widespread adoption has adversely turned it into a power drainer. The negative consequence...
Being regarded as a problem of global dimensions, marine litter has been a growing concern that affects human beings, wildlife and the economic health of coastal communities to varying degrees. Due to its involvement with human behavior, marine littering has been regarded as a cultural matter encompassing macro and micro level aspects. At the micro...
Personal travelling unfavourably contributes to the emissions of greenhouse gases, which adversely causes long-term damage to the climate. In order to reduce the associated negative impacts of such activities on the environment, there is a wide consensus that enhancements and innovations in the efficiency of vehicles will not be enough, but behavio...
During the previous few years, there has been an escalating number of cyberattacks against web-based systems, that adversely resulted in significant data breaches, losses and reputational damages for businesses. Among these cyberattacks, cross-site scripting attacks, also known as XSS attacks, gained significant attention, which makes is imperative...
During the previous decade, renowned companies such as Tesla, Ford and Volkswagen have actively been researching and investing in the production of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). The vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology, which is used to operate CAVs, has recently gained considerable attention due to its various benefits such as improve...
Distracted driving is a significant issue that has sparked extensive research in detection and mitigation methods, with previous studies exploring physiological sensors but finding them intrusive, leading to the rise of computer vision techniques, particularly deep learning, for non-intrusive and real-time detection. While recent research has demon...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) serve as the essential framework for tackling the complex contemporary challenges and it is imperative to take meaningful steps towards their advancement so as to foster sustainability and cultivate an improved future for global well-being. Digital technologies are considered among the key enablers for advan...
The term ‘intelligent environment’ (IE) refers to a physical space that is enhanced by digital technologies. Such environments are designed to improve the quality of life of the people who live or work in them, and are equipped with technologies such as sensing systems and artificial intelligence which can detect changes in the environment, anticip...
For the last decades, Sustainable Development has been encouraged to be integrated into the operations of business organisations. Businesses are being blamed to cause environmental degradation and social problems because of their unsustainable activities. However, to know whether businesses are implementing sustainable strategies in their operation...
Agriculture is a key pillar of the economy of the Republic of Mauritius, and 46% of the island is under agricultural cultivation. There has been a boost in the production of food crops owing to the need for Mauritius to become self-sufficient in the recent years, thus decreasing food security issues in the island. As a Small Island Developing State...
Extended reality (XR) technologies entails a group of innovative and immersive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and cinematic reality (CR), which bring physical objects into digital environments and take digital objects into physical reality. Recently, these technologies have undergone rapid development and are inc...
Environmental degradation has become a major concern around the world. Fostering pro-environmental behaviour is considered among key solutions to reduce impacts towards conservation and rehabilitation of the environment. Various stakeholders have been developing strategies to promote pro-environmental behaviour, especially from an early age that is...
Whilst climate change has been regarded as a growing concern in recent years due the disruptive and detrimental effects experienced across the globe, one of its most compelling and threatening evidence is Sea Level Rise (SLR). This phenomenon is more prominent in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and such islands are already facing escalating a...
Accelerated advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics have recently boosted the proliferation and adoption of robotic systems within various industries. In order to improve the capabilities of such systems that range from enabling remote processing to enhanced access to data, there has been integration of the cloud, and this gave rise to...
Mauritius is a popular destination for tourists who visit the island for the sun, sea and sand in addition to tourism activities. Although the consumption of tourism activities brings various benefits to the island, there have been concerns over the adverse impacts of such activities on the marine and coastal environment, such as loss of biodiversi...
An essential component of the job recruitment process involves conducting interviews, during which decision is made on the appropriateness of a candidate for a particular job. An important challenge faced by interviewers during the recruitment process relates to determining whether or not selected candidates will attend the job interview. Candidate...
Digital technologies form an integral part of sound production. To meet industry requirements, audio processing and modulation are taught in computer science-related courses within modules such as multimedia, data communications and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). However, due to the complexity of the subject, teaching and...
Air pollution is one of the great challenges facing modern cities. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 80% of people living in cities with air quality monitoring facilities are living in conditions where the quality of the air is well beyond the limits set out in the air quality guidelines. As more and more people are projected to mov...
The main duty of the cabin crew is to ensure the safety of all passengers onboard and are crucial during emergency situations. It is mandatory for cabin crew to attend the annual Emergency Procedures Training (EPT) to be able to operate as cabin crew regardless of the seniority. Despite the high importance, this training can be long and bulky leadi...
Purpose
This paper aims to explore the use of tangible user interfaces for teaching concepts related to internet of things by focusing on two aspects, notably, usability and learning effectiveness.
Design/methodology/approach
To assess the usability of IoTTT, Nielsen’s principles were used due to its relevance and popularity for usability assessme...
A chatbot is a software that is able to autonomously communicate with a human being through text and due to its usefulness, an increasing number of businesses are implementing such tools in order to provide timely communication to their clients. In the past, whilst literature has focused on implementing innovative chatbots and the evaluation of suc...
During recent years, there has been an increase in cyber-crime and cybercriminal activities around the world and as countermeasures, effective attack prevention and detection mechanisms are needed. A popular tool to augment existing attack detection mechanisms is the Honeypot. It serves as a decoy for luring attackers, with the purpose to accumulat...
Marine litter has been considered as a growing concern within different coastal areas around the world and to address this issue, there have been apprehensions from various stakeholders including international regulatory bodies and governmental institutions, among others. Amongst the different technologies being promoted by key stakeholders, mobile...
The aim of this project is to develop a low cost air quality monitoring system. The proposed system used the Rasp-berry Pi board, Arduino board, Grove sensors and Microsoft’s Azure based cloud service for data storage and analysis. The data was captured from the 10th of May to the 31st of August 2017 in Bonne Terre, Vacoas. It was found that during...
Small-scale fishermen face various occupational safety hazards due to unavailability of real-time weather information during fishing activities at sea. Whilst provision of such information could greatly reduce these risks, limited personal assistants exist that could support small scale fishermen in their activities at sea with real-time details on...
The Prospects of NFC for Improving Awareness on Energy Consumption of Household Electronic Appliances
With the financial technology revolution, the days of bringing out cash from well-crafted leather wallets to make payments have begun to phase out and plastic payment cards are no longer being considered as the future of financial services. An important part of this revolution is mobile wallet, which is an application of m-payment that has features...
The recent increase in the number of security attacks by cyber-criminals on small businesses meant that security remained a concern for such organizations. In many such cases, detecting the attackers remained a challenge. A common tool to augment existing attack detection mechanisms within networks involves the use of honeypot systems. A fundamenta...
Requirement elicitation is one of the most important activities in requirement engineering and allocating limited amount of time in this activity is considered to significantly contribute towards failure of software projects. Having quality requirements is also greatly influenced by the techniques utilized during requirement elicitation process. Th...
Flowcharts have been used in problem diagnosis for a long time because of their effectiveness during process representation. However, with time, diagnostic flowcharts can become unmanageably complex and incomprehensible, thus leading to longer decision paths. A lengthy decision path also implies a time consuming diagnosis process while at the same...
Over the past few decades, human beings have increasingly adopted different types of personal computers including desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smart phones. More recently, there has been the emergence of the Raspberry Pi and since its release in 2012, this new type of computer has undergone rapid growth in adoption to even become the fas...
Secure communication is a key requirement for several small wireless devices in the form of smart-card readers and sensors (Wander, et al., 2005). Being small in size, such devices are often constrained by limited battery capacity and are thus adversely affected by resource intensive security mechanisms. One widely used cryptographic algorithm for...
During the past decade, one of the key concerns being faced around the world is climate change, primarily caused by global warming (IPCC, 2007; Smith, et al., 2009). This warming of the Earth has been attributed to the ‘enhanced greenhouse effect’, which is in turn caused by human induced release of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere (Pande...
One of the growing concerns 1 to the world today is climate change, which does not only affects the natural environment 2 in multiple ways but also adversely impacts human health 3. Climate change is primarily attributed to global warming, which is caused by emissions 4 of carbon in the atmosphere. A major source of these emissions which has also b...
The increasing dependence of human beings on technology has not only made ICT a growing power consumer, but also a rising contributor to the adverse effects of global climate change. In light of the growing power consumption by ICT, accurate measurement techniques are required since leaders cannot manage what cannot be measured. One of the emerging...
The global climate change effects being faced around the world plus the effects of global recession and rising energy costs is compelling organizations to save costs. One of the effective ways which is beneficial to both organizations and the natural environment is towards going green. In the process of going green, it is important to be able to ef...
Though the IT industry has been one of the fastest growing industries in many countries over the past years, its relationship with the natural environment has not been given much consideration. This growing industry has as main negative impact on the environment, climate change in the form of global warming, caused by the emissions of carbon in the...
Down the past years, the number of computer and Internet users has been constantly increasing in several countries and today, more and more youngsters are starting to use computers at an earlier age be it at home or in educational institutions. In many countries around the world, computer literacy among youngsters is being promoted since a very you...
Though the IT industry has been one of the fastest growing industries in many countries over the past years, its relationship with the natural environment has not been given much consideration. This growing industry has as main negative impact on the environment, climate change in the form of global warming, caused by the emissions of carbon in the...
The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is considered as one of the key factors of competitiveness as far as tourism markets and strategic tourism management are considered. Its widespread adoption is due to the various advantages being provided where ICT can help to reduce operational and communication costs. Computer technologies are i...
We present an intelligent online budget tracker (GeniusIOBT.com) to efficiently manage house- hold budget. Our system will help to plan and track household-budget related issues where mem- bers of the system can securely access it anytime from anywhere via the Internet. The Intelligent Online Budget Tracker not only keeps track of the budget but al...
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I am actually looking for environmental sustainability indicators used within IT firms. Any key resources are most welcome. Thanks.