Haryani Haron

MARA University of Technology | UiTM · Center for Information Technology Studies

This paper reports the development of a model system through which academicians can exchange and share research knowledge (RK) in higher learning institutions (HLI). The underlying research to support this development adopted a mixed-method design using an exploratory sequential approach. Data were collected from academic staff in a Malaysian publi...

Intrinsic values associated with ICT services activities in productive ageing. Given the advances made in ICT services that have been widely used, elderlies need to be equipped with the knowledge in using the services. The lack of ICT usage among elderlies is because of the low motivation to use the ICT applications. This in turn could be due to th...

This paper offers a new approach to ascertain the characteristics of the knowledge sharing network (KSN) existing among academicians and to develop a knowledge sharing system database (KSSDB) architecture to suit the discovered network. A case study qualitative method was adopted to gather meaningful insights into the academic institutions with whi...

a name="_Hlk14123028"> This paper presents the ontology model for Malay Confinement Dietary (MCD) recipes which include the intake suggestion and its preparation . MCD plays a big role to ensure that mothers in confinement get the right nutrient in order to restore back their health. In the current research on MCD, the covered part is only on what...

This study aims to determine the requirements for knowledge sharing systems (KSS) in academic institutions (AI). Using a mixed methods approach, the study proposes a knowledge sharing system requirement framework (KSSRF) which could be used as a guide for AIs to develop their KSS. The requirements framework was developed after studying the knowledg...

The development of ontologies needs to meet not only the functional requirements of the ontology, but also their non-functional requirements. For ontologies, the non-functional requirements are the general requirements that the ontology should fulfil; referring to the criteria, qualities and general aspects that the ontology should satisfy. They ne...

A majority of the elderly experience constraints in contributing their services to community towards extrinsic value due to their frailty. However, the elderly may be able to remain productive in terms of intrinsic value. ICT offers good opportunities to promote the elderly in social activities regardless to their weaknesses. The aim of this study...

This paper proposed the knowledge-creation process model within a group problem-solving process, and the discussion was driven by a research interest to improve the platform currently used in higher education, which fails to fully capture and represent knowledge creation within group problem-solving efforts in academic institutions. This research w...

Nowadays, information and communication technology (ICT) has become an important element in our life. Many organizations have started to appreciate the use of ICT in their organizations in making their business more competitive. Our research aims to propose an ICT-supported knowledge transfer frameworks for the family firms. The framework is meant...

Onboarding is the process of getting newly hired employee to adjust to the social and performance aspects of their new jobs quickly and smoothly. It is important to the organization to maximize the employee retention and productivity and increase their satisfaction and loyalty where it could reduce cost of hiring employee by reducing the turnover r...

Knowledge transfer is a crucial part of a family firm’s succession plan. Knowledge transfer in family firms involves transferring knowledge from a business owner to the younger generation. The process of transferring knowledge in family firms is very challenging because it involves the main source of knowledge who is business owners. The majority o...

In the rapid development of science and technology, indigenous knowledge needs to be preserved to avoid the extinction of knowledge. Indigenous knowledge can be defined as the knowledge that is being used by the local people in a certain community to live. The indigenous knowledge that is widely used in Malaysia is the Malay Confinement Dietary (MC...

In order to be effective, information systems that cater for the need of a particular domain ought to deploy suitable ontology of the industry. The ontology will be useful for their general operations, decision making and also to facilitate the financial engineering. The software engineering approach develop ontologies that are more reliable, long...

Cognitive decline which has been identifi ed as the third area of concern in an aging population affects older people's ability to think, concentrate, formulate ideas, reason and remember. The reminiscence therapy, a process of remembering, has been proven to be an effective method in enhancing the cognitive capacities of the elderly. Conventionall...

Community engagement is crucial in building positive relationships within the members of a community. Community engagement will takes place when the communities contribute something which is beneficial and visible to the communities. The possibilities of technology in community involvement have become a trend in the study of community engagement. T...

A vast number of problem solving frameworks have been established in the realms of management, business, mathematics, healthcare, aerospace, law and etcetera towards facilitating effective decision making in normative form in particular. It was learnt that those problem solving frameworks are originated mainly from practical exercises of practition...

This paper highlighted a study on the technique used in formulating a new complete model for preserving the entire electronic records (e-records) event history metadata. Based on the real case study at Malaysia’s Government Agencies (MGA) and also review on the literature, the unavailability of complete model in preserving the entire e-records meta...

Nowadays, food intake's advantages are veiy important to consumers. One of the advantages of consuming fruits and vegetable is that; it can offer great nutrient and non-nutrients compound such as phytochemicals, which are essential for life. Phytochemicals are non-nutritive plant chemicals derived from organic compounds found in vegetables, fruits...

In order to be effective, information systems that cater for the Islamic banks ought to be backed by a suitable ontology of the industry. The ontology will be useful for consumers' decision making and also to facilitate the financial engineering in the context of Islamic banking. However, the peculiarities of the Islamic banking businesses demand s...

The collective effort in a project environment requires an effective information distribution among the team members. Knowledge management system (KMS) supports a collaborative environment which is in resonance with the collective environment in project management. A KMS framework is proposed to address the information distribution issues of ineffi...

This qualitative study aims to explore and describe the most important functional requirements (FR) and non-functional requirements (NFR) of knowledge sharing system (KSS) used at a Malaysian public academic institution. The strategy used is a single case study which aims to gather deeper insights on the requirements of the KSS. Data were collected...

The reminiscence therapy, a process of remembering, have been proven to be an effective method in enhancing the cognitive capacities of the elderly. The use of new technology by the elderly population is being widely accepted for having a beneficial effect on their quality of life, also pave ways for the usage of technology to support the reminisce...

Community engagement is crucial in building positive relationships within the members of a community. Community gardening can be a means of community engagement through providing opportunities for social interaction and greater community cohesions. Community engagement will take place when the community gardeners contribute something which is benef...

In recent years, the world’s ageing phenomena has led to the increase number of retirements in organisations. This phenomenon inevitably has given a great impact to many organisations when number of productive labour force decreases. Productive labours take with them experience and knowledge; hence, organisations suffers loss of its knowledge and c...

This paper proposes a model for the preservation of electronic record (e-record) event history metadata (PEREHM) as one of the best practices in preserving electronic records in Malaysian Government Agencies. This study was conducted in response to the electronic government (e-government) initiatives which was launched 1997. The model was designed...

The purpose of this study is to describe the process of reminiscence therapy that has been conducted for elderly and the aim is to propose a suitable technology that can support the process. Qualitative approach is used in this study to allow a deeper understanding about the work process of reminiscence therapy. A case study at three case sites has...

Corporate memory is a valuable knowledge created by an organization. In research and development organization, product design knowledge made up valuable corporate memory. To ensure the reusability of the corporate memory, the knowledge must be made accessible. However, product development is a project based task and knowledge captured are often kep...

Institutions of Higher Learning as a mass provider of knowledge, have been looking at knowledge management concepts to manage their knowledge. One of the ways of applying knowledge management is by using the corporate memory approach. Corporate Memory acts as brain of organization that store and enable access of organization records and experiences...

The green technology's main objective is to protect the environment from the harmful effects that technology sometimes brings. Green technology has taken off in Malaysia, but not all information technology companies in the country see its long-term benefits. Most of the green computing initiatives have concentrated on innovating hardware and little...

Abstract—This paper highlighted the study on preserving the e-records event history metadata. This study is currently conducted in identified the actual model that should be used in preserving the e-records metadata in Malaysia Government Agencies. In preliminary stages, the interview session has been conducted with staffs from Malaysia Government...

This qualitative case study aims to describe and model the academicians Knowledge Sharing (KS) acknowledgement motivation (include monetary such as research grants, get promotion, gain award and non-monetary such as praise, image enhancement and letter of appreciation) in a largest Malaysian public university. A single case study was conducted with...

The aging process in human being will eventually develop some degree of decline in cognitive capacity and show a variety of symptoms associated with it such as forgetfulness. Forgetfulness might lead to frustration as it hinders elderly from carrying out their daily life activities. Living a healthy aging life, the spiritual aspect is considered es...

The Libyan oil and gas companies are in dispersed locations, which necessitate an efficient and effective management system to improve their competitiveness. They need to pool resources in the organization to create organizational intelligence as to be competitive. Organizational intelligence is organizational practices which are influenced IT capa...

There have been numerous complaints and grievances by the customers of the Islamic banks. The banks are being accused of charging high financing costs on their customers. Before remedial action could be undertaken, the root causes of the grievances need to be identified. As such, a comprehensive content analysis of literatures pertaining to the gri...

Many frameworks for problem-solving have been made available in mathematics, healthcare, aerospace, business, management and law. Regardless of the many problem solving frameworks established for specific use in various discipline of studies, they are aimed at facilitating effective decision making in normative form. In line with normative theory o...

The aging process in human being will eventually develop some degree of decline in cognitive capacity and show a variety of symptoms associated with it such as forgetfulness. Forgetfulness might lead to frustration as it hinders elderly from carrying out their daily life activities. Living a healthy aging life, the spiritual aspect is considered es...

In recent years, the world’s aging phenomena has lead to the increase number of retirements in organisations. This phenomenon inevitably has given a great impact to many organisations when number of productive labour force decreases. Productive labours take with them experience and knowledge, hence organisations suffers lost of its knowledge and co...

A vast number of problem-solving frameworks have been established in mathematics, healthcare, aerospace, business and law to name a few towards facilitating effective decision making in normative form. Nevertheless, the establishment of novel and alternative frameworks acts as continuous effort in the literature of problem-solving. While most of th...

This paper outlines the decision processes contained in, and traceable from abductive inference of Pragmaticism theory of inquiry of Charles Sanders Peirce (1939-1914). The abductive inference of Peircean Pragmaticism is the first of three main reasoning processes that aims at "attainment of belief" in its actual essence. In tracing and outlining t...

Science and technology are intimately linked to the studies and expansion in the general progression of the society. However, Indigenous Knowledge (IK) which holds the same weight-age as the development of the society with science seems to be forgotten and it leads to its extinction. IK is a tacit, scattered and unorganized knowledge that being use...

Transferring knowledge from the older generation to the younger generation is crucial for organisations' sustainability and competitiveness. This is due to the " aging population " phenomena that will eventually increase the number of retirements and subsequently cause loss of organisational knowledge. However, the knowledge transfer is a complicat...

Indigenous Knowledge (IK) has known to be long exist and used by the local people in certain environments in making their living. This knowledgeis vital and crucial for the sustainability and the existence of a society and therefore need to be preserved from extinction. Currently, most knowledge organization models are static and difficult to be ma...

By the year 2030, Malaysian population is expected to reach aged population with 3.4 million being senior citizens. The retirement of the aging people is a concern to most organisations as it also means lost of an organisation knowledge. Lack of appreciation of the value of tacit knowledge and lack of planning to capture retirees' knowledge before...

In the society, science and technology are intimately linked to the studies and expansion in the general progression of the society. However, the Indigenous Knowledge (IK) which holds the same weight-age as the development of the society with science seems to be forgotten. IK is a knowledge that being used by the people in certain environments in m...

Transferring knowledge from older people involves lots of challenges due to cognitive decline experience by themselves. For this purpose, we studied research done in social psychology area and explore their applicability in knowledge transfer practice. We consider social psychology to be a discipline from which theories, models, and research result...

This study aims to propose a knowledge sharing system model for Higher Learning Institutions based on academicians knowledge sharing behaviour. This research was carried out in four stages which are determined the knowledge acquisition, collected the data, data analyses and finding, and development of a knowledge sharing system model. The proposed...

. Intellectual Output (IO) of a university is often neglected by society whereas it actually possesses a great capacity of university’s knowledge produced by researchers. Knowledge preservation is important for community to be able to access, utilize and improve the knowledge at the same time. Thus, Institutional Repository (IR) of an institution i...

This qualitative study aims to explore and describe the types of knowledge shared among academicians in a Malaysian public academic institution. The strategy used is a single case study which aims to gather deeper insights on the types of knowledge. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. A total of 15 renowned academicians were int...

Strategic Information System Planning has been a very critical and important management issues for companies to gain competitive advantages. This research investigated the current situational analysis of Strategic Information System Planning in the context of a Malaysian SME. A single case study strategy is employed in this research to allow an in-...

Since the rapid emergence of foresight in the 90s, Malaysia has involved in such practices. However, little is known about Malaysia's foresight initiative. The foresight initiative conducted by Malaysia since its inception in 1997 until Malaysia's first technology foresight initiative at the national level in 2010 does not clearly show its position...

This study reports the adoption of blended learning among academicians in Malaysia. Many higher learning institutions in Malaysia have implemented blended learning because of its effectiveness as a learning approach. However, studies have shown that academicians are apprehensive about teaching in blended learning. The theoretical framework for this...

The values of Malaysia indigenous herbs are not limited to its medicinal benefits but also in local and traditional knowledge of each herb. However, this knowledge is scattered and unorganized in internet and merely own by local people that led to difficulty in designing knowledge based system. This paper proposed a Malaysia indigenous herbs knowle...

As knowledge management (KM) is considered a multifaceted discipline in Malaysia, KM is still evolving. In fact, the transformation in the Malaysian government's agenda on the Knowledgeeconomy has been reflected in the development of the Knowledge-based Economy Master Plan in the year 2001. From the social constructionist philosophical stance, this...

Fault injection testing (FIT) approach validates system's fault tolerance mechanism by actively injecting software faults into the targeted areas in the system in order to accelerate its failure rate. This highly complements other testing approaches such as requirements and regression testing implemented during the same testing phase. During testin...

This study reports on the determinants of Information Technology tender activity focusing on vendor selection process. The evaluation process in the selection of vendors is crucial because this is the phase where risks occur frequently. A survey is conducted among government agencies, government-linked companies and private sectors which are involv...

Technology is the key enabler of knowledge management implementation. Although the implementation of technology has always been associated with organizational change, there are lack of insights on how knowledge management technology (KMT) influences the organizational change in particularly the institutional properties and human agents. This paper...

Planning a usability testing for the children needs guidance and persistence. For this purpose, we identified an educational game for learning Arabic words to be tested for its usability and learnability aspects. We followed guidelines for usability testing with children by Hanna et. al. Thus, this paper focuses on issues that have been overlooked...

Knowledge in organization, supported by appropriate technology will produce organizational memories that provide necessary support for organization to learn and grow. As the scope of organizational memory in one organization is too broad, it is necessary to classify them into acceptable narrower view. Using organization memory computer base literat...

The oil and gas industry as a backbone to Libyan economy provides excellent focus for studying the influence of organizational intelligence (OI) especially this time when its economic sanctions has been lifted. OI stems from vast diversity and describes the strength and weaknesses on decision making. The importance of oil and gas sectors should ins...

The oil and gas industry as a backbone to Libyan economy provides excellent focus for studying the influence of organizational intelligence (OI) especially this time when its economic sanctions has been lifted. OI stems from vast diversity and describes the strength and weaknesses on decision making. The importance of oil and gas sectors should ins...

Many higher learning institutions in Malaysia have implemented e-learning because of its effectiveness as a learning approach. However, studies have shown that there are still low adoption rate among e-learners in Malaysia. This study explored factors which influence e-learners in adopting e-learning system in their learning process. The strategy o...

Email is one of the most important Internet applications for most computer users. The usage of email is increasing from time to time. However, together with this growth comes a variety of problems, such as increase of spam and the widely spread of computer worms via emails. The current scenario poses a challenge on ways to manage email efficiently,...

Usability testing has traditionally been conducted in dedicated laboratory. Alternatively, field study can be an option to conduct the usability testing. As HCI researchers who work with children, we have experiences in conducting usability tests in both natural and laboratory environments. We tested two different children applications in two diffe...

Social networking technology provides a social, collaborative and interactive platform for Internet users. The advances in social networking technology improve the socialization among Internet users. Users become more open in expressing their thoughts and sharing information, and along the way this contributes to the rise of internet violations. On...

This interpretive study explored tacit knowledge in Malaysian academia. Academicians are important assets in institutions of higher learning; therefore it is critical to understand tacit knowledge which resides in them. The lack of understanding of tacit knowledge impedes the efforts of managing it as a source of competitive advantage. The research...

This study reports the findings from an interpretive exploration of tacit knowledge construction and application among the Malaysian academicians. In the knowledge era, higher learning institutions are increasingly exposed to marketplace pressures similar to other business. Therefore, it is pertinent for higher learning institutions to leverage on...

This paper aims to shed some light on various complexities or complications that may exist in Information Technology (IT) projects. This paper reexamines crucial complexities that affects IT projects and the complications or difficulties that IT project manager faces are a result. Various researches have studied on the area of IT projects, focusing...

This study reports the interpretive exploration of Malaysian academicians’ adaptation strategies in the transformation of educational identity. In the effort to enable the nation to compete in the global arena during the knowledge-based era, the Malaysian government introduced the Knowledge-based Economy Strategic Plan. One of the thrust is to deve...

The phrase "tacit knowledge" has been widely used in the knowledge management and organization studies areas. There are many definitions and approaches that have been used in explaining and examining tacit knowledge. This paper intends to further elaborate the nature and attributes of tacit knowledge by comparing the works done by distinguish autho...