Mohamad Taha Ijab

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia | ukm · Institute of Visual Informatics

Palm oil mill industries are commonly found in Malaysia. This is due to Malaysia’s position as the second leading producer of palm oil worldwide. In 2021, Malaysia supplied a third of the world’s palm oil next only to Indonesia. Recently, there is a trend of increasing price of palm oil in the market, marking higher demand and higher profitability...

Advances in data collection and storage infrastructure present a once-in-a generation chance to integrate both data and emergency resources in each location into a dynamic learning system capable of anticipating and swiftly responding to situations involving different types of hazards. Currently, incident details are not always thoroughly documente...

Teknologi persuasif merupakan teknologi yang dapat mempengaruhi pengguna untuk mengubah sikap dan tingkah laku. Teknologi ini telah digunakan dengan meluas dalam pelbagai aplikasi seperti kesihatan, perniagaan dan pendidikan. Kepentingan teknologi persuasif dalam bidang pendidikan seperti dalam sistem e-pembelajaran serta MOOC juga semakin diperluk...

Decision making for graduate students is essential to ensure good progress in research because when the decision-making process is not made correctly, the student's cognitive burden will increase. This situation would then result in the deterioration of students' motivation and attitude towards learning and conducting research. A digital learning t...

The global fatality caused by the deadly COVID-19 already took 4.5 million lives and is still rapidly increasing. At the same time, Malaysian citizens have been inundated with the overabundance of news and information about COVID-19 since it hit the world in December 2019. Recent study by ISIS Malaysia discovered that WhatsApp and Facebook are the...

Many flood modelings use geovisualization techniques but are very complicated and can only be understood by researchers or practitioners. There is a need for modelings that are informative and can be understood by ordinary people for the purpose of disaster mitigation. This research analyzed a flood modeling geovisualization sample to find out the...

Social entrepreneurship (SE) had been introduced in the university as one of the efforts to nurture future social entrepreneurs. SE courses established at the university level with a combination of cooperation from the local community and industry give a more effective impact on the local community. The knowledge and skills taught from universities...

In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), many mobile heart disease applications are available on Apple App Store and Google Play and these applications enable heart patients to carry out self-monitoring of their heart conditions practically easily. However, when the user feels dissatisfied with the usability and affordances of the mobi...

In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), many mobile heart disease applications are available on Apple App Store and Google Play and these applications enable heart patients to carry out self-monitoring of their heart conditions practically easily. However, when the user feels dissatisfied with the usability and affordances of the mobi...

Policy study on open data readiness in the education sector in Malaysia.

In its effort to modernize its public service delivery, Malaysia is actively leveraging on big data analytics. To support this ambitious initiative, a new framework addressing the needs of Big Data Quality for Malaysia is imperative, as big data analytics requires high quality data in order for it to be useful. Unfortunately, a proper big data qual...

Heart disease is one of the most prominent silent killers in the world. Further, treating the heart disease problems is considerably costly. In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), many heart disease monitoring mobile applications are available on Google Play and Apple App Store. These applications enable the patients to carry out sel...

Nowadays designers are facing challenges in designing sustainable eco-friendly products. Sustainable eco-friendly product design requires designers to conduct rigorous product research and have a development process that incorporates existing eco-efficiency elements. Sustainable eco-friendly product requirements are becoming more critical and are c...

Universitas Bina Darma is a university that has a vision to become an international standard university driven by innovations in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The aim of this research is to support the vision of Universitas Bina Darma by creating an inventory information system for the university-wide implementation. The research...

Electronic learning or E-learning is currently flourishing immensely in areas such as secondary and tertiary education, lifelong learning programs and adult education. Within recent years, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have received profound attention within the field of E-learning. Persuasive principles can be implemented to enhance the syst...

Heart disease is one of the most prominent silent killers in the world. Treating the heart disease health problems is considerably costly. In the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), heart patients are now able to monitor their heart conditions using heart disease monitoring applications on any mobile devices. Usability factors such as ease...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the most prominent silent killers in the world. Further, treating the CVD health problems is considerably costly. In the era of digitization, CVD patients are able to monitor their heart conditions using CVD health monitoring applications on any mobile devices. In order for the applications to be usable, and a...

As the genome sequencing cost becomes more affordable, genomics studies are extensively carried out to empower the ultimate healthcare goal which is the precision medicine. By tailoring each individual medical treatment through precision medicine, it will potentially lead to nearly zero occurrence of the drugs side effects and treatment complicatio...

Introduction. In the past, libraries were major source of information, but with the passage of time the context of information-seeking behaviour has shifted from libraries to social media. In addition, the understanding of the information-seeking behaviour of international students using social media is limited. Therefore, the purpose of this resea...

Penelitian di bidang Interaksi Manusia dan Komputer khususnya aspek usability untuk aplikasi pemantauan kesehatan penyakit cardiovascular (CVD) pada negara berkembang telah menjadi fenomena yang belum diteliti sepenuhnya. Pada era digitalisasi, pasien penyakit jantung dapat menggunakan aplikasi pemantauan kesehatan CVD pada perangkat selulernya unt...

This paper is about the conceptual development of the Big Data Quality Framework for Malaysia’s Public Sector Open Data Initiative (My-PSODI). At the moment, there is a lack of Big Data Quality Framework in existence particularly that is focusing on the specific context and needs of Malaysia’s Public Sector Open Data initiative. Most of existing da...

Personalised medicine has been visualised as the ultimate healthcare practise, as the treatment will be customised to the patient’s need. This will eliminate the “one-for-all” approach, thus reducing the potential drug’s side effects, ineffective drug doses and severe complications due to unsuitable drugs prescribed. As the cost for genomics sequen...

Climate change is a pressing issue that has taken many countries to task in addressing this global concern. The public need an effective information channel in enhancing their awareness pertaining to the impacts of climate change. One of the most appropriate ways to convey such information is through the optimisation of 3D visualization media. This...

Statistically, there are 2.7 million Malaysian households categorized under the Bottom 40 (B40) category with 56% of them are living in urban areas and the remaining 44% live in rural areas. Malaysia’s Eleventh Malaysia Plan refers B40 as household with a mean monthly income of RM3,860. For the betterment of the B40 community in the country, the Go...

Purpose The explosion of social media use such as Facebook among higher education students is deemed to have great potential in widely disseminating environmental sustainability awareness. The paper aims to capture, summarise, synthesise and comment on the role of social media to garner interest of students and staff on environmental sustainabilit...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the information-seeking behaviour of international students in terms of their information needs and to highlight the role of social media. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, a systematic literature survey was conducted in order to investigate information-seeking trends among international...

This paper discusses the emergence and the recurrent use of Green IS practice in organisations. The theoretical construct of "field" adopted from Bourdieu's theory of practice is used in explaining the Green IS practice phenomenon in a case organisation called Acadia. In particular, the study investigates the relationships between local actions inc...

This paper is concerned with understanding how Green Information Systems ("Green IS") are initiated and used in organisations. We argue that Green IS can be studied from a practice perspective and draw from Bourdieu's Theory of Practice. Data is collected from a case study of an Asian telecommunications organisation focusing on two Green IS practic...

In the research on the intersection of information systems (IS) and eco-sustainability, various terms such as Green IT, Green ICT, Green IT/IS, Green IS and Sustainable IS are used. These conundrums of terms can lead to ambiguity and confusion in the theory and practice of Green IS. What constitutes the "Greenness" in a Green IS and its loci are la...

This research paper is a pilot study that investigated the suitability of adopting an automated balanced scorecard for managing and measuring the performance excellence of academic staffs in the higher education setting. A comprehensive study of related literature with requirements elicited from the target population in a selected premier universit...

In the rapid development of global market, there is an urgent need for organization to provide training to its employees to ensure their continuous competence in handling their task. The challenge from this scenario is to find a way to enforce employees to enhance their knowledge and skills from time to time by developing an e-training system. Appl...