Nor Zairah Ab. Rahim

University of Technology Malaysia | UTM · Advanced Informatics School (AIS)

One of the difficulties in the teaching and learning of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the lack of exposure to IoT concepts and inadequate teaching methods and tools. The use of Design Thinking (DT) when developing IoT projects can promote solution-based thinking and enhance creativity in problem-solving. The process of DT involves five phases: Em...

Teaching and learning Internet of Things (IoT) programming is challenging. The literature regarding teaching and learning for IoT programming still lacking. Therefore, we conducted an updated and comprehensive review using a systematic literature review (SLR) to report recent research findings regarding teaching and learning for IoT programming. Fi...

Open Government Data (OGD) adoption has been extensively studied; however, few have examined the success factors of OGD adoption in the public sector context. The benefits of leveraging data in enhancing public service delivery have been a significant concern to the top management of the public sector in providing them insight for strategic plannin...

The significance of open data has benefited the public sector to leverage data in enhancing public service delivery, transparency, and accountability of organizational performance. Open data concept has also encouraged the public sector to release their data to the public without technical restriction and limitation. Nevertheless, there are lacks e...

Social networking sites (SNS) usage have impacted our lives in many ways. Researches on SNS usage mostly were focus on adults compared to teenagers. Nowadays, teenagers are so mesmerize with the SNS applications offered by the provider until they get addicted to it. Yet, SNS addiction is not an isolation process. It started off with high engagement...

Obesity is a significant problem in Southeast Asia, especially in Malaysia, where the report by The National Health and Morbidity Survey of 2015 emphasized that the country has the highest proportion of obese and overweight population in the region and it is increasing by the year. Recently, it was observed that the social media could be leveraged...

Malaysian Public Service (MSP) is moving towards efficient citizen-centric and focus on enhancing productivity through a whole-of-government approach supported by a lean and agile organization, competent talent, effective delivery of projects, and efficient services of the local authority. In addition to that, to determine the right direction espec...

In the Malaysian public sector, a group of Information Technology (IT) experts and decision makers is the mastermind of the future in Information Technology (IT). Therefore, common understanding between the IT experts and the decision makers is imperative for a collaborative and comprehensive decision making. However, there are few studies that gau...

Planning for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) future in the context of Malaysian public service is in the hand of group of IT experts and decision makers. Both parties are responsible for making decisions and plan the future ICT direction of the organization. Therefore it is important to comprise common understanding between Informati...

The growth of social media usage questions the old-style idea of customer relationship management (CRM). Social CRM strategy is a novel version of CRM empowered by social media technology that offers a new way of managing relationships with customers effectively. This study aims to forecast the predictors of social CRM strategy adoption by small an...

In a constantly changing and evolving global and organizational environment, it is necessary to improve the skills of human resources. The innovation of information technologies nowadays has contributed to the exponential expansion in online training in Malaysia. The number employees attending online training courses have increased tremendously but...

In the recent years, open innovation and co-creation concepts engaging customers in organizations have been gaining widespread attention around the globe. This is particularly significant in the telecommunication space, given the abundant benefits from economy of scale, ease of access to resources, shorter innovation cycles, supportive customer ser...

Many previous researchers have highlighted the positive and negative impacts of SNS usage in family environment such as improving family communications and bonding or worsen the family relationships. These impacts would varies depending on the family relationships. However, studies on SNS adoption, adaptation and use according to different types of...

In the realm of technology development, open innovation paradigm and social media have both acquired massive attention in extensive researches since past several years. Social media, as the key medium has abundant to offer to support open innovation, thus successful innovation is the key to business rapid growth. This research provides a systematic...

In a constantly changing and evolving global and organizational environment, it is considered necessary to improve the skills of human resources. With a view to understand online training effectiveness among employees, a proposed model is extended from the existing related models based on the conceptual studies. The innovation of information techno...

Social Network Sites (SNS) offer several benefits for all groups of people, particularly students. Based on previous studies, it is considered that studies on the usage of SNS among students in Malaysia are still limited. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the Positive Effects (Advantages) and Negative Effects (Disadvantage...

Extensive researches have been conducted in the area of social media, due to its high importance in the modern and knowledge society. Scholars have heralded the limitless and powerful communication opportunities social media is capable of offering organizations. This research identifies the antecedents of social media appropriation in informatics r...

The rise of social networking sites (SNSs) is currently overwhelming. Individuals are now able to interact, connect, and share information, photos, and other media in various SNSs. Facebook is one of the largest and most populated SNS in the world that is accessible by anyone including university students. Hence, it is interesting to understand the...

This study investigates the relationship between KM enablers and the KM performance in the Malaysian public sector. Five main independent variables of KM enablers; organizational culture, organizational structure, technology, people and political influence were tested against KM performance using structural equation modeling (SEM). Five hypotheses...

Communication technologies such as Social Network Sites (SNSs) are increasingly being used within family settings to support and extend the family relationships. Although many previous researchers have highlighted the impact of SNSs in family environment, criteria of SNS adoption and use in family context have received little research attention. Th...

Educational and training institutions must restructure themselves to better prepare the arriving new workforce. Nowadays, hiring the right IT candidate and assign them to the proper position is becoming more of a challenge to companies & business owners. One effective tool for restructuring the hiring process is standardizing IT skills set. This pa...

Nowadays the use of Tablet Personal Computer (TPC) as a medium of imparting education is gaining popularity among students and teachers. However, limited studies on school children have been conducted on their acceptance of Tablet PCs. Therefore, technology acceptance of TPC by 8 th grade school children in Malaysia was studied in this research. Th...

Implementation of a new technology such as e-Book in primary schools in one of the state in Malaysia gives new experience and challenges in Malaysian education field. The study aims to determine the students' skills of using e-books, to identify their levels of understanding of e-book use and their purpose of using e-Books. The data was gathered us...

This paper started with the review of the history of technology acceptance model from TRA to UTAUT. The expected contribution is to bring to lime light the current development stage of the technology acceptance model. Based on this, the paper examined the impact of UTAUT model on ICT acceptance and usage in HEIs. The UTAUT model theory was verified...

This research examines the conceptualisations of system use and its impact on continuance intention to use Facebook. We investigate the relationship between the user, system and task aspect of system use, in the light of numerous calls to explore this construct. A cross–sectional survey of Facebook users was undertaken. This research shows that the...

Social Network Site (SNS) are increasingly being used within family settings to support and extend the family relationships. From hundreds of SNS, Facebook is one of the most popular across a variety of demographic categories in Malaysia. Many extant researches on SNS adoption and use have focused on individual level and disregarding the family per...

The process of modernization, development and migration have much impacted the family size, functions and structure which consequently changing the ways of family communication. Therefore, communication technologies such as Social Network Sites (SNSs) are increasingly being used within family settings to support and extend the family relationships....

The use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in healthcare domains contributes to an increased complexity of the problems related to the security of Health Information Systems (HIS). This is primarily may be due to the introduction of human behaviors. In spite of many attempts in providing security for HIS, security incidents remain t...

This study examines the acceptance and use of ICT by Nigerian university academicians. The model validated is the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). Using a pilot study, one hundred questionnaires were administered and collected at the University of Jos Plateau State, Nigeria. The construct was significantly correlated with...

In the light of a diverse body of disorganized usage measures available and the difficulty of building a cumulative research tradition, a literature review is conducted on system use in Information Systems (IS) Acceptance through the two main theories of Technology Adoption, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and The Unified Theory of Use and A...

Security in Health Information Systems (HIS) is a central concern of researchers, academicians, and practitioners. Increased numbers of data security breaches have caused concern over the humans' role as the different users in security of HIS. Since many human errors or failures in all information systems (IS) can be prevented with education and tr...

Since the rise of the Social network sites (SNSs), the people's private personal details have hugely and publicly disclosed. People are sharing, chatting, commenting, tagging and self-disclosing large amount of private information. There are many SNSs and among the popular ones are MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, Cyworld, Bebo and Youtube....

This study examines the acceptance and use of ICT by Nigerian university academicians. The model validated is the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). Using a pilot study, one hundred questionnaires were administered and collected at the University of Jos Plateau State, Nigeria. The construct was significantly correlated with...

In the light of a diverse body of disorganized usage measures available and the difficulty of building a cumulative research tradition, a literature review is conducted on system use in Information Systems IS Acceptance through the two main theories of Technology Adoption, the Technology Acceptance Model TAM, and The Unified Theory of Use and Accep...

Understanding why people accept or reject new information or communication technology has been one of the most challenging issues in the study of ICT acceptance model. There are numerous conditions to be met before ICT innovations can be introduced, adopted and diffused through higher education institutions. The study considered the models TAM and...

Adoption of new technology such as Open Source Software (OSS) is one of the important issues in organizations. Despite being considered as cost effective by many organizations, OSS implementation still encounters many challenges. This paper describes a case study conducted at one of Malaysia's public universities which initially adopted Open Source...

This study investigates the adoption and appropriation of mobile phone technologies by building on the technology adoption and appropriation theories on different age group and gender in the Malaysian society. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, a nationwide survey using computer assisted telephone interviews (CATI) was conducted on 17...

Adoption of new technology such as Open Source Software (OSS) is an important issue in organizations. Despite many claimed benefits, implementing OSS can be challenging. This paper describes a case study of a City Council in Malaysia that was migrating to Open Source based applications. It presents an integrated framework that allows the researcher...