Rose Alinda Alias

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Head of Research Group at University of Technology Malaysia

Online Impulse Buying Behavior (IBB) significantly increases and contributes to the total S-commerce revenue. Hence, understanding such behavior is critical for an online business to strengthen competitiveness, enhance revenue, and ensure business sustainability. The majority of the prior research used urge-to-buy (UBI) to examine online IBB instea...

Organizations are adopting security policies to protect critical information, despite the fact that IT users frequently violate these standards. Numerous factors affecting user compliance have been identified in previous research, but few research findings have addressed human and organizational factors. The purpose of this study is to ascertain th...

Purpose Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the latest digital transformation (DT) technological trends the university library can use to provide library users with alternative educational services. AI can foster intelligent decisions for retrieving and sharing information for learning and research. However, extant literature confirms a low adop...

Expert finding systems try to alleviate the information overload problem and recommend experts who can satisfy users’ needs. They support researchers to find research collaborators automatically. The main challenge of current expert finding systems is that they retrieve experts based on the content of their documents but ignore the human interactio...

Information security policy compliance is one concern of organisations to improve information security, including universities. Previous research has shown that factors that influence user compliance can come from user behaviour and from within the organisation. This study aims to explore the factors of organisation and user habits that affect user...

span>Instruments used to measure compliance with information security policies have been developed by many researchers before, but only a few have conducted validity tests per item, especially for variables selected based on qualitative research. This study aims to validate the questionnaire will be used to measure user compliance with policies of...

This paper presents and discusses a comparative study of three major clustering categories namely Hierarchical-based, Iterative mode-based and Partition-based in analyzing and prioritizing Mobile Augmented reality (MAR) Learning (MAR-learning) usability data. This paper first discusses the related works in usability and clustering before moving on...

In the past few years, online impulse purchase has garnered attention from researchers in various fields, especially noted in the relatively new field of social commerce (S-commerce). This interactive envronment is a full of impulse buying stimulators. However, no previous studies have been conducted to evaluate the status of the research about onl...

The university is an organization that manages much public information, and therefore, information security policies are developed to ensure data security. However, during implementation still founded disobey behavior user and has an impact on data security. The previous research has been conducted to find influencing factor user comply with inform...

Augmented Reality (AR) concept is presently discussed as one of the foremost technologies of the next industrial revolution. AR has turned out to be a prevalent topic in educational research over the years as existing literature reflects the multiple benefits of its incorporation into educational setting however, the potential of achieving the Educ...

Expert finding systems assist researchers to automatically find a particular research collaborator. The problem of these systems is that they identify experts based on their documents content (system–centered perspective) and neglect the human interaction perspective. Human interaction perspective includes the factors that affect collaborator selec...

This study proposes a model to understand how the different processes of social influence, individual needs, and social gratifications influence the online impulse buying behavior. It also examines the moderating role of impulsiveness on the relationship between the different processes of social influence and urge to buy impulsively. This study use...

The data overload problem and the specific nature of the experts’ knowledge can hinder many users from finding experts with the expertise they required. There are several expert finding systems, which aim to solve the data overload problem and often recommend experts who can fulfil the users’ information needs. This study conducted a Systematic Lit...

The implementation of usability in mobile augmented reality (MAR) learning applications has been utilized in a myriad of standards, methodologies, and techniques. The usage and combination of techniques within research approaches are important in determining the quality of usability data collection. The purpose of this study is to identify, study,...

The growth of research in information technology security has enlarged in recent years. Investigations in Information security besides discussing technical problems but also consider policies, behavior and user compliance issues. Therefore, a systematic review is needed to inform the development of research in compliance with information security p...

The increasing women participation in the upper management level has been a comprehensive research study for women and career studies. Although only a few of them have had successfully broken the glass ceiling, they still have to struggle to keep up with the opposite gender. The purpose of the research study is to review past research studies on th...

Pada masa kini, masih kurang Metodologi Perancangan Strategik ICT (PSICT) yang menumpu kepada merangsang inovasi dalam organisasi. Ini menghalang organisasi dari memaksimakan kesan inovasi untuk kecemerlangan organisasi. Sehubungan itu, penyelidikan ini bertujuan membangunkan Metodologi PSICT yang membantu organisasi menjana lebih banyak strategi i...

Pada masa kini, masih kurang Metodologi Perancangan Strategik ICT (PSICT) yang menumpu kepada merangsang inovasi dalam organisasi. Ini menghalang organisasi dari memaksimakan kesan inovasi untuk kecemerlangan organisasi. Sehubungan itu, penyelidikan ini bertujuan membangunkan Metodologi PSICT yang membantu organisasi menjana lebih banyak strategi i...

The Malaysian English Language Teaching (ELT) of English as a Second Language (ESL) has been a long debated topic from implementation of methodologies, strategies and models to the tools used to deliver English education to Malaysian learners. This paper highlights the two emerging tools namely Mobile Learning (M-learning) and Mobile Augmented Real...

The tsunami of data and information brings with it challenges in decision making to organisations especially so to the government sector. Decision making is vital in ensuring effective service delivery to constituents. Nowadays, Big Data Analytics (BDA) tools and software are readily available but what is lacking are the skills and competency of th...

The world of research require researcher, academia and lecturers to share knowledge among them. With the invention of social media, knowledge sharing process has been more effective and easy. Previously, there were numerous researches done to investigate the effect of social media utilization for public used. There were also study that aimed to stu...

Various new performance evaluation indices for impact have been proposed and studied in various contexts. This study carried out a quantitative evaluation of the case of Malaysian engineering researchers at the micro level using a scientometric approach. In order to understand the behavior of new developments, a comparative performance evaluation i...

Transition of technology has led to the transformation from human physical strength to the cognitive thinking capability. In fact drastic changes in the technology have changed the research analysis from technical orientation to cognitive analysis. To date, the goal of this study is to design a User Interface (UI) which provides information for the...

Higher Education Institution (HEI) have embarked on the new style of decision-making with the aim to enhance the speed and reliability of decision-making capabilities. One of the hardest challenges in implementing Business Intelligence (BI) is the organization’s readiness towards adopting and implementing BI systems. Currently, few published studie...

This paper means to contemplate online social media usage on knowledge sharing among academia. In the past, numerous researches have been done to investigate how people in general make utilization of this innovation. However there are still restricted studies on how this technological advancement affects the scholarly world. Moreover, in Malaysia m...

Recent developments in Knowledge Sharing (KS) have heightened the need for security. However, there has been little discussion about ‘how to’ integrate security into KS models effectively. This research addresses this gap by proposing a KS Risk Governance (KSRG) framework and research model based on the framework to integrate security into KS throu...

The literature considers a journal’s h-index as a compared measure, however the relation between institutional level h-index (IHI) and journal related indices (JRI) has not been explored in previous studies at meso-level research assessment. This study applies the scientometric approach to meso-level data to examine the association, functional rela...

The exponential growth of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has initiated multiplier discussions on viable business models for higher education due to the disruptive innovation in the democratization of learning, encompassing heterogeneous participation worldwide. Nonetheless, based from past studies, business models for MOOCs sustainability are...

Stakeholders are progressively measuring the success of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in terms of graduation rates. Today, HEIs are under intense pressure to not only recruit students who have the potential to graduate on time, but also to detect and provide at-risk students with necessary remedial measures. However, most top management has...

This paper aims to study the influence of social media on knowledge sharing among academia. Previously, many researches have been done to explore the importance emergence of social media for public use, but there are still limited studies on how this technological advancement affects the academia. For this study, Facebook is chosen as one of the on...

Quantity and quality of research publication productivity are the main areas of concern for the scientific community. The way of accountability of research performance evaluation has been changing with the advent of new metrics. The research performance evaluation clearly emphasizes on peer review approach. This approach possesses a central positio...

Many studies have been performed to measure successful knowledge sharing in general. However, limited study has been done to assess successful knowledge sharing through social media. Hence, in this paper intend to discuss our approach to assess knowledge sharing among personal social media user. In order to achieve our objective, we proposed to int...

The introduction of ePortfolio by most universities circa 2006 was to respond to stakeholders claims and demands that graduates were lacking in generic skills. Hence the main objective of the usage of eP among undergraduates was to document their acquirement of generic skills. One such project in Malaysia however did not achieve much success. The a...

This paper discusses knowledge sharing behavior through social media analysis. The aim of this paper is to study the pattern of topics tends to be shared in the social media based on the level of postings (high, low). Facebook page is selected as the medium for social media. Fuzzy logic approach will be applied in determining the level of postings...

Generally, it is well acknowledged in most articles that SMEs have contributed in various ways in the area of economic and social enhancement, particularly in developing countries, such as Malaysia. Since most SME owner-managers in these developing countries still lack the necessary education and experience, various agencies, such as the government...

Today, business intelligence system (BIS) is universally considered as an essential tool to aid business decision making process. There is consensus that BIS has significant effects on predicting current and prospective views of business operations. These effects will only be realized if, and when, BIS are widely spread and used. An imperative stud...

The emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has revolutionized the global higher education due to policy innovation towards learning accessibility, heterogenous participation with low or zero cost imposed on end-users. In the context of Malaysian higher education, the Ministry of Higher Education has launched Malaysia MOOC, the first count...

Today, the education sector has become fiercely competitive in recruiting students from across the country and around the world. Anecdotal evidence suggests that universities are good candidates for Business intelligence (BI). BI is the process of gathering correct information in the correct format at the correct time; and delivering the results fo...

The emergence of Massive Open Online Courseware (MOOC) has garnered widespread attention for revolutionizing open access learning and it is considered as the main driver of education innovation. The literature on MOOC is steadily growing. However, there is not much effort being conducted to systematically curate, review and analyse the emergent tre...

In the past decade, the rising usage of social media tool called Facebook has been quite famous in academic field. Social Media focusing on Facebook become a perfect channel for higher education academicians to share their knowledge. Therefore, this paper aims is to explore the knowledge-sharing behaviour among women academia in a Malaysian univers...

In the past decade, the rising usage of social media tool called Facebook has been quite famous in academic field. Social Media focusing on Facebook become a perfect channel for higher education academicians to share their knowledge. Therefore, this paper aims is to explore the knowledge-sharing behaviour among women academia in a Malaysian univers...

This paper illustrates the value of using activity theory with action research to examine the development of an e-portfolio system used in an engineering-based Malaysian university. Engeström's third generation activity theory, situated within socio-cultural theory, can be used to analyse the development of the e-portfolio system. The theory provid...

Traditionally, electronic portfolio tools focused mainly on the presentation of information, with an archive of digital data that are derived from the associated purpose of the presentation. Today, new electronic portfolio tools include digital environments for assembling and managing documents and all forms of media in a digital archive, and/or so...

Quantity and quality dimensions of research performance using various indicators are measuring by applying different research performance evaluation approaches. Metrics/indices play an essential role for peer based, metrics based or hybrid approaches. The potential use of new research performance indices like h and h-type indices is the hottest top...

Innovation has long been recognized as an important driver and cultivator for organization growth and production of quality new product and services. There are several innovation measurement models or frameworks that can be used to assess innovation. Innovation value chain is one of the assessment tools that can be used to assess innovation process...

The issue of security has been a controversial and much disputed subject within the field of Knowledge Sharing (KS). We have previously drawn attention to the paradox in KS security and Information Systems (IS) security. Far too little attention has been paid to integrate security into KS. Thus, this study proposes a conceptual framework of Knowled...

The issue of security has been a controversial and much disputed subject within the field of Knowledge Sharing (KS). We have previously drawn attention to the paradox in KS security and Information Systems (IS) security. Far too little attention has been paid to integrate security into KS. Thus, this study proposes a conceptual framework of Knowled...

Lack of human cognitive criteria embedded in system interface design may contribute to the failure of human performance in using system technology. Further, misinterpretation of the availability of resources from the system may also cause accidents to occur at the workplace. Thus, in order to support human cognition, this paper describes cognitive...

Lack of human cognitive criteria incorporated in Interface System Design (ISD) may affect user's performance in system control. Perhaps, user's level of awareness is needed in dealing with constant system control in the production industries. By analyzing design principles, cognitive theories, models and understand user's cognitive limitations, hel...

Innovation is an important aspect for organization to succeed in the competitive environment. Although innovation in organization can be seen through many perspectives, innovation value chain is helpful to view innovation. As sometimes organization could not find what are the reason and weaknesses that affect unsuccessful innovation implementation,...

In this study, we proposed a research model to investigate the factors influencing individuals' usage of telehealth, in particular, MyHealth portal, a subcomponent of telehealth in Malaysia. MyHealth portal's intention is to provide health and medical information for Malaysians through the internet, and be a source for local information with variet...

Among the important entrepreneurial skills that have been widely discussed in the literature are cost management skills. According to the literature, the owners of SMEs in Malaysia still lack cost management skills, which has hindered them in competing globally. As a developing country, the Government of Malaysia plays a vital role in providing tra...

ICT Strategic Planning (ICTSP) is important to an ICT manager because their wisdom in managing ICTSP implementation is being use as one of their performance indicators. Although there are many benefits for implementing ICTSP, ICT managers are still facing problems in coping with the development of ICTSP in their organization. Research Institute has...

There is a world trend for Research Performance Evaluation (RPE), developing of new scientometric indices and examining of their application. Consequently, concerns and anomalies arise about the convergent validity and reliability of these indices for the decision making purposes. This is especially prevalent in the region/countries/disciplines hav...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) play important roles within the rapid growth of innovation environment. The roles include as a change agent, enhancing e-business requirements, promoting globalization and innovation, contributing to productivity growth, strengthening competitiveness, improving business processes along the whole value...

In the era of globalisation or internationalisation, as a developing country, it is crucial for the Malaysian Government to propose an SME development plan to assist the SMEs to meet the new business challenges in the competitive global business environment. This is because SMEs in Malaysia need to prepare themselves in various aspects, especially...

This paper demonstrates how Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) can be used to consider a broad range of issues relevant to implement KMS initiatives including the technical, social and organizational context. The focus of applying the SSM is to develop a conceptual model that provides the basis of identifying the process involved and exploring the fact...

The last few years have seen an enormous growth of interest in e-portfolios and the benefits they can bring to learners. While it is generally agreed that e-portfolios have great potential to engage students and promote deep learning, the research that has been conducted to date focuses very little on student perceptions of value of the e-portfolio...

This paper proposes a conceptual framework for assessing the high quality of Knowledge Sharing (KS) according to the dimensions of KS quality. Despite the variety of the specified perspectives of KS models, the issue of KS quality has been less attention rather than others. Hence this lack of investigation shows that KS researchers only focus on th...

Consent type is divided into four types, namely general consent, general consent with specific denial, general denial with specific consent and general denial. However, in the new information age, general consent is no longer appropriate because it allows anyone to access information. Thus, new types of general consent need to be identified. This i...

Poor perception from human interpretation on system interface design may deviate human critical judgment about state of a system. As a result accidents may occur due to misinterpretation on displayed information available on the screen. In relation to that, this paper describes designing scenarios for system interface design which reflects with use...

ICT Strategic Planning(ICTSP) is one of the most important issues for an ICT manager for its wisdom in managing the development process and implementation of ICTSP will be one of the performance indicators of an ICT Manager success. Even though there are many benefits have been established worldwide but ICT managers still having problems coping wit...

This study presents the panoramic view of the described issues related to coverage, services and bibliometrics for Research Evaluation (RE) purposes by three reference enhanced databases. The researchers' viewpoint is based on the relevant literature and data accessed from most preferred citation sources: Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar....

Many organisations fail to implement their strategies due to the inability of stakeholders in addressing the problems associated with strategy implementation. This paper aims to support their ability and involvement in solving these problems as well as measure the success of strategy implementation through the development of a knowledge management...

Authors Siti Nisrin Mohd Anis Aryati Bakri, Naomie Salim, Rose Alinda Alias Publication date 2012/1/25 Conference Brunei International Conference on Engineering & Technology, 2012

The implementation of knowledge management systems (KMS) initiatives is recognized by its highly complex situations and difficult to manage, involving a range of interrelated and overlapping components of technology, organization and people. The objective of the study is to demonstrate how the Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) approach can be applied...

Dilemma in understanding how user react towards systems and how systems can be more usable for user is a great concern among researchers in computer science. Thus, this study is aiming to come out with a cognitive design checklist by analyzing existing design principles, human cognitive models and situation awareness model. Secondly is to discover...

This paper presents an analysis on Situational Awareness needs that will help to improve the interaction design between user(s) and system(s). Interaction design very much interested on how to design a product or a system used in working environment concerning how user interact and communicate with each other. Due to the limited study on Situationa...

Scholarly communication is the essence of all scientific work (Gravey, 1979). With the emergence of digital information resources and internet, the modes of accessing, searching, retrieving and consuming scholarly information have been rapidly changed. This scenario is “effectively transforming science into e-science” (Robert, 2009). The major deve...

The low uptake by undergraduate students on a recently introduced student electronic portfolio system has sparked a concern among the promoters of the system to re-look at the implementation strategies. A study was conducted to investigate the reason for the low acceptance and subsequently to suggest a post-implementation strategy to overcome this...

Services innovations are intensively associated with ICT innovations and adoption and diffusion of ICT. Recently, various issues and views of services have been addressed through new disciplines of services. This paper attempts to review multiple disciplines of IT services in Information Systems and Computer Science briefly. While in SSME and ITSM,...

This paper presents an analysis on a literature review findings in Interaction Design Issues Journals from the year 2006 to 2010. Due to the limited literature review reported on Interaction Design Issues, this study is aiming to provide some input on the current topics, methods and theories, interaction design elements and future trends of researc...

ITIL V3 could be introduced as a governance framework for IT service management (ITSM) and attempts to align IT investments with business objectives. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is also referred as a general framework for designing business and IT/IS architectures of organizations and it also attempts to align these architectures with business str...

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...

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...

Research on the Knowledge Management System (KMS) initiatives has become an emerging issue across the globe. However, there is a paucity of studies concerning KMS initiatives in the context of higher education although knowledge management practice is a norm in the academic communities. Aims: This study aims to fill this gap and provides a broad em...

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 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...

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 strategy formulation in organizations will be useless unless it is well implemented. Measuring and monitoring the performance of strategy implementation are one way solution to identify the success achievement of organizational objectives. To measure and monitor the implementation process based on document analysis and annual report are not eno...

Many organizations success in the strategic planning, but they commonly fail in execution. The knowledge complexity and environment uncertainty in decision making evoke that strategy is not easy to be executed. It will influence the achievement of organization objectives and organization performance onward. This research is to solve those problems...

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...

This paper proposed a study on developing a performance measurement model for information and communication technology service quality (ICTSQ). Based on most previous literature within ICT studies, many models have been developed in the concern of service quality (SQ). However, most of these models have not investigated the performance measurement...

The process of knowledge sharing is not just for transmitting or transferring the knowledge but more on the value and the impact of the knowledge itself. Effective knowledge sharing can be achieved through a process of socialization within supportive organizational culture. However, people's non-supportive beliefs in sharing knowledge either formal...

A knowledge management system (KMS) is a concept that can be used for creating knowledge repositories, improving knowledge access, sharing and communicating through collaboration, enhancing the knowledge environment and managing knowledge as an asset for an organization as well as inter-organization especially in learning organization (LO). In this...

A knowledge management system (KMS) is a concept that can be used for creating knowledge repositories, improving knowledge access and sharing as well as communicating through collaboration, enhancing the knowledge environment and managing knowledge as an asset for an institution or organisation. In this paper, we propose a collaborative KMS framewo...

This paper describes a Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) methodology designed to be appropriate for the organizational requirements of Malaysian Public Institutes of Higher Learning (PIHLs or IPTA in Malay Language). A Ministry of Higher Education was created in June 2004 to enable greater control and coordination over the activities of...

“Knowledge management (KM) system” is a phrase that is used to describe the creation of knowledge repositories, improvement of knowledge access and sharing as well as communication through collaboration, enhancing the knowledge environment and managing knowledge as an asset for an organization. In this paper, we analyze the KM concept, system and a...