Supunmali Ahangama

• Senior Lecturer at University of Moratuwa

The deployment of Health Information Systems (HIS) in Sri Lanka has been low in adoption compared to developed countries. There has been a dearth of studies to identify the factors that improve the adoption of HIS in developing countries. Thus, this study investigates the factors influencing the acceptance of HIS among public healthcare staff. A su...

Digital learning spaces have become a new norm of teaching and learning. Digitalization revolutionizes the educational system with the support of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). The success of virtual learning depends on the learners' self-regulation. Learning style is a signature for individuals and varies among individuals. When learners are...

The global doctor-patient ratio is 17 per 1000 population, however, it is 1.23 per 1000 population in Sri Lanka [1]. As it is far behind the expected numbers, the Sri Lankan public health sector is facing challenges in providing efficient services to citizens free of charge, including surgeries and cancer treatments. Looking at Nordic countries ado...

Technology enhancements introduce novel learning modes by replacing traditional face-to-face learning. Blended learning (BL) has emerged as the new normal, combining face-to-face instructions and online elements. Successful BL requires a high self-regulation capability among the learners. Technology can enhance these Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) c...

Within a year of its launch, the University of Moratuwa's open learning platform (open.uom.lk) has over 180,000 registered participants, providing free and open access to a series of asynchronous online courses in software development. Nearly 17,000 people have completed the two foundation courses: Python for Beginners and Web Development for Begin...

Many governments have failed to achieve the expected benefits of most e-participation projects, even though numerous ICT implementations have been implemented. Many such participatory projects initiated, funded, and deployed by the governments of developing countries and some projects of developed countries have not been able to maintain the positi...

The internet and social media have facilitated diverse communication genres, enabling widespread and rapid opinions-sharing. However, hate speech imposes a contemporary challenge on individuals and communities, given the user anonymity, freedom, and inadequate regulation. Therefore, it is imperative to identify the perpetrators responsible for spre...

Twitter has grown in popularity as a microblogging social media platform for people of all ages and locations to exchange and discuss important events, information, and news. Some Twitter users exhibit unique behaviors, and they use such platforms maliciously to spread hate content over social media platforms. These materials may be harmful to the...

Virtual Social Networks (VSN) act as a catalyst for the success of the active participation of citizens in information sharing, collaboration, and decision making. VSN based e-participation tools allow many-to-many communication and collaboration near real-time with users who might be in geographically dispersed locations. It provides a platform to...

One of the most widespread types of digital technology is the Internet which more than 5 billion people or 63.1% of the world’s population use as of April 2022. Previous studies have established that the relationship between digital technologies, such as the Internet, and labour market participation is worth investigating. While it is widely accept...

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have recently gained significant sway as a fundraising method, despite receiving little attention from researchers. Due to the relatively low level of regulation around ICOs, prospective investors and business owners must make decisions in the face of uncertainty. Social considerations may somewhat alleviate this unpre...

Along with the emergence of Web 2.0, User Generated Content (UGC) is becoming increasingly important for knowledge sharing. Wikipedia being the world’s largest-ever community-based collaborative encyclopedia, is also one of the biggest UGC databases in the world. Wikipedia is dealing with a significant problem of Information Quality (IQ) because of...

Wikipedia is the largest collaborative encyclopedia published on the internet. Due to its ‘open source' model, Wikipedia faces many issues regarding its Information Quality (IQ). Due to this reason, Wikipedia is generally not recommended for academic and research activities. However, hybrid approach which utilizes both content and metadata st...

Presentation for the paper titled, "𝑴𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈-𝑩𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝑻𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝒕𝒐 𝑫𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒂 𝑯𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒆𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝑰𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔"

A database is one of the prime media to store data. Most of the time, relational databases are preferred over other databases due to their ability to represent complex relationships between data. Languages like Structured Query Language (SQL) are used to retrieve data stored in relational databases. Information stored in these databases is often ac...

Social media platforms have emerged rapidly with technological advancements. Facebook, the most widely used social media platform has been the primary reason for the spread of hatred in Sri Lanka in the recent past. When a post with Sinhala hate content is reported on Facebook, it is translated to the English language before the review of the moder...

Previous studies have tried to assess the Information Quality (IQ) of Wikipedia articles using various indicators such as informativeness, editors’ reputation, word count, article age, etc. However, there is no attempt of adopting web presence as an IQ indicator. This study examines the relative importance of the web presence of a Wikipedia article...

Delivery of core programming principles to novices is a challenging task and many introductory programming languages and platforms have been designed to support this process. Educational programming languages generally focus on alleviating the syntax overhead enforced on novice learners by designing languages with simple and concise keywords. Furth...

A study was conducted to learn how e-participation initiatives are related to the quality of life of citizens and whether this relationship depends on their cultural dimensions; namely, (a) power distance; (b) individualism; (c) masculinity; and (d) uncertainty avoidance. The literature on Theory of Modernization, Sociotechnical Theory, e-participa...

Hate speech on social media platforms (SMPs) has the potential to cause harm within cyberspace and in real life. Existing evidence shows that hate is expressed through psychological distance. However, the precise form of the functional relationship between hate speech and psychological distance is unknown. In this research, an instrument to compute...

Social media has been identified as a propagation mechanism between online hate speech and real-life incidents. Since social media can initiate as well as incite violent activities, exponential growth in hate speech on social media platforms has become a threat to society. Thus, social media platforms have taken certain measures such as: 1) improvi...

People listen to music as it expresses and induce emotions. Considering millions of songs available in online streaming services, it is difficult to identify the most suitable song for an emotion of a user. Most of the music recommendation systems available today, are based on user ratings and acoustic features of the songs. Those systems are unabl...

Designing and developing a database is a crucial task in the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). To design a database, it is essential to have proper knowledge about drawing Entity-Relationship (ER) Diagrams. Drawing ER diagrams is challenging for novices and people without a technical background. Furthermore, to retrieve data from a database req...

Complex Event Processing (CEP) Systems is a technology that is used in many modern fields of application such as finance and business analysis. It tracks and analyses data from large information streams pertaining to a string of related or non-related events in order to identify patterns and relations that could be used derive useful connectio...

A huge amount of user generated content related to movies is created with the popularization of web 2.0. With these continues exponential growth of data, there is an inevitable need for recommender systems as people find it difficult to make informed and timely decisions. Movie recommendation systems assist users to find the next interest or the be...

Airline industry has provided a significantly conventional, faster and reliable mode of transportation for passengers and freight over the decades in which the industry has been in service despite the pressure being applied especially in maintaining operational affordability. The study critically reviews the techniques and tools, infrastructure and...

People rely on their trusted circle of friends for advice and recommendations on everything from travel destinations to purchase decisions. With the extensive use of social networks these relationships are now taken to an electronic platform, where they manifest as likes, comments, wall posts, etc., on social media networks. This paper explores the...

Humans are more familiar to hand drawn sketches than to any other mode of expressing ideas. Specially, laymen find it easy to understand content represented in visual form than in textual form. For example, UML diagrams are used as a standard technique to visually present designs of software systems; which could be easily understood by novices to s...

Travel recommender systems are gaining a higher popularity in the society due to their capability of planning trips in a short time period. The challenge of providing the most accurate recommendations has become a complex and difficult task due to the numerous variations in user preferences. In order to provide the most accurate recommendations, it...

A health analytics process model is necessary to carryout projects in a manageable and a repeatable way without having to rely on the individual skills and experiences. This study is one of the first steps in developing a comprehensive process model for health analytics. Literature suggests that successful IT systems require project management, com...

Data analytic methodologies proposed to improve the productivity of a data analytic process have failed due to user resistance for changing their existing working practices. Thus, an attempt was made in this paper to determine methodological attributes influencing user acceptance, using literature on software engineering methodology adoption, Theor...

Proliferation of health information and patient communication had allowed patients to have deeper understanding of their ailments leading to positive effects on personal health management (PHM). There are many PHM systems developed in the form of web and mobile applications to cultivate personal responsibility for one’s own health. Thus, this paper...

This cross-national study evaluates the contingency of the relationship between ICT initiatives and public health outcomes on (1) education; (2) macro-economic stability and; (3) institutions. Resource Based View’s resource complementary perspective and literature on Information and Communication Technology and delivery of public health are used as...

This cross sectional country level study inspects how the relationship between national eHealth initiatives and level of health standards are contingent on culture, education and infrastructure. Resource complementary perspective based on Resource Based View (RBV) and literature on culture and eHealth outcomes are used as the theoretical lens. Publ...

This cross-national study examines the relative importance of contextual factors facilitating e-health development in a nation. Moreover, this study examines the relationship between web presence and health development. Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework and PEST factors of a firm are used as the guiding theoretical lens. Publicly...

A mobile based Personal Healthcare Management Social Media (PHMSM) platform is created to cultivate personal responsibility for one's own health using a gamified approach. Through this, users will be encouraged to promote their health without much effort. The proposed cross-dimensional patient centric analytic platform will utilize predictive analy...

This cross-national study examines how the relationship between national eHealth initiatives and health outcomes are contingent on (1) macro-economic stability; (2) GDP per capita; and (3) institutions. Resource Based View's (RBV) resource complementary perspective and literature on Information Technology and health outcomes are used as the guiding...

Despite the growing demand for e-Learning, the importance of role of a good teacher in a learning session is undisputable. We have exploited Theravada Buddhist concept of Iddhipada, which identifies four mental factors, namely, desire- to-do, mindfulness, effort and investigation as key factors to successful learning, to emulate the role of a good...