Hind Bitar

King Abdulaziz University · Department of Information Systems

A significant number of elementary school students experience challenges related to lunch, including forgetting lunch money, lacking awareness of their individual dietary needs, and the importance of balanced nutritional choices for their overall health. Numerous parents and guardians struggle to monitor their children at school, control their purc...

While online shopping has become popular in recent years, certain problems related to customer expectations about the appearance and fitting of clothing items still need to be solved. Online customers looking for clothing products may be unsatisfied as they do not have the possibility to try on clothes and view how they would look on them. Addition...

Deaf-mute people have much potential to contribute to society. However, communication between deaf-mutes and non-deaf-mutes is a problem that isolates deaf-mutes from society and prevents them from interacting with others. In this study, an information technology intervention, intelligent gloves (IG), a prototype of a two-way communication glove, w...

Objective This paper reviews the recent gamified interventions that focus on the dietary factor to explore the effectiveness of using gaming elements in combating the prevalence of childhood obesity. Methods Two electronic databases were searched (PubMed and ProQuest); to identify the relevant papers published between 2018 and 2021. The keywords t...

Objective: This study explored the information women want to know about HPV and cervical cancer, and the enablers or inhibitors that may contribute to, or prevent, seeking online health information. Methods: Two focus groups were conducted with women from the general public, followed by interviews with 12 physicians practicing in Saudi Arabia. T...

Grid reliability is one of the greatest challenges facing electric utilities. Energy storage will play an important role in meeting these challenges by enhancing the grid's operating capabilities, lowering costs, ensuring high reliability, and deferring and reducing infrastructure investments. This paper offers a taxonomy of the advantages of energ...

Background As of 2022, people are getting better at learning how to coexist with the Covid-19 global pandemic. In Saudi Arabia, many attempts have been made to raise public health awareness. However, most health awareness campaigns are generic and might not influence the desired behavior among individuals. Objectives This study aims to apply geosp...

Despite the availability of online educational resources about human papillomavirus (HPV), many women around the world may be prevented from obtaining the necessary knowledge about HPV. One way to mitigate the lack of HPV knowledge is the use of auto-generated text summarization tools. This study compares the level of HPV knowledge between women wh...

Mobile health (mHealth) has been widely invested in managing chronic diseases. The usage of mHealth could assist in improving patients’ understanding of their chronic diseases. This research contributes to this domain of knowledge by investigating the development and use of a mHealth that we call, Ana Alsukkary. This tool targets Saudi children wit...

This study aims to utilize the machine learning technique to build a model to recommend the suitable wind turbine type based on some variables, such as air speed and air density, as well as visualize the location of the recommended wind turbine selection on a 3D map. Particularly, we applied the K-nearest neighbor model (KNN) to determine the amoun...

Concerning the cancer burden in Saudi Arabia, studies have predicted a 6 to 10-fold increase in 2020 and 2030, respectively, compared to 2004. The most common genotypes of human papillomavirus (HPV) are 16 and 18, responsible for almost 72.4% of all cervical cancer cases in Saudi Arabia; inhibiting this infection will be fruitful in preventing the...

Background Designing a health promotion campaign is never an easy task, especially during a pandemic of a highly infectious disease such as COVID-19. In Saudi Arabia, many attempts have been made to raise public awareness about COVID-19 infection and precautionary health measures. However, most of the health information delivered through the nation...

Hearing loss or deafness affects the daily lives of many people around the world. One of the issues that people who are deaf or hard of hearing face is the difficulty in understanding the audio content of the videos they are watching. This study proposes an Android app to assist individuals with hearing disabilities in Saudi Arabia by providing tra...

Augmented reality (AR) is one of the leading communication technologies being investigated and applied in several contexts. Medical training and health education are two of the fields pioneering the innovation of AR to improve the quality of medical outcomes. In this action design research (ADR), we developed an android mobile application called “C...

The visualization of objects of an abstract nature has always been a challenge for chemistry learners. Thus, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have been heavily invested in as immersive learning methods for these concepts. This study targets the segment of the chemistry curriculum involving the chemical elements of the periodic table....

Background Designing a health promotion campaign is never an easy task, especially during a pandemic of a highly infectious disease such as COVID-19. In Saudi Arabia, many attempts have been made to raise public awareness about COVID-19 infection and precautionary health measures. However, most of the health information delivered through the nation...

Objective To summarize the current status of, and the current expert opinions, recommendation and evidence associated with the use and implementation of electronic health (eHealth), telemedicine, and/or telehealth to provide healthcare services for chronic disease patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and methods We searched four electr...

Littering contributes significantly to environmental pollution. Previous studies have noted that children are more likely to litter than adults. This target age group can be easily reached through mobile applications and games. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the effect of a gamified application in raising awareness on the effect of litte...

BACKGROUND Designing a health promotion campaign is never an easy task, especially during a pandemic of a highly infectious disease, such as Covid-19. In Saudi Arabia, many attempts have been made toward raising the public awareness about Covid-19 infection-level and its precautionary health measures that have to be taken. Although this is useful,...

The Electric Vehicle (EV) market is one of the most rapidly changing and fastest growing high-tech sectors in the United States. The relatively small number of large-scale public vehicle-charging stations makes recharging electric vehicles problematic, if not impossible at times. Decisions on making more charging stations are not as simple as simpl...

In the United States, about 1/3 of seniors die with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) or a related dementia. Age, family history, education, and lifestyle are some of the most important factors leading to AD among adults. This research paper investigates how to motivate adults who are 50 years or older to visit a/their primary physician regularly in order t...

There is a combination of tests available for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD), but they are sometimes difficult to administer, and often require a physician to administer and interpret the results. This project is an attempt at combining the most effective AD early diagnosis tests into one application that either caregivers or physi...