Ryan MACDONELL Andrias

Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) | ums

This study focuses on identifying and analyzing spending trend profiles and developing the per capita consumption models to forecast the fresh agro-food per capita consumption in Malaysia. Previous published works have looked at statistical and machine learning methods to forecast the demand of agro-food such as ARIMA and SVM methods. However, ordi...

Gamification is defined as the use of game design elements in non-game contexts. It is noteworthy that a user preference towards a game mechanic and game element is different as an individual. A common approach to satisfy user expectations is to include multiple game elements to accommodate all the user/player types. However, this approach may caus...

Mobile phone is considered as the most extensive technology created by human and can be seen as one with the highest adoption rates among technology in the modern history. This study focuses on identifying the influencing factors towards the intention to use mobile applications (m-application) to promote local handicraft in Sabah. A total of 200 qu...

Sonification is relatively a new field of research as compared to visualization. This field still requires more research to be conducted to produce more results that finally can be used as design guidelines. This paper discusses design issues and evaluation that need to be taken into consideration in designing sonification applications. The issues...

The paper presented insights into the descriptive usage of SNS from the integrated perspectives of TAM. Other than communicating with others, the respondents of the study are looking for fun and enjoyment from using SNS. In fact, the perceived enjoyment and attitude provides higher percentage as compared to perceived usefulness.

This paper focuses on the influence of inspectors’ experience and knowledge towards the reliability of the results of several usability inspection techniques for sonification applications. The inspection techniques used includes Cognitive Walkthrough, Heuristics Evaluation and Task Interpretation Walkthrough. Suitable technique, number of inspector...

Learning organisation and learning culture have addressed great attention from business community around the globe. This factor of organisational human resource development terminology has prompted a variety of academics discussion and discipline, especially when come to the focal point of knowledge creation in modern business organisations. Thus,...