Evolutionary Prototype Model Research Articles

Interactive Mobile Application in Learning Iban Language

My Iban application is an interactive mobile application for learning the Iban language. The aim of this study is to develop a mobile application that is focusing on creating alternative tools in learning Iban language where it will ease the students to learn. This application development is based on the problem that occurred when there is no suitable application in learning Iban language among the students in primary school. The methodology that has been chosen in developing the application is the Evolutionary Prototyping model. Quantitative technique is used to test and evaluate My Iban applications. Based on the findings obtained from the users through a survey, it finds out that My Iban application have gained positive feedback. The functionality and the usability of My Iban application has been tested and approved by the user. For future works, the use of interactive multimedia elements in developing mobile applications need to be improved. In conclusion, the application hopefully can encourage the students to learn the Iban language better via mobile application.

Solar Exhaust Fan with Temperature Sensor

Household nowadays need to face the global warming and also have to face increase in cost of living. In this era also, especially Malaysia is the one of developer country, so there so many developments. So this situation can lead to many crises to the household for example dust, high temperature, and the increasing in the electrical bill. This study was aimed to develop solar exhaust fan with temperature sensor that can help the household to overcome the issue. The project used the evolutionary prototyping model. Quantitative method approaches were used for this study where 33 participants were participating in the survey before design the system and 32 respondent respond to survey during the user acceptance testing.

Anxiety Assistance Mobile Apps Chatbot Using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

The current pandemic COVID-19 and lockdown have worsened patients' health, especially those who suffer from an anxiety disorder. However, anxiety disorders are treatable by undergoing different therapies treatment. This paper aims to develop an Anxiety Assistant Mobile Apps Chatbot (ANUVA) for university students using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Structured activities are used to motivate the user to question their thought distortions and change them back. The ANUVA chatbot is developed using Evolutionary Prototyping Model. The effectiveness of the ANUVA chatbot was tested using Confusion Matrix. The result indicates that the accuracy of the ANUVA chatbot is 75%, precision 85% and recall 88%. The System Usability Scale (SUS) test was used to measure the usability, and the score shows 86.75 for the result. For future work, all the chat records will link with the counselling unit system to enhance the efficiency of the therapies.

Design and Development of Smartphone Application Control

Smartphone Application Control is a project designed to block other phone applications that have excessive use by users. Excessive phone use is often experienced by children aged 7-18 years old. At the same time, many parents nowadays do not have time all day long to monitor and limit the use of their children’s phone due to work. The efforts of the mass media to advise on the use of phone do not give much positive impact on these children. Therefore, a robust alternative such as Smartphone Application Control is essential to curb these issues. To develop this application, a methodological approach has been used namely the Evolutionary Prototyping model. Android Studio version 3.6.2 is used to develop this application while SQLite Database acts as a database for storing all application usage statistics and Google-Cloud Firebase is used to store user-related information for user authentication purposes. To create an attractive user interface, Adobe Photoshop CS6 is used to design background and interface buttons. This app is able to track usage hours of other apps and block them if they exceed their daily usage limits. The time limit for such use can only be set by parents. Additionally, notification of excess usage will be sent to parents via email as a notification. A pop-up alert notification will be issued when user has reached his or her application limit. Smartphone Application Control is very important in helping user to control their phone usage behaviour.

A Secure and Efficient Multi-Factor Authentication Algorithm for Mobile Money Applications

With the expansion of smartphone and financial technologies (FinTech), mobile money emerged to improve financial inclusion in many developing nations. The majority of the mobile money schemes used in these nations implement two-factor authentication (2FA) as the only means of verifying mobile money users. These 2FA schemes are vulnerable to numerous security attacks because they only use a personal identification number (PIN) and subscriber identity module (SIM). This study aims to develop a secure and efficient multi-factor authentication algorithm for mobile money applications. It uses a novel approach combining PIN, a one-time password (OTP), and a biometric fingerprint to enforce extra security during mobile money authentication. It also uses a biometric fingerprint and quick response (QR) code to confirm mobile money withdrawal. The security of the PIN and OTP is enforced by using secure hashing algorithm-256 (SHA-256), a biometric fingerprint by Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) that uses a standard public key cryptography technique (RSA), and Fernet encryption to secure a QR code and the records in the databases. The evolutionary prototyping model was adopted when developing the native mobile money application prototypes to prove that the algorithm is feasible and provides a higher degree of security. The developed applications were tested, and a detailed security analysis was conducted. The results show that the proposed algorithm is secure, efficient, and highly effective against the various threat models. It also offers secure and efficient authentication and ensures data confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, user anonymity, and privacy. The performance analysis indicates that it achieves better overall performance compared with the existing mobile money systems.

Blockchain-Based Trusted Property Transactions in the Built Environment: Development of an Incubation-Ready Prototype

Blockchain can be introduced to use cases in the built environment where reliability of transaction records is paramount. Blockchain facilitates decentralised, cryptographically secure, trustworthy, and immutable recordkeeping of transactions. However, more research is urgently required to understand the process and complications in implementing blockchain solutions in the built environment. This paper demonstrates a methodology for developing a blockchain system starting from problem analysis, selection of blockchain platform, system modelling, prototype development, and evaluation. The evolutionary prototyping model was selected as the software development methodology for the use case of property transactions. A systematic process protocol involving the multi-criteria decision-making method, Simple Multi Attribute Rating Technique (SMART), was used to select Hyperledger Fabric as the most suitable blockchain platform for the prototype. The system architecture facilitates a simplified, lean property transaction process implemented through chaincode (smart contract) algorithms and graphical user interfaces. System evaluation through test cases allowed iterative improvements, leading to an incubation-ready software prototype. The contribution to knowledge of this paper is in the demonstration of the process to follow to implement a blockchain solution for a specific domain. The findings provide the foundation for developing proofs of concept for other potential applications of blockchain in the built environment.

Designing loss event database using evolutionary prototyping model to perform bank operational risk management identification process

Many banks in Indonesia have failed in the process of transformation towards their vision, due to a lack of awareness in managing risk and not growing a risk-based culture. The external and internal environment of the banking system is experiencing rapid development which will be followed by increasingly complex risks for banking business activities. Loss Event Database is a solution to perform the function of identifying and measuring Operational Risk Self-Assessment. The research method used to design and build a Loss Event Database refers to the Evolutionary Prototyping model where at each stage, the involvement of developers and users is intensely carried out. The implementation of Operational Risk Self-Assessment through the development of a Loss Event Database using the Evolutionary Prototyping model is able to reduce the operational risk rating from the Moderate to Low to Moderate level, meeting the requirements of good corporate governance in accordance with applicable regulations and best practices in the banking world.

Implementing Student Attendance System Using Fingerprint Biometrics for Kolej Universiti Poly-Tech Mara

Recording students’ attendance has been a major concern at Kolej Universiti Poly-Tech Mara. However, monitoring the attendance manually is a cumbersome issue to lecturers as students tend to manipulate the attendance by signing each other’s attendance. It has been found that fingerprint biometrics is capable to monitor the attendance systematically and efficiently. The aim of this study is to verify the students’ attendance using fingerprint biometrics. Evolutionary prototyping model were used to develop the students’ attendance system. Students are required to thumbprint using the fingerprint device installed in the classroom to record the students’ attendance. Their fingerprint images were captured by the fingerprint device and the images were then registered to the server for attendance process. The implementation of fingerprint biometric has helped lecturers to monitor the attendance of the students more systematic, efficient and ethically. By using the system embedded with biometrics, reporting on absenteeism is genuine and easy. Lecturers just need to print out and do necessary action. Therefore, fingerprint biometrics is useful and helpful in keeping track and managing the attendance of the students.

An Early Development Process of an Augmented Reality-Based Healthy Diet Tool Prototype

This paper presents an early development process of an augmented reality-based healthy diet tool prototype i.e. getting the initial requirements for the prototype. This tool is being developed using the evolutionary prototype model. Thus, the tool development will follow several complete 4-phase iterations of the prototype model. To get the initial requirements, we have analysed several existing applications that are related to diet, food and cooking. We found out that the augmented reality is not a common feature. We had also conducted an interview with one of 2018 diet challenge participants. The interviewee welcomed the idea of having augmented reality in the diet tool with a condition that the feature should be designed to accommodate the users. Therefore, several iterations will be conducted to get the best specifications for a diet tool prototype and finding the best ways to embed the augmented reality features into the tool. We will also validate with experts sets of menu, advice and instructions to be used in the tool. It is hoped that our effort will help in developing a reliable, healthy diet tool with suitable augmented reality feature.

Smartphone App to Self-Monitor Nausea During Pediatric Chemotherapy Treatment: User-Centered Design Process

BackgroundNausea and vomiting are common and distressing side effects for children receiving chemotherapy. Limited evidence is available to guide antiemetic recommendations; therefore, prospective and reliable evaluation of antiemetic efficacy is needed. Smartphone apps can be used to effortlessly and precisely collect patient-reported outcomes in real time.ObjectiveOur objective was to develop a smartphone app to monitor nausea and vomiting episodes in pediatric cancer patients aged 0 to 18 years and to test its usability and adherence to its use.MethodsWe used a user-centered design process and the evolutionary prototype model to develop and evaluate the app. Multidisciplinary group discussions and several rounds of patient feedback and modification were conducted. We translated the validated Pediatric Nausea Assessment Tool to assess nausea severity in children aged 4 to 18 years. The child’s own term for nausea was interactively incorporated in the nausea severity question, with response options expressed as 4 illustrative faces. Parent-reported outcomes were used for children aged 0 to 3 years. Reminders were sent using push notifications in order to ensure high response rates. Children aged 0 to 18 years who were undergoing chemotherapy were recruited from the Department of Pediatric Oncology at Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet to evaluate the app.ResultsThe app’s most important function was to record nausea severity in children. After assistance from a researcher, children aged 4 to 18 years were able to report their symptoms in the app, and parents were able to report symptoms for their children aged 0 to 3 years. Children (n=20, aged 2.0-17.5 years) and their parents evaluated the app prospectively during a collective total of 60 chemotherapy cycles. They expressed that the app was user-friendly, intuitive, and that the time spent on data entry was fair. The response rates were on average 92%, 93%, and 80% for the day before, the first day of, and the next 3 days after chemotherapy, respectively. Researchers and clinicians were able to obtain an overview of the patient’s chemotherapy dates and responses through a secure and encrypted web-based administrative portal. Data could be downloaded for further analysis.ConclusionsThe user-friendly app could be used to facilitate future pediatric antiemetic trials and to refine antiemetic treatment during chemotherapy.

Sistem Integrasi Aplikasi Desktop Klinik MCU TKI Pada Medical Center Purwokerto

Information technology integration is expected to be able to accommodate the ease and improvement in supporting database platforms through intranet and internet infrastructure. Integration is intended to blend desktop and web database systems. Medical Checkup Purwokerto is a designated place to facilitate the checkup health of the official PJTKI Banyumas Disnaker BNP2TKI. The current system, which is a check-up application, is carried out by prospective Indonesian Workers or Medical checkup units, covering many processes including registration, health checks, types, results, payments and reports. There was a buildup of operational activities Clinical work on a daily basis, by the administrator of the medical record so that management aimed at developing a web-based clinical information system includes the scope of the processed database components, access authorization, and security. The method used is the software development life cycle (SDLC) with the Evolutionary Prototype Model. Results, patient data can be integrated as a whole process flow with a client-server network architecture

Designing Storylines for Children’s Mathematics Digital Interactive Storybook using Software Engineering Approach

This paper presents an early part of designing process for a math interactive storybook application prototype with 3D pop-up and augmented reality features. This application is designed using the evolutionary prototype model where we are required to have several complete 4-phases prototype model cycles. Several iterations were conducted specially to focus on getting the best storylines for a mathematics learning tool that involves 3D pop-up and augmented reality features. The process is still on-going. We will also validate with experts the storyline and the suitability of the story with the mathematic topics chosen. Once the design is validated, we will continue building the prototype andvalidate it with potential users until all features are satisfied. It is hoped that later this application will be accepted as an interesting learning tool and contribute as an educational learning resource for children.

IonFluid: Designing and Developing A Water Level Notification System

The difficulties to access the information to retrieve the river’s water level status at the area of Sungai Sembrong causes the residents nearby to insensitive and complacent towards the threat of flood hazard that can occur in just in a matter of seconds and can destroy their property and also can cause the loss of life. ionFluid is an online water level notification system for Android based application that allow users to receive water level status of a river. Users can receive water level status by using mobile device either by SMS or Push Notification technology. This system will be The methodology used to develop this Android system is Evolutionary Prototyping model. Software technology used to develop this system is Ionic Framework where this technology uses web technology to develop mobile hybrid application. Database used for this system is MariaDB while programming language used to develop this system is PHP, AngularJS, HTML and SCSS. Hereby, developed system can increase the awareness of the public to be more cautious against environmental threats especially floods disaster.

PSAP: Improving Accuracy of Students' Final Grade Prediction using ID3 and C4.5

PSAP: Improving Accuracy of Students' Final Grade Prediction using ID3 and C4.5
 This study was aimed to increase the performance of the Predicting Student Academic Performance (PSAP) system, and the outcome is to develop a web application that can be used to analyze student performance during present semester. Development of the web-based application was based on the evolutionary prototyping model. The study also analyses the accuracy of the classifier that is constructed for the prediction features in the web application. Qualitative approaches by user evaluation questionnaire were used for this study. A number of few personnel expert users which are lecturers from Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris were chosen as respondents. Each respondent is instructed to answer a total of 27 questions regarding respondent’s background and web application design. The accuracy of the classifier for the prediction features is tested by using the confusion matrix by using the test set of 24 rows. The findings showed the views of respondents on the aspects of interface design, functionality, navigation, and reliability of the web-based application that is developed. The result also showed that accuracy for the classifier constructed by using ID3 classification model (C4.5) is 79.18% and the highest compared to Naïve Bayes and Generalized Linear classification model.

Online Research Portal

A Web Portal is a website or service that offers a broad array of resources and online services, such as search engines, directories, news, e-mail, and online information. Portals have evolved to provide a customized gateway to Web information. This study aimed to develop an Online Research Portal. Specifically, it aimed to create an online repository of researches and articles, publish researches and articles online, manage web content, distribute content depending on the user privileges and access level, create a venue for collaboration with other research institutions, create linkages with other research institutions, access information while off-campus, and disseminate latest update on research. An Evolutionary Prototype Model was used to develop the system and a test case was used to test the functionality. The respondents of the study were the randomly selected 25 Faculty of ISAT U Miagao Campus as well as 5 IT Experts coming from different sectors, and the system was evaluated by the IT Experts and Faculty using ISO 9126 software quality characteristics such as functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability, and portability. Mean and standard deviation were used as statistical tool for this study. The experts’ evaluation of the system based on ISO 9126 criteria is effective and the faculty evaluation is very effective. The overall result of the evaluation is very effective, and the system meets the criteria for software quality characteristics; therefore, it is recommended to be implemented.

Development and Evaluation of Centralized Collection and Delivery System of New Canaan Insurance Agency, Inc.

The use of information technology at present is considered as one of the solutions for business establishments for their expense and quality issues. It is their key to staying ahead of their competitors. The study is intended to trace and monitor the transactions of the New Canaan Insurance Agency, Inc. (NCIA) involving collection, payment, delivery, and pick-up. It also monitored the performance of the liaison officers and the request of transaction is centralized. The researcher developed the Centralized Collection and Delivery System (CCDS) of New Canaan Insurance Agency, Inc (NCIA). The descriptive and applied types of research were employed in the study. Data were gathered through interview and feedback form. The respondents were from the 28 employees of NCIA. The Evolutionary Prototype model was used in the development of the system and the USE questionnaire to test its usability. The gathered data were analyzed and interpreted using frequency count and mean. Findings revealed that the procedures on collection, delivery, payment, and pick-up start with an employee's request forwarded to the liaison officers which is done manually. Using the Evolutionary Prototype Model, the Centralized Collection and Delivery System was developed. The developed system was found to be efficient because it was designed to fit the needs of NCIA.

Applying evolutionary prototyping model for eliciting system requirement of meat traceability at agribusiness level

Traceability has become an effective method of ensuring food safety and connecting stakeholders in the food chain. There is an increasing growth trend in developing IT-based traceability system in recent years. But implementing hastily traceability system is likely to fail to achieve its goal if the system requirement has not been well-defined according to the changing business environment. This paper adopted an evolutionary prototyping model and used longitudinal case study to elicit the traceability system requirement at the level of agribusiness. The results show that a traceability system can support not only information tracking at operational level, but also diagnostic analysis and strategic decision making at managerial level, Hence, system requirements can be categorized as fundamental, decisive and strategic levels. The evolutionary prototyping model can improve the effectiveness of requirement elicitation.

Applying evolutionary prototyping model in developing FIDSS: An intelligent decision support system for fish disease/health management

Fish disease and health management is becoming a key barrier and major problem that currently limits expanded production and sustainable development of aquaculture and bring out food-safety issues. There has been a marked growth of interest in developing expert system to aid fish disease/health management. The literature shows that a few have been used to any extent due to the lack of deep user requirement analysis and long-term support and maintenance. This paper presents the effort to apply evolutionary prototyping model in developing an intelligent decision support system for fish disease/health management. The paper describes in detail about the four evolution stages as the system development experienced, every stage including the system design and implementation, feedback and requirement from system evaluation, and system redevelopment until a blown system. At last the evolution process is concluded from three directions. The evolutionary prototyping benefits and challenges experienced during the development and promotion are also discussed from the project management perceptive.

CyberIST :a virtual game for medical education

SUMMARY This paper describes a computer-based quiz game, CyberIST, for medical education developed using design strategies similar to commercial video games. These include high-quality three-dimensional graphics, multimedia and highly interactive sequences. CyberIST is a new type of computerbased learning programme and introduces game-play and entertainment into adult learning. A new mark-up language for efficiently storing multiple format questions that can be used for CD-ROM or Internet programmes is also described. CyberIST is being developed by a multi-skilled team drawing on expertise from computer science, medical education and medical content using a structured approach to development that includes an evolutionary prototyping model.