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Mahdi H. Miraz

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arXiv2017

User Interface (UI) Design Issues for the Multilingual Users: A Case Study

A multitude of web and desktop applications are now widely available in diverse human languages. This paper explores the design issues that are specifically relevant for multilingual users. It reports on the continued studies of Information System (IS) issues and users' behaviour across cross-cultural and transnational boundaries. Taking the BBC website as a model that is internationally recognised, usability tests were conducted to compare different versions of the website. The dependant variables derived from the questionnaire were analysed (via descriptive statistics) to elucidate the multilingual UI design issues. Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA), five de-correlated variables were identified which were then used for hypotheses tests. A modified version of Herzberg's Hygiene-motivational Theory about the Workplace was applied to assess the components used in the website. Overall, it was concluded that the English versions of the website gave superior usability results and this implies the need for deeper study of the problems in usability of the translated versions.

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arXiv2017

Usability Evaluation of a Mobile Application in Extraordinary Environment for Extraordinary People

In a contemporary world, people become dependent on electronic devices. Technologies help to clarification and structure life in many ways to meet the need of the children oriented requirements. The children suffering from disabilities (e.g. autism) has desperate needs for elucidation and structures their life. MumIES is a research based system facilitates to support and manage their living. This paper works on MumIES system to evaluate usability of the system in extraordinary environment for extraordinary people. The paper shows from the survey observation users need supporting tools to access the children's potential and challenges and to give the full support to overcome disabilities. Usability evaluation has been considered one of the key challenges to MumIES system. The paper represents analysis, design of usability studies for the extraordinary user in environment.

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arXiv2017

P-Governance Technology: Using Big Data for Political Party Management

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been playing a pivotal role since the last decade in developing countries that brings citizen services to the doorsteps and connecting people. With this aspiration ICT has introduced several technologies of citizen services towards all categories of people. The purpose of this study is to examine the Governance technology perspectives for political party, emphasizing on the basic critical steps through which it could be operationalized. We call it P-Governance. P-Governance shows technologies to ensure governance, management, interaction communication in a political party by improving decision making processes using big data. P-Governance challenges the competence perspective to apply itself more assiduously to operationalization, including the need to choose and give definition to one or more units of analysis (of which the routine is a promising candidate). This paper is to focus on research challenges posed by competence to which P-Governance can and should respond include different strategy issues faced by particular sections. Both the qualitative as well as quantitative research approaches were conducted. The standard of citizen services, choice & consultation, courtesy & consultation, entrance & information, and value for money have found the positive relation with citizen's satisfaction. This study results how can be technology make important roles on political movements in developing countries using big data.

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arXiv2017

Mobile Academy: A Ubiquitous Mobile Learning (mLearning) Platform

The paper reports on an ongoing research project into the development of "Mobile Academy", an Android-based mobile learning (mLearning) application (app). The project comprises three major phases: requirement analysis, application development and testing and evaluation. To satisfy the user requirement analysis, a detailed ethnographic study was conducted to investigate how people from different background use mobile devices for learning purposes. The initial analysis and evaluation of the first version of the projected app demonstrates very promising results. Making use of the app seemed to have, in general, a positive dimension in facilitating educational use of mobile devices.

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arXiv2017

A Framework for Android Based Shopping Mall Applications

Android is Google's latest open source software platform for mobile devices which has already attained enormous popularity. The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of mobile application for shopping mall using Android platform. A prototype was developed for the shoppers of Bashundhara Shopping Mall of Bangladesh. This prototype will serve as a framework for any such applications (apps). The paper presents a practical demonstration of how to integrate shops' information, such as names, categories, locations, descriptions, floor layout and so forth, with map module via an android application. A summary of survey results of the related literature and projects have also been included. Critical Evaluation of the prototype along with future research and development plan has been revealed. The paper will serve as a guideline for the researchers and developers to introduce and develop similar apps.

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arXiv2017

Multilingual Website Usability Analysis Based on an International User Survey

A study was undertaken to determine the important usability factors (UF) used in the English and the non-English version of a website. The important usability factors were determined, based on a detailed questionnaire used in an international survey. Analysis of the questionnaire found inequalities in the user satisfaction and a general dissatisfaction with the non-English version of the website. The study concluded that more care should be taken in creating the text, taking into account the cultural and linguistic background of the users and the use of graphics in multilingual websites.

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arXiv2017

Analysis of QoS of VoIP Traffic through WiFi-UMTS Networks

Simulation of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) traffic through UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication System) and WiFi (IEEE 802.11x) alone and together are analysed for Quality of Service (QoS) performance. The average jitter of VoIP transiting the WiFi-UMTS network has been found to be lower than that of either solely through the WiFi and the UMTS networks. It is normally expected to be higher than traversing through the WiFi network only. Both the MOS (Mean Opinion Score) and the packet end-to-end delay were also found to be much lower than expected through the heterogeneous WiFi-UMTS network.

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arXiv2017

Success Criteria For Implementing Technology in Special Education: a Case Study

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has made a large investment in deploying technology to develop the infrastructure and resources for special education. The aims of the present research were to find out the rate of return of these investments in terms of success and, based on the findings, to propose a framework for success criteria. To achieve these aims, a mixed methodology-based research was conducted. Our study found that the use of technology in special education could not reach the desired level of implementation. We found that various success criteria such as professional experience and technology skills of special educators, administrative support, assistive hardware issues and assistive software issues, pedagogical issues, and teaching style are the key influencing factors of the implementation process.

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arXiv2017

Simulation and Analysis of Quality of Service (QoS) Parameters of Voice over IP (VoIP) Traffic through Heterogeneous Networks

Identifying those causes and parameters that affect the Quality of Service (QoS) of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) through heterogeneous networks such as WiFi, WiMAX and between them are carried out using the OPNET simulation tool. Optimization of the network for both intra- and intersystem traffic to mitigate the deterioration of the QoS are discussed. The average value of the jitter of the VoIP traffic traversing through the WiFi-WiMAX network was observed to be higher than that of utilizing WiFi alone at some points in time. It is routinely surmised to be less than that of transiting across the WiFi network only and obviously higher than passing through the increased bandwidth network of WiMAX. Moreover, both the values of the packet end-to-end delay and the Mean Opinion Score (MOS) were considerably higher than expected. The consequences of this optimization, leading to a solution, which can ameliorate the QoS over these networks are analyzed and offered as the conclusion of this ongoing research.

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