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A Simple Survey on Attitude of Computer Science Diploma Students towards STEM Azniah Ismail; Nor Zuhaidah Mohamed Zain; Harnani Mat Zin
International Journal of Humanities, Management and Social Science Vol 2 No 2 (2019)
Publisher : Lamintang Education and Training Centre, in collaboration with the International Association of Educators, Scientists, Technologists, and Engineers (IA-ESTE)

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36079/lamintang.ij-humass-0202.35

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This article reported a simple survey on diploma students’ attitudes towards science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) objectively to get an initial impression of students taking a STEM-related diploma program. The targeted respondents were diploma students pursuing computer science programs in a Malaysian public university. A quantitative approach using a quantitative survey was used in which data were systematically elicited from 16 male and 17 female students using a questionnaire containing Likert-scale items. The questionnaire consists of three constructs: attitude toward science, attitude toward technology and engineering, and attitude toward mathematics. All constructs use a 5-point Likert scale for the response scale. Descriptive analysis showed that the respondents’ attitude ranged between moderately to highly positive towards STEM with no significance different variation between genders across the STEM fields. Interestingly, they also had, generally, moderate consideration for careers in STEM fields (the average values ranged between 27.2% and 42.4%) with male respondents had very low agreements (18.7%) to consider careers related to technology and engineering fields. Such results were a bit discouraging as the respondents were all pursuing a diploma in computer science.Thus, more efforts are needed by the university to give more exposures and experiences to refine the students’ attitude during their study, to boost their confidence and interest to pursue a career suitable with their diploma certificates.
An Early Development Process of an Augmented Reality-Based Healthy Diet Tool Prototype Nur'Aina Norhalim; Azniah Ismail
International Journal of Multimedia and Recent Innovation Vol 2 No 2 (2020)
Publisher : Lamintang Education and Training Centre, in collaboration with the International Association of Educators, Scientists, Technologists, and Engineers (IA-ESTE)

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36079/lamintang.ijmari-0202.133

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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.