Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces Commons^™

The Staging Transformation Approach To Mixing Initiative, Robert Capra, Michael Narayan, Saverio Perugini, Naren Ramakrishnan, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Mixed-initiative interaction is an important facet of many conversational interfaces, flexible planning architectures, intelligent tutoring systems, and interactive information retrieval systems. Software systems for mixed-initiative interaction must enable us to both operationalize the mixing of initiative (i.e., support the creation of practical dialogs) and to reason in real-time about how a flexible mode of interaction can be supported (e.g., from a meta-dialog standpoint). In this paper, we present the staging transformation approach to mixing initiative, where a dialog script captures the structure of the dialog and dialog control processes are realized through generous use of program transformation techniques (e.g., partial …

Personalizing Interactions With Information Systems, Saverio Perugini, Naren Ramakrishnan

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Personalization constitutes the mechanisms and technologies necessary to customize information access to the end-user. It can be defined as the automatic adjustment of information content, structure, and presentation tailored to the individual. In this chapter, we study personalization from the viewpoint of personalizing interaction. The survey covers mechanisms for information-finding on the web, advanced information retrieval systems, dialog-based applications, and mobile access paradigms. Specific emphasis is placed on studying how users interact with an information system and how the system can encourage and foster interaction. This helps bring out the role of the personalization system as a facilitator which reconciles …

Crafting A Research Paper, Ronan Fitzpatrick, Kevin O'Donnell

Conference papers

Writing research papers presents numerous different challenges, which vary from how to layout the various pages and format the text to what to include in the different sections that make up the paper. In order to clarify these issues this paper sets out guidelines and best practice approaches and demonstrates their use in the style of this paper.

Analyzing Erp Implementation At A Public University Using The Innovation Strategy Model, Keng Siau, J. Messersmith

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have revolutionized the way companies are using information technology in their businesses. ERP was created in an effort to streamline business processes and has proven to be successful in many operations. Unfortunately, not all ERP implementations have met expectations. One way that businesses may be able to increase success rates is to embrace creativity and innovation in their ERP implementations. For businesses to do this, they must first understand how creativity originates and how that creativity can be integrated into business solutions. This article presents a case study that examines the ERP implementation at a …

Hci Research Issues In Electronic Commerce, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Sid Davis

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This article outlines a number of important research issues in human-computer interaction in the e-commerce environment. It highlights some of the challenges faced by users in browsing Web sites and conducting searches for information, and suggests several areas of research for promoting ease of navigation and search. Also, it discusses the importance of trust in the online environment, describing some of the antecedents and consequences of trust, and provides guidelines for integrating trust into Web site design. The issues discussed in this article are presented under three broad categories of human-computer interaction – Web usability, interface design, and trust – …

Design And Implementation Of An Online Database Panel, Frenny Thomas

Theses and Dissertations

There is a growing need for administrative panels such as the one described in this project. More and more website administrators wish to make changes to their online business without having to directly modify the database file. This project provides the perfect solution for this scenario by placing all database access on the World Wide Web. Administrators can now use this software to add, edit, and delete tables, fields, and records. Additionally, users will be able to generate queries without knowledge of Structured Query Language. This project acts as a summary of my computer science education at this university by …

Factors Influencing Adoption Of Mobile Computing, Wenli Zhu, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Fan Zhao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The emergence of mobile computing combined with the increased popularity of the Internet is changing our daily lives. The increasing use of small portable computers, wireless networks and satellites un folds the new technology of mobile computing, which allows transmis sion of data to computers that are not physically linked to a network. As a result, people can communicate on the move. Mobile devices with new input and output methods and form factors are dramatically different from traditional desktop computers (Rodden et al., 1998). These technological changes make increasing demands on both the quality of user interface and the functionality …

Sistem Maklumat Penapis Air, Boon Piew Chew

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Maklumat Penapis Air adalah satu sistem maklumat yang berkonsep multimedia dalam bentuk penyampaian maklumat secara maya (virtual) dan jelas dalam laman web. Versi sistem adalah dalam bahasa lnggeris. Maklumat penapis air yang disampaikan adalah penapis air yang berada di pasaran Malaysia. Sistem ini melibatkan enam modul iaitu maklumat am, perbandingan, pencarian, pengiklanan, gambaran maya dan email. Sistem Maklumat Penapis Air dibangunkan untuk mengeksplotasikan keunikan dan keistimewaan penapis air kepada para pengguna melalui unsur-unsur maklumat dan multimedia yang seimbang. Sistem ini mewujudkan suatu suasana maya supaya membolehkan para pengguna mendapat maklumat dan memahami stuktur komponen-komponen di dalam mengenai sesuatu penapis …

Sistem Penjanaan Soal Selidik Secara Atas Talian (Spssat), Mohamed Yahya Nurul Laili

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem Penjanaan Soal Selidik Secara Atas Talian (SPSSAT) ini adalah satu sistem aplikasi yang dapat menjanakan sebarang format dan bentuk soal selidik secara automatik dengan pengoperasiannya dijalankan secara atas talian. Sistem ini juga dapat menjadi satu sistem pemprosesan data dan pengurusan dokumen. Tujuan SPSSAT ini direkabentuk adalah untuk memberikan kemudahan kepada pengguna, penyelidik dan sebarang organisasi tertentu untuk menjalankan aktiviti yang berkaitan dengan soal selidik. Sistem ini berobjektifkan supaya dapat menjadi satu tapak I platform untuk memudahkan pengguna untuk menghasilkan soal selidik secara atas talian. Ia turut membenarkan pengguna untuk merekabentuk pelbagai pilihan format dan bentuk soal selidik yang dapat …

Sistem Map Interaktif-Universiti Malaya, Abdul Rahman Mohammad Ghazali

Student Works (2000-2009)

Proses pembangunan Sistem Maklumat Berasaskan Komputer telah berubah sejak 20 tahun yang lepas, Peningkatan yang dramatik dalam teknologi perkakasan iaitu dari segi memperbaiki kemampuan dan mengurangkan kos telah diperhebatkan dan meningkatkan keperluan untuk memperbaiki proses pembangunan sistem maklumat. Sistem Map Interaktif yang dibangunkan adalah sistem komputer yang mampu untuk memberi panduan dan maklumat dan dapat dipersembahkan dalam bentuk yang padat serta ringkas. Oleh itu, saya bercadang untuk membangunkan Sistem Map Interaktif dan pengkhususan saya adalah Universiti Malaya (Selatan). Sistem Map Interaktif yang akan dibangunkan ini adalah ditujukan kepada para pelawat serta mahasiswa/i di universiti dan khasnya untuk pelajar tahun pertama …

Pangkalan Data Perintah-Perintah Am Dan Pekeliling Kementerian Pendidikan, Kok Foong Chen

Student Works (2000-2009)

Ministry of Education Malaysia's Web Based Circular Information System (MOE's WBCIS) ajms to enhance the level of searching and_ retrieval of government docunents by providing an effective and faster way of locating circulars on education. In an effort to achieve Vision 2020~ MOE's WBCIS takes the initiative from the implementation of to upgrade the quality of document delivery in and efficient and effective manner. The objectives of MO E's WBCIS, among others, are to help the MOE staffs to manage the circular system easily and fast The system provides an interactive and effective search engine that enables users to search …

Kiosk Pintar Haji Dan Umrah, Othman Nor Azlina

Student Works (2000-2009)

Perkataan kiosk web dan kiosk multimedia mungkin sudah biasa didengari bagi mereka yang sering mengikuti perkembangan tekno1ogi. Wa1au pun kiosk-kiosk tersebut direkabentuk supaya ianya menepati spesifikasi terkini, namun ia tetap dikenali sebagai kiosk biasa kerana kebolehannya hanya terhad untuk memberikan maklumat kepada pengguna. Justeru itu, sejenis lagi kiosk yang menggunakan pendekatan kepintaran buatan bakal diperkenalkan dan ianya diaplikasikan di dalam perlaksanaan ibadat haji dan umrah bagi umat Islam. Bersesuaian dengan pendekatan yang digunakan, sistem ini dinamakan Kiosk Pintar Haji dan Umrah. Kiosk ini menggunakan konsep Case-based Reasoning dan memuatkan pengetahuan yang diwakilkan oleh kes-kes ke dalam sistemnya. Konsep Casebased Reasoning …

Sistem Maklumat Kenderaan Universiti Malaya (Simkum), Idris Kamariah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Proses pembangunan Sistem Maklumat Berasaskan Komputer telah berubah sejak 20 tahun yang lepas. Peningkatan yang dramatik dalam teknologi perkakasan iaitu dari segi memperbaiki kemampuan dan mengurangkan kos telah memperhebatkan dan meninggikan keperluan untuk memperbaiki proses. Oleh itu, saya mencadangkan untuk membangunkan Sistem Maklumat Kenderaan Universiti Malaya (SIMKUM). Sistem ini merupakan satu sistem baru yang akan mempercepatkan dan memudahkan pengurusan maklumat dan pendaftaran kenderaan di Universiti Malaya. Sistem ini juga dibangunkan untuk menggantikan sistem pengurusan lama di mana sistem yang sedia ada sekarang adalah secara manual. Di dalam sistem ini terdapat ciri-ciri menarik yang ditawarkan. Antaranya ialah kemudahan pendaftaran, keselamatan, penyemakan …

Research Issues In Human-Computer Interaction In The Web-Based Environment, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Sid Davis

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The Internet and WWW are revolutionizing our daily lives and the way business is conducted. Since 1997, the Web has gradually evolved into a true economy and a new frontier for business. In this new Internet age, the design of a quality Web site is critical to the success of businesses. To attract and retain visitors, Web sites need to be human-centered, easy and quick to navigate, and speak the visitor’s language. User experience with the Web site is also important. The experience should be in line with the user’s goal and should feel natural to the user. Unfortunately, principles …

The Partial Evaluation Approach To Information Personalization, Naren Ramakrishnan, Saverio Perugini

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Information personalization refers to the automatic adjustment of information content, structure, and presentation tailored to an individual user. By reducing information overload and customizing information access, personalization systems have emerged as an important segment of the Internet economy. This paper presents a systematic modeling methodology— PIPE (‘Personalization is Partial Evaluation’) — for personalization. Personalization systems are designed and implemented in PIPE by modeling an information-seeking interaction in a programmatic representation. The representation supports the description of information-seeking activities as partial information and their subsequent realization by partial evaluation, a technique for specializing programs. We describe the modeling methodology at a …

Sistem Perpustakaan Maya (Pengkhususan Kertas-Kertas Teknikal), Talib Noor Azimah

Student Works (2000-2009)

Perkembangan teknologi pada masa kini begitu pantas berlari mengikut arus peredaran zaman. Pelbagai perisian sistem yang telah dihasilkan mengikut keperluan, kehendak dan kesesuaian masa. Keadaan inilah yang telah memungkinkan pembangunan sebuah Sistem Perpustakaan Maya (SPMA) di mana ia merupakan sistem bermaklumat secara atas talian (online). SPMA merupakan sebuah sistem di atas talian yang memainkan peranan bagi membekalkan pelbagai sumber maklumat berbentuk kertas teknikal (technical paper) seperti yang dikehendaki oleh pengguna. Sistem ini dibangunkan di atas talian adalah bertujuan supaya ia boleh dicapai oleh para pengguna dari seluruh dunia. Matlamat utama sistem ini adalah bagi membantu memudahkan pengguna di dalam mencapai …

Webwordpro Version 2.0 The Web-Based Word Processing System, Koon How Lin

Student Works (2000-2009)

Nowadays in this era of information technology computerized word processors have become a very common and essential need to everyone. From leisure to serious manner, it is used for typing letters, assignments, reports, paperwork and etc. It also enables people to keep data and manage it in a more secure and efficient way. With the current popularity and expansion of the Internet, Web-based applications become a new platform for the evolution of business system. Well, from this point, come the idea of providing the word processing system through Internet or online. WebWordPro 2.0, which is the upgraded version of Web …

Pakej Pembelajaran Rangkaian Komputer Dan Komunikasi Data (Rangkomdata), Jusoh Noorakmal

Student Works (2000-2009)

Penggunaan perisian yang berbentuk CD atau web semakin mendapat perhatian dan sambutan terutamanya dikalangan pelajar. Namun begitu pakej pembelajaran terutamanya dalam Bahasa Melayu untuk pelajar lPT masih lagi berkurangan di pasaran Menyedari hakikat inilah ia mendorong saya untuk membangunkan pakej pembelajaran bermultimedia seperti ini. Berdasarkan kepada kajian yang dijalankan, sambutan dari kalangan pelajar adalah begitu menggalakkan. Projek yang dibangunkan ini, adalah bertajuk Pakej Pembelajaran Rangkaian Komputer dan Komunikasi Data atau panggilan ringkasnya Pakej RANGKOMDATA Bermultimedia. Perisian ini adalah diharapkan dapat rnembantu proses pembelajaran para pelajar jurusan sains komputer dan teknologi maklumat yang mengikuti kurus ini. Pakej RANGKOMDATA ini adalah satu …

Structured Web Databases, Shuang Li

Dissertations and Theses

Recent research has focused on the cooperation of web server and database server software in the deployment of data-intensive web sites. That work has focused either on storing data in a database that can be used to generate the contents of a web site, or on providing interfaces and gateways to enable queries to be invoked from web pages and executed at external database servers.

This thesis describes the implementation of a prototype of the Data Web system that is being implemented at Portland State University. With Data Web, a user can embed in a web page virtual tables that …

Pembangunan Laman Web Bermultimedia Bagi Sebuah Sekolah, Kaliappan Malathi

Student Works (2000-2009)

Laman web sekolah ini merupakan sebuah laman web bermultimedia yang mengandungi unsur-unsur multimedia seperti bunyi, grafik, imej dan animasi. Objektif utama laman web ini adalah untuk membangunkan satu sistem multimedia yang bermutu tinggi, mengetahui keputusan peperiksaan awam, mengetahui maklumat ahli-ahli organisasi sekolah iaitu guru-guru dan kakitangan lain kerana ke semua maklumat ini telah dimasukkan dalam pangkalan data, memberi maklumat tentang aktiviti tahunan dan ko-kurikulum sekolah. Dengan adanya laman web ini, maklumat dapat diperoleh tanpa mengunjungi sekolah tersebut. Secara amnya, laman web ini mengandungi semua maklumat tentang sekolah tersebut seperti sejarah sekolah, organisasi sekolah, pencapaian akademik, kurikulum, kokurikulum, aktiviti tahunan, kemudahan …

Homepage For Medical Image Processing, Nawot Nomansia

Student Works (2000-2009)

Homepage for Medical image Processing is a web site development project done to fulfills the requirement of Bachelor of Information Technology course. This homepage is about the current research in medical image processing area done by the research group in Neural Network Lab at Faculty of Computer Science and Intonation Technology University of Malaya. The architecture of this homepage based on client-server architecture model. Nowadays, many researchers use the Internet to storing, retrieving, and displaying information in a networked environment. Those who offer information through the Web must establish a homepage, a text and graphical screen display that usually welcomes …

Kolej Kediaman Tun Ahmad Zaidi Homepage, Wing Kin Leong

Student Works (2000-2009)

By the middle of 1990s, World Wide Web had transformed the online world tremendously. Users from all over the world were able to access and select varies types of information from the online world through the system at hypertext called homepage. Through homepage, there are hyperlinks that can link to all the other homepages thus enrich the interaction and developments of humans-to-humans communication on the Web by enabling users to distribute executable content electronically. Because of these reasons, the first Kolej Kediaman Tun Ahmad Zaidi (KKTAZ)'s homepage was created. The Kolej Kediaman Tun Ahmad Zaidi (KKTAZ)'s homepage was an attractive …

Web Page For A Book Vendor, Surjan Singh Amber Jeet Singh

Student Works (2000-2009)

Web pages have become a common tool for communication and advertising the service and product available in a company with the increasing popularity of the Internet facility in Malaysia. In this project I created web site for Syarikat First Agency and Syarikat First Agency Sdn. Bhd. a book vendor and publisher for two different purpose. The first the web page should promote the vendor as a representation U.S and U.K. publishers dealer and distributor for the foreign and local customers. This \web will also deal in marketing and distribution of books for the South East and Far East region making …

Personalizing The Gams Cross-Index, Saverio Perugini, Priya Lakshminarayanan, Naren Ramakrishnan

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The NIST Guide to Available Mathematical Software (GAMS) system at http://gams.nist .gov serves as the gateway to thousands of scientific codes and modules for numerical computation. We describe the PIPE personalization facility for GAMS, whereby content from the cross-index is specialized for a user desiring software recommendations for a specific problem instance. The key idea is to (i) mine structure, and (ii) exploit it in a programmatic manner to generate personalized web pages. Our approach supports both content-based and collaborative personalization and enables information integration from multiple (and complementary) web resources. We present case studies for the domain of linear, …

Multimedia Kuronthogai, Sellappan Mohan

Student Works (2000-2009)

Project Multimedia Kuronthogai is a Final Year Project (Thesis) offered by the Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology. This project was divided into Thesis I and Thesis II and supervised by my project supervisor Assoc. Prof. Dr. N.Selvanathan. The moderator for this project is Cik Hannyzzura Affal. Kuronthogai is a one of the Tamil anthologies. It contains 401 poems. The theme of these poems is love and the verse are of the five lands (tinais) in appropriate time. Most of the Tamil literatures are in the form of a book. Only few of them are in Multimedia environment. It …

Design And Implementation Of A University Department Website, Margaret M. Rick

Graduate Research Papers

The website design cycle consists of four important components: (1) planning, (2) production, (3) implementation, and (4) operation. Within these components are a variety of vital tasks ranging from defining the objective and audience to conceptualizing the site, determining content, and creating, testing, and revising the site. Numerous rules or accepted principles guide the design process from color and font selection, to graphic creation, to site navigation layout. Once created, a website must be maintained: content should be updated and outside links verified on a regular basis. A site that is not maintained or kept current is of no benefit …

The Quest For The Gnarl, Rudy Rucker

SWITCH

The article describes some of the author’s own image-generating computer programs that he describes as “gnarly”. He began writing a simple spirograph program based off simple sine wave function called Spiro. Later transitioned into writing with C and better programs using more nonlinear feedback. Where Spiro is based on a simple sine wave function, Vine uses a nested sine function: the sine of the sine. The need for a more complicated computational approach lead to iteration and parallelism. Julgnarl uses Iteration and Calife uses parallelism. Calife shows one-dimensional cellular automata: spaces in which virtual computers are lined up like beads …

Gnarly Rantings About The Hacker And The Ants, Rudy Rucker

SWITCH

The article is an excerpt from Rucker’s book “The Happy Mutant”. It begins with his reflection of his career with GoMotion. He discusses the relation that he saw between design and cyberspace. Later he discusses his experience with a game a colleague found on the net: a virtual world where player is an ant. He talks about the struggles he goes through in this virtual world because of game difficulty and poor visuals. He ties it all in with how the Silicon Valley works in a similar way, and is filled with hackers and programers all needing each other to …

A Graphical Knowledge Level Approach For User-Database Interaction, K. Tan, H. Chan, Keng Siau

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The authors propose a novel user interface, the Graphical Knowledge Level interface, for user-database interaction. This interface addresses two of the current research problems: the semantic inadequacy of the relational model and the logical data dependence of the relational languages. The interface is more user-friendly than the SOL interface and the Universal Relation interface, as it employs the graphical approach. The semantic inadequacy problem is alleviated by using an enhanced entity-relationship model. This data model includes abstraction concepts such as aggregation, generalization, and categorization. A formal, high-level Graphical Knowledge Level Query Language, GKQL, which provides for both logical and physical …

The Computer As A Collection Management Tool, Suzanne B. Mclaren, Hugh H. Genoways, Duane A. Schlitter

University of Nebraska State Museum: Mammalogy Papers

Since the mid-1960s, discussion of computer use for information retrieval in museum collections has usually focused on research potential. Much attention has been given to the idea of networking and the ability to access data across great distances. However, the potential for collection management usage has also proven to be a legitimate rationale for computerization. Numerous aspects of collection management are discussed for which the computer may be employed. Topics include creating cross-reference files, updating taxonomic and geographic information, pinpointing mismatched specimens, locating lost and uncataloged material, controlling loan procedures, producing accession files for insurance purposes, curating all or part …