Understanding the evacuation mechanism has been important subject nowadays in order to model the simulation on the pedestrian behavior in crowd evacuation for the case study of fire emergency scenario in the building. Almost two decades the interest of Social Force Model (SFM) in pedestrian traffic increased significantly as a microscopic model to have a realistic simulation model. The social interactions between the pedestrian is emergent phenomena and very hard to capture, rare and evasive maneuvers in order to avoid collisions between the agents or so called as pedestrians. SFM has been chosen to simulate and modeling the case study based on the crowd dynamic, pedestrian dynamic and evacuation dynamic.
The increasing number of people with hearing-impaired in Malaysia attracts to produce a variety of technologies, which can assist the deaf people in carrying out their tasks in everyday life as normal people. New technology can help to decrease the difficulty that hearing-impaired people faces in daily life to use the information services like normal people. Thus, this paper focuses on: i) developing a new multimedia courseware for preschool students with hearing problem, and ii) comparing the deaf student's learning performance before and after using the courseware. Four modules were developed for e-MSL courseware consist of alphabets, numbers, words and quizzes with colorful text, animation, sounds, video and pictures using Malaysian Sign Language (MSL). Sekolah Rendah Pendidikan Khas (SRPK) Indera Mahkota II, Kuantan has been chosen as the case study for data collection and for investigating the student learning performance on the courseware. The survey results show that 100% of the respondents have agreed that using e-MSL courseware managed to reduce the student learning time more than 80%. The result has indicated that students have shown better learning performance using e-MSL compared to traditional learning.
Institutions of higher learning such as universities have been positively influenced by the internet which has facilitated learning and teaching. Likewise, this same internet can also support student lecturer appointments, but currently students and lecturers are faced with issues such as finding free timeslot, difficulty of students to meet supervisor and issues related to managing appointment operations. Therefore, this paper develops a multi-agent architecture and a web-based agent appointment scheduling system to support students and lecturers in managing appointment scheduling in universities. The agent-based appointment scheduling system was implemented as a web system integrated by multi-agents to facilitate students in finding available timeslot, resolving difficulty of students to meet supervisor and addressing difficult of managing scheduled appointment records by lecturers. The usefulness of the agent-based appointment scheduling system was evaluated by collecting data using questionnaire from randomly selected respondents. Furthermore, Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) was employed to analyse the questionnaire data using descriptive and exploratory factor analysis. Findings from the survey reveal that the developed agent-based appointment scheduling system practically supports students and lecturers in scheduling appointments.
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