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Travelling has been known as one of the top-rated activities people do during their leisure time. In this digital time, people usually research before visiting a new place to avoid unpleasant events and to have a well-planned trip. Due to the complexity of search engine browsers, people have been switching to designated travelling applications. Travelling applications should be designed by taking into consideration user’s needs and requirements; and usability. This research aims to design a travelling application based on a user-centred design approach and compare its performance on different platforms. Two prototypes of travelling applications were designed and evaluated; web-based and mobile-based. Then, System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire was used to evaluate the usability of the two prototypes. Pearson correlation coefficient test and t-test were used to analyses the data collected from the questionnaire. The results showed no statistically significant difference in SUS scores for both prototypes, which indicates that the participants do not prefer any of the prototypes more than another one.

An institutional repository (IR) is one of the resources available in most university libraries that have attracted external publishers, search engines and social media to link, share and index IR content. The traditional citation-based indicators of a publication may not reflect the IR quality and have led to the creation of new indicators such as webometrics or web metrics. This study aims to analyse and explore Malaysia’s public university IR visibility, the numbers of an external link, page count, PDF count and URL web mention. We utilised backlinks web crawler and web search engine to collect raw data. A visualisation was created using the force-directed graphing method to interpret the IR network in the webspace. This study revealed that two research universities, Universiti Malaya (UM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), dominate web visibility based on webometrics indicators. All non-research universities are at the bottom of the rankings. This study shows institutional repositories from research universities are more visible in academic social networks and digital library sites. In contrast, non-research universities need to improve their visibility by mapping the universities’ IRs websites through hyperlink exchange and collaboration activities between each university and promoting the university publication to the academic social network sites.

Hypertension is currently rising steadily among the world population. The first level of screening to know whether one is suffering from hypertension is essential as this lays the foundation for the actual diagnosis. This research details the user interface design and usability evaluation of the hypertension management guideline. The proposed mobile application prototype assists people in screening themselves with regards to hypertension based on symptoms. This prototype also acts as a sharing platform for hypertension patients to help them share their concerns and advice within the related online community. The eye-tracker experiment was used to support the visual strategy of the prototype design. In studying the usability of the mobile application, an experiment carried out with two groups of people, of which one group of people have hypertension. In contrast, the other group of people do not have hypertension. An independent-samples t-test conducted to compare the user performance scores using the proposed prototype. Based on the usability study, both user groups understood and used the applications with ease. However, the findings revealed there was a significant difference in overall scores for hypertension patients and non-hypertension patients. The findings of this study could help software developer design an effective application for hypertension guideline tool for monitoring health and well-being.