Thesis A Requirement Model of Local News WEB/ WAP Application for Rural Communities Ra’fat Ahmad Ali Al-msie’deen

1. A Requirement Model of Local News WAP/ WEB
Application for Rural Communities
Presentation By:
Ra’Fat Ahmad Ali Al-msie’deen
800339
Supervisors:
A.P. Dr.Wan Rozaini bt Sheik Osman
A.P.Dr. Chek B.Derashid
College of Arts and Sciences, 2008

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o Rural is an adjective. Which identify the people who live in these areas, in
another words its the life outside of a big countries or the city (Rural
Communities, 2008).
o The communities can define as, the people living in an area, also mean the
area itself (Rural Communities, 2008).
o Urban the mean of urban is the people those who live in the big towns or the
cities.
o Many people in the rural community have the mobile phone; in fact 88% of
Malaysian people have mobile phone (MCMC, 2007).
Introduction

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o For this study it is important to identify and determine the requirements
model, which used to gathering and analysis the requirements for any
study (Requirements Modeling, 2008).
o A requirement modeling can be used to reduce the time and cost that
need to develop the large or the complex systems by determine the
requirements to make the system able to work (Darrell, 2008) .
o The WAP can define as the open international standard for application
layer network communications for different communication fields,
which its aim to provide and support the users with the internet
accessing from a mobile phone or PDA (WAP, 2008).
Introduction cont.

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Problem Statement
 Many rural communities do not have access to the ICT .
 The traditional way to read the local news from the newspaper/ television
is not always available in this communities.
 Some communities may be included people who don't know the local
language of this communities. So I support my prototype with languages
options; include: English, Malay, and Arabic.
 Traditional ways to publish news between the people in some
communities ;such as: mosques, public announcements etc. All these
ways to publish the news might not be feasible because the majority may
not be meeting.

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• What are the requirements for rural community news application?
• How to evaluate the proposed application?
Research Question

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 To design a requirement model for the local news WAP / WEB
application using the unified modeling language (UML).
 To develop the prototype.
 To test the prototype and it’s usability.
Objectives

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Scope of The Research
 This Study focuses on the designing of the requirements model to the rural
community news in Kampung Changkat Setol area, the selection of this area
because of the nearest destination from UUM, otherwise this area do not
provide the TC for the people, and the majority of the people in this area can
not access to the Telecenter in another far places.

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Significance of the Study
 This study is important for the rural community in the Kampung Changkat
Setol area where provides them with opportunities to access the local news
from mobile device in any time and anywhere quickly and easily, the user
can see the local announcements, local news (Agricultural and Education
news……), the persons who died or married in this area, and the users can
add news to this application using mobile devices.

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Literature Review
1. The Rapid Growth of the Mobile Phone in Malaysia:
 Hand phone users by urban and rural sector in Malaysia.
 Hand phone users by ethnicity in Malaysia.

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Literature Review cont.
1. The Rapid Growth of the Mobile Phone in Malaysia:
 Hand phone users by nationality in Malaysia.
 Hand phone users by gender in Malaysia.

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Literature Review cont.
2. The WAP Protocol Stack:
― According to figure 2.1, the WAP layer stack contains the following:
 Wireless Application Environment (WAE).
 Wireless Session Protocol (WSP).
 Wireless Transaction Protocol (WTP).
 Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS).
 Wireless Datagram Protocol (WDP).

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Literature Review cont.
3. Tele-centers:
― Telecentres are physical space that provides public access to information and
communication technology (Riley & Gomez, 2001).
4. Requirements Model:
― The requirements model aim to define the functionality that the system should
offer (Jacobson et al. 1992).
― Requirements modeling will improve the quality of systems because it
improves the quality of the specification (Darrell, 2008).

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Literature Review cont.
5. Applications of WAP in the rural community:
 Mobile device in the learning:
― Mobile learning can help students to select the type of information that is
needed in their studies. And also help the administrator of a school to monitor
the students, and they can get real time feed back from their staff and students
on certain things (Nor et al, 2006).
 How will life change in the future mobile information society?
― This study focused on enhances of the information society in the rural of
India, and present using WAP technology to achieve the flexible
communicates between the people in this area (Ashok, 2008).

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Research Methodology
― Research methodology is a systematic way to solve the research problem.
― The research methodology that used in this study is the General
methodology. (Vaishnavi & Kuechler, 2007).

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Research Methodology cont.
 General Methodology Phases:
Awareness of
Problem
choosing the domain /Understanding of the problem to solve it/ Data
gathering.
Suggestion In order to develop a well-design for local news WAP/WEB application for
the rural communities, I am use Unified Modeling Language-UML.
Development The system prototype developed through the ASP.NET technology and
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to build the prototype database.
Evaluation Two techniques to evaluate and test the M-Rural Community News system:
Use case testing: to minimize prototype from bugs and errors.
User Testing: questionnaire.
Conclusion The WAP/WEB news application for the rural community are developing in
order to enhance the services in this areas.

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Analysis And Design
 Use Case Diagram:

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WEB pages
 Login page.
 Main page.
 News page.
 Rural photo page.

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WEB pages cont.
 Login page.
 Main page.
 News page.
 Rural photo page.

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WEB pages cont.
 Login page.
 Main page.
 News page.
 Rural photo page.

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WEB pages cont.
 Login page.
 Main page.
 News page.
 Rural photo page.

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WAP pages cont.
 Login Page.
 Main Page.
 Read News.
 Upload News.

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WAP pages cont.
 Login Page.
 Main Page.
 Read News.
 Upload News.

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 Login Page.
 Main Page.
 Read News.
 Upload News.

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WAP pages cont.
 Login Page.
 Main Page.
 Read News.
 Upload News.

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Usability Testing Result
 Most of the points about the kind of the information that the rural people
looking for was focus on the local news, which presented 78%.
 Most of the points about the facilities to get the news, focus on the mouth to mouth,
which presented 60%.
 The evaluation of the benefit and the user satisfaction was highest agree that
mobile can provide the benefit and easy to use by those people (85%).

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 The main aims of this study are to develop the prototype , and to design the
requirement model for Mobile News using UML .
 This prototype will help the people in the rural community to access
different news about this area at any time by using their mobile phones
Conclusion

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 This research could be extended in the future to include other applications
that can be computerized in these communities such as: marketing of
agricultural products, development a local homepages to provide useful
and interesting information for the rural residents, and sending messages
from the administrator (SMS) to the rural to inform him/her about the
important news.
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30. A Requirement Model of Local News WAP/ WEB
Application for Rural Communities
Presentation By:
Ra’Fat Ahmad Ali Al-msie’deen
800339
Supervisors:
A.P. Dr.Wan Rozaini bt Sheik Osman
A.P.Dr. Chek B.Derashid
College of Arts and Sciences, 2008