Universiti Teknologi MARA
User Centered Design Principle:
Safety Mobile Application
Siti Nurasyikin Binti Mohamad Tamin
Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for Master of Science Information Technology (MSc IT)
Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
January 2015
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CANDIDATE'S DECLARATION
I declare that the work in thesis was carried out in accordance with the regulation of University Technology MARA. It is original and is the results of my own work, unless otherwise indicated or acknowledge as reference work. This thesis has not been submitted to any other academic institution or non-academic institution for any degree or qualification.
I, hereby acknowledge that I have been supplied with the Academic Rules and Regulations for Post Graduate. University Teknologi MARA, regulating the conduct of my study and research.
Name of Student Student ID No Programme Faculty Thesis Title
Signature of Student Date
Siti Nurasyikin Binti Mohamad Tamin 2013431504
Master of Information Technology Computer Science and Mathematics User Centered Design Principle:
Safety Mobile Application
Jan 2015
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ABSTRACT
The Lack of awareness of personal safety is a reason why some of people take easier of self-defense. Personal Safety is a freedom from physical harm and threat, aggression, assault causing bodily harm and sexual harassment. While nowadays, the numbers of users having mobile phone is a must and rapidly increased. Hence, it can be used efficiently for personal safety security protection purpose. This study present prototype for user interface safety mobile application. The purpose of this study is to design user interface consideration of User-Centered Design Principle. The design user interface also comply common safety feature by comparing existing safety mobile application features. The research aim is to propose appropriate user interface design for safety mobile application. A prototype of the user interface design were made based on the design requirement obtain through review articles, journals, websites and interviews and also based on the sketches made in early development of the design. The prototype was then improvised in order to provide effective and efficiency design user interface for safety mobile application.
Keywords: User Interface, User-Centered Design, Mobile safety application, Personal Safety
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Alhamdulillah, all the praise and gratefulness to Allah for giving me strength to finish this research. Without His blessing, this project could not have been completed. I appreciate to everyone who involved in my research by giving advice, help, and support.
Firstly, I would like to convey my appreciation to my supervisor, Dr Fariza Hanis binti Abdul Razak for her invaluable knowledge, comment and recommendation on how to enhance my research. I would like to say thanks to my beloved family especially to my mother, Pn. Rosnaini bt Takrep, to my siblings for all their support likes giving the financial support, encouragement and some advice.
A special thanks to my boss, En. Esabirin Abd Aziz for his kindness in helping out during this research and always give me moral support help me overcome any stressful moment.
Finally, thanks to my family and friends who gave support to me to do this research. I really appreciate it. It is really valuable to me. I really appreciate it. Thank you very much for the support and guidance.
Thank you, may ALLAH bless all of you.
UiTM Shah Alam 2014,
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ABSTRACT ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS iv LIST OF TABLES vii LIST OF FIGURES viii CHAPTER ONE 1 1.1 Research Background 1
1.2 Problem Statement 3 1.3 Research Aim 3 1.4 Research Questions 4 1.5 Research Objectives 4 1.6 Research Scope 4 1.7 Research Significants 5 1.8 Research Design Summary 5 1.9 Research Organization 8
CHAPTER TWO 9 2.1 Research on Personal Safety 9
2.1.1 Awareness of Safety 9 2.1.2 Crime in Malaysia 10 2.2 Research on User Centered Design 12
2.2.1 Ease of Use 12 2.2.2 Paper Prototypes Method 15
2.2.3 Wireframe Prototypes Method 16
2.2.4 Usability Principle 17 2.3 Research on Mobile Application 18
2.3.1 Mobile Application Overview 18 2.3.2 Design Features of Existing Safety Mobile Application 19
2.3.3 Summary on Top Ten Existing Mobile Application Features 27
2.5 Conclusion 28
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