Papers by Ameer Fathima Musfira
The Qualitative Report
Digital Storytelling (DST) is defined as telling stories using digital means. It has been initial... more Digital Storytelling (DST) is defined as telling stories using digital means. It has been initially applied for diverse purposes, including in community development, therapeutic benefits, and as an aid in teaching and learning. DST has recently been broadly used on social media platforms for marketing, running campaigns, journalism, and much more. However, no comprehensive systematic or thematic review of DST in social media has been conducted. Accordingly, this paper aims to provide a thematic review of DST in social media. The thematic review was carried out on 50 articles published from 2016 to 2021. These 50 discrete studies were selected because they met the inclusion criteria based on the research question of this review. The thematic review used ATLAS.ti as a tool to assist the review process. The results indicated that DST in social media was appropriate for marketing, including branding and advertising. Besides, using DST in social media over the years for education, traini...
Thematic review paper, 2022
Digital Storytelling (DST) is defined as telling stories using digital means. It has been initial... more Digital Storytelling (DST) is defined as telling stories using digital means. It has been initially applied for diverse purposes, including in community development, therapeutic benefits, and as an aid in teaching and learning. DST has recently been broadly used on social media platforms for marketing, running campaigns, journalism, and much more. However, no comprehensive systematic or thematic review of DST in social media has been conducted. Accordingly, this paper aims to provide a thematic review of DST in social media. The thematic review was carried out on 50 articles published from 2016 to 2021. These 50 discrete studies were selected because they met the inclusion criteria based on the research question of this review. The thematic review used ATLAS.ti as a tool to assist the review process. The results indicated that DST in social media was appropriate for marketing, including branding and advertising. Besides, using DST in social media over the years for education, training, professional development, community development and services, running campaigns, and therapy has significantly impacted these areas. Across the research articles, including case studies and essays, authors have reported several benefits of using DST in social media.
Technology revolution has been occurred rapidly over the last past thirty years According to the ... more Technology revolution has been occurred rapidly over the last past thirty years According to the moor’s law power of microprocessors double every eighteen months. And also a parallel increase can be observed in some other technological sectors such as network communication, bandwidth, storage, capacity. These remarkable trends make us to predict that in future computer will become considerably smaller, cheaper and more pervasive. These result a creation of small things that can access the internet in order to optimize their intended purpose. It gives birth to new technology trend called “Ubiquitous computing”. Ubiquitous computing is an emerging technology that brings new dimensions to distributed computing. It uses a wide variety of smart, ubiquitous devices throughout an individual’s working and living environment. When it comes to ubiquitous computing, mobile objects and mobile agents are forerunners. Mobile agents are considered a very interesting and emerging technology to deve...
Technology revolution has been occurred rapidly over the last past thirty years According to the ... more Technology revolution has been occurred rapidly over the last past thirty years According to the moor's law power of microprocessors double every eighteen months. And also a parallel increase can be observed in some other technological sectors such as network communication, bandwidth, storage, capacity. These remarkable trends make us to predict that in future computer will become considerably smaller, cheaper and more pervasive. These result a creation of small things that can access the internet in order to optimize their intended purpose. It gives birth to new technology trend called "Ubiquitous computing". Ubiquitous computing is an emerging technology that brings new dimensions to distributed computing. It uses a wide variety of smart, ubiquitous devices throughout an individual's working and living environment. When it comes to ubiquitous computing, mobile objects and mobile agents are forerunners. Mobile agents are considered a very interesting and emerging technology to develop applications for mobile and distributed computing. Since they present a combination of unique features, such as their autonomy and capability to move to remote computers to process data there and save remote communications, they can be widely used in ubiquitous computing. Many mobile agent platforms have been developed since the late nineties. In this millennium era they are now influenced in many aspects of technology such as localization of technology, internet connection, voice recognition etc. This literature review focuses on Mobile agent platforms in ubiquitous computing applications and systems.
The integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) with the traditional mode of te... more The integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) with the traditional mode of teaching has always been a practice in higher education institutes of Sri Lanka since the past. This has created potentially a greater impact in teaching-learning practices. Virtual Learning Environment, a web based application has emerged as an essential, yet powerful tool in the higher education system of Sri Lanka in the recent days. This platform has evolved from Moodle/LMS in order to assist teachers and students to cope up to the global standards. This paper has assessed the opinions of students under various perspectives in incorporating the Virtual Learning Environment into their traditional mode of studies in the context of South Eastern University of Sri Lanka. The study found that the students are strongly positive towards the use of VLE to undertake their studies than the traditional method of teaching-learning process. Further, this paper also suggested that the essential measures are to be taken in order to increase the active participation of VLE since it is highly beneficial to both the parties involved.
The use of Islamic religious mobile apps has become common in the digital era, where various Isla... more The use of Islamic religious mobile apps has become common in the digital era, where various Islamic apps to enhance the life of a Muslim is widely used all over the world. Among the used applications, "Athan" is one of the wellknown apps used by 5 million Muslims globally. A study to identify the opinion and perception of the users is essential in many aspects. Hence this paper identifies the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of the "Athan" mobile app. A quantitative survey has been administered through the lens of the Technology Acceptance Model as the framework for the study. The study reveals that the "Athan" app users are positive towards the usefulness of the application, and it has not been impacted by the respondents' sociodemographic diversity.
The number of users accessing an ecommerce website is generally high. The performance of websites... more The number of users accessing an ecommerce website is generally high. The performance of websites to cater to the increased number of concurrent users is inevitable to manage the growing online business needs. The architecture of the company's website should be robust enough to manage the expected traffic on heavy load. The inability to support the growing customer needs would return frustration that leads to heavy business loss. Therefore, it is mandate for e-commerce websites to perform load testing to assess the robustness of their architecture to support scalability. This study features the assessment of e-commerce websites for its performance based on throughput, availability and response time. The study utilizes Apache JMeter to perform load testing on selected five ecommerce websites in Thailand by emulating customer behaviors at heavy load levels. The paper proposes a methodology that could help future testing practitioners and researchers to perform load testing efficiently.
Advancements in software engineering and software development processes have paved the way for th... more Advancements in software engineering and software development processes have paved the way for the introduction of new processes and the use of advanced tools for these processes. Automation of software processes and the use of automated tools have gained popularity in the recent past. Thus, the use of automated tools for software testing in ensuring the quality of a software system or application has also found a reach in recent times. Although the importance of these tools has been studied by various researchers in the field, a lack of knowledge on the selection of tools among the practitioners is a challenge. It is because of the availability of an abundant number of tools and the absence of clarity about the tools. Hence this study primarily focuses on investigating the automated tools while trying to identify the better tools for security testing of applications or systems. For this purpose, five e-commerce applications that are popular in Malaysia have been chosen. Also, five tools identified after a thorough study on the tools available for executing automated testing have been used to identify the best tool out of the chosen ones. Although the research work involves studying e-commerce applications available in Malaysia, this research at no instance intends to analyse the applications, rather the tools only.
Since Sri Lanka is an agro country, its economy is mostly based on agriculture and agro based ind... more Since Sri Lanka is an agro country, its economy is mostly based on agriculture and agro based industries, animal husbandry and other agriculture based businesses. In Sri Lanka, Agriculture
International Journal of Advances in Scientific Research and Engineering, 2018
The usage of information technology (IT) has been injected in many industries across the world. O... more The usage of information technology (IT) has been injected in many industries across the world. One of the main industry which have been highly impacted by information technology is the banking industry. Internet banking is the picture perfect talk of the present future. It provides numerous benefits to consumers to ease the usage and to reduce the cost of transactions, either via Internet, telephone or other electronic devices. Internet Banking has become one of the most essential technological aspects in the financial industry. Internet banking as the provision of financial services and markets using electronic communication and computation. practically, Internet banking consists of internet payment also called as e-payment, internet trading, and internet banking. Sri Lankans are now enjoying Internet banking facilities via the internet, where it was first introduced in Sri Lanka in March 1999.[1] In some part of Sri Lanka customers are still in their inception. For instance, banking users in Eastern province are less adopted to internet banking compared to the banking users in the western province. Sri Lankan banks are trying to popularize the concept of Internet banking among their customers gradually. Compared to some developed and developing countries, the usage of the Internet to involve in banking activities is at an initial stage in Sri Lanka and it is mainly restricted to checking bank balances. This analytical research tries to analyse the pattern of using internet banking and the factors affecting customers to use internet banking in Sri Lanka. And this research has identified that internet banking is still in its infant stage in Sri Lanka and it experiences a dramatic growth from 2010.
International journal of health sciences, 2022
The goal of this study is to look at the digital competence and ICT literacy of school teachers i... more The goal of this study is to look at the digital competence and ICT literacy of school teachers in Sri Lanka's Nintavur division. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) knowledge is now considered to be a vital skill for teachers at all levels, in addition to their knowledge of their subject. Recently, there has been a lot of attention paid to digital competence and ICT literacy because it is seen as a way to improve society’s level of knowledge and, in turn, the country’s knowledge index. When teachers evaluate their own digital competence, they need to think outside of the box and look at things as to how they can get information on the internet, use digital devices and apps, share content on the internet with other people, and how well they can manage information using different digital sources. In light of this, this preliminary study looks into what extent school teachers in the Nintavur division are digitally competent and how well they use ICT. This study employed...
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