KeeMan’s Complicated Simplicity Blog V9.0

Oh well, I just received a good news from my supervisor, Dr Chen that my paper submitted to Themes in Science and Technology Education (an international refereed journal based in Greece) has been published. That’s about 3 months of waiting after the manuscript was reviewed and accepted.  The title of the paper is Incorporating Kansei Engineering in instructional design: Designing virtual reality based learning environments from a novel perspective. The whole journal which consists of 5 papers is available for $10 euro and should you need a copy of the paper, do email me. I can’t post it online because it is against the copyright rules.

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For the last 5 days, I was at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, taking part in the 3rd International Symposium on Information Technology (ITSim’08) jointly organised by several top IPTA and IPTS in Malaysia, and co-sponsored by IEEE. I was there to present my paper on customer oriented design support system (an on-going project funded by Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovations), together with two other friends who are presenting their papers as well. I was proud to know that out of 650 papers that was submitted, only 280 papers was accepted. I was even happier to note that our papers (the only 3 from Faculty of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development) was accepted with high acceptance score from the reviewers.

As for the symposium, it was a very fruitful experience and we managed to actually meet with some top researchers and IT experts from all around the world. Personally, i’m happy to build up my networking by getting to know some new friends, some with vast experience that actually do not mind sharing their views and knowledge. I must say that the organiser (hosted by UKM) has done a splendid job organising the symposium. Apart from the symposium, all participants were given a free 1-year membership of Malaysian Information Technology Society (MITS), the first professional IT society in Malaysia launched at the symposium.

Oh well, that’s the mini report of the event. Will provide further updates once i’m back in Kuching.

P/s: updating from Cititel, KL.

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Well, it’s been a while since i last listen to a Thai pop music, especially those from Bird Thong Chai, the ever green Thai singer who never looks old despiter his age (50 years old!). So for those of you who are bored and want something to cheer up your day, i present to you Bird ThongChai’s Oh Lah Naw…My Love! Enjoy!

P/s: Ah…i think i better get a chance to visit Thailand again since it’s just across the border. Hmmm…..

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Normally, we won’t be bother to think how much time search engine like Google saves us precious time in completing our daily routine (net-based routines of course) until the internet connection is interrupted or perhaps when Google is down.  So, out of boredom, I set out to conduct a mini research with an aim to answer the following research question: “What life would be without Google and how much time we’d be spending solving our problems?”. To answer these, I chose three key tasks to be examined:

 A) Finding the definition of Exabytes

With Google: I entered “Define Exabytes” and the pages immediately list all available definitions, which include: “A unit of information equal to 1000 petabytes”

Time spent: 1 minute

Without Google: I quickly grab my Oxford dictionary on my desk and was surprised to note that the word didn’t exist and I ran up the stairs asking for another dictionary from my housemates. I managed to get a Longman dictionary and found the definition with a quick flip.

Time spent: 7 minutes

Time saved using Google: 6 minutes.

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No matter what people say about Malaysia…
This is still my home sweet home….

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