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Asia-Pacific Forum
on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 12, Issue 1, Article 6 (Dec., 2011) |
Riaza Mohd Rias received her PhD in Multimedia from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 2010. She is currently employed at the University Technology Mara (UiTM) in Selangor, Malaysia. She has been teaching in the field of Computer Sciences for the last 10 years. Her research interest is on multimedia learning, 3-D visualization, mobile learning and computer science education.
Halimah Badioze Zaman received her PhD degree in Information Science from Loughborough University, United Kingdom, in 1983. She has worked with Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) or National University of Malaysia, since 1983. She is currently a Professor in Multimedia Technology. She is also the coordinator of the ICT niche of the University and Head of the Visual Informatics Research Group. Her research has won various awards both nationally and internationally, in Geneva, Brussels, London, and recently at Seoul, where she not only won a gold medal for her research invention, but also the special WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) award. Her research interest is in 3D multimedia, Multimedia for special learners, Voice Recognition for Visual Impaired learners, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Learning Environments. She is currently President of the Malaysian Information Technology Society (MITS), the first professional IT society in Malaysia and Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Information Technology and Multimedia or JITM ( a bi-lingual journal in Malay and English). She is a member of IEEE.
