Development of a web based virtual forest environment to increase threatened plant species awareness

This paper reports on the development of a web based virtual forest environment to raise the awareness of threatened plant species in particular for the family of Dipterocarpaceae. Tropical forests in Malaysia consists of unique ecosystems which are home to flora and fauna including the threatened p...

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Main Authors:	Norul Maslissa Ahmad, Nazlena Mohamad Ali, Ang, Mei Choo
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14159/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14159/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14159/1/33746-109543-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-141592020-02-07T11:13:40Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14159/ Development of a web based virtual forest environment to increase threatened plant species awareness Norul Maslissa Ahmad, Nazlena Mohamad Ali, Ang, Mei Choo This paper reports on the development of a web based virtual forest environment to raise the awareness of threatened plant species in particular for the family of Dipterocarpaceae. Tropical forests in Malaysia consists of unique ecosystems which are home to flora and fauna including the threatened plant species that are listed in the Red List by the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia. However, the lack of awareness on the threatened plant species somehow can jeopardise on the effort on conservation of the forest. A web based utilizing virtual environment were developed that focussed on threatened plant species. User experiments were conducted to evaluate the user acceptance on the developed application. 30 participants were divided into two groups, brochures and web version. Results showed that participants who completed the experiments with web based virtual environment increased their level of awareness as compared to the usage of conventional brochures on threatened plant species. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14159/1/33746-109543-1-PB.pdf Norul Maslissa Ahmad, and Nazlena Mohamad Ali, and Ang, Mei Choo (2019) Development of a web based virtual forest environment to increase threatened plant species awareness. Asia-Pacific Journal of Information Technology and Multimedia, 8 (2). pp. 31-40. ISSN 2289-2192 http://ejournals.ukm.my/apjitm/issue/view/1211
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description	This paper reports on the development of a web based virtual forest environment to raise the awareness of threatened plant species in particular for the family of Dipterocarpaceae. Tropical forests in Malaysia consists of unique ecosystems which are home to flora and fauna including the threatened plant species that are listed in the Red List by the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia. However, the lack of awareness on the threatened plant species somehow can jeopardise on the effort on conservation of the forest. A web based utilizing virtual environment were developed that focussed on threatened plant species. User experiments were conducted to evaluate the user acceptance on the developed application. 30 participants were divided into two groups, brochures and web version. Results showed that participants who completed the experiments with web based virtual environment increased their level of awareness as compared to the usage of conventional brochures on threatened plant species.
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author	Norul Maslissa Ahmad, Nazlena Mohamad Ali, Ang, Mei Choo
spellingShingle	Norul Maslissa Ahmad, Nazlena Mohamad Ali, Ang, Mei Choo Development of a web based virtual forest environment to increase threatened plant species awareness
author_facet	Norul Maslissa Ahmad, Nazlena Mohamad Ali, Ang, Mei Choo
author_sort	Norul Maslissa Ahmad,
title	Development of a web based virtual forest environment to increase threatened plant species awareness
title_short	Development of a web based virtual forest environment to increase threatened plant species awareness
title_full	Development of a web based virtual forest environment to increase threatened plant species awareness
title_fullStr	Development of a web based virtual forest environment to increase threatened plant species awareness
title_full_unstemmed	Development of a web based virtual forest environment to increase threatened plant species awareness
title_sort	development of a web based virtual forest environment to increase threatened plant species awareness
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2019
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14159/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14159/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14159/1/33746-109543-1-PB.pdf
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Development of a web based virtual forest environment to increase threatened plant species awareness

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