42 articles in this issue
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Noor Amiera Alias,Akehsan Dahlan,Azliyana Azizan
Mothers who are having children with SpLD may have changes in their hopes since they may experience many dramatic changes in life circumstances. A semi-structured interview was conducted to explore mother's hopes in providing care children with SpLD. The ... see more
Chun Chieh Lin
The objective of this essay is to examine baseball incubator is facilitated by governance failure of regional policies as opposed to initiating an alternative way of living for indigenous in Eastern Taiwan. With the perspective of regional planning, the d... see more
Ornwiriya Namsawat,Yanin Rugwongwan
According to the problems of excessive consumption of natural resources and the increasing trend of manufacturing across the globe at present, the need for transformation to sustainable consumption and sustainable production has been put on centre stage. ... see more
Karuna Kwangsawat,Yanin Rugwongwan
This article presents the determinant of consumers' socio-economic including personality, attitudes, lifestyle and the physical characteristics of the residence. That determines the consumer's demand for environmentally friendly furniture. This is a test ... see more
Nurain Mohd Talmizi,Halmi Zainol,Suharto Teriman,Nor Eeda Ali
Major challenges of sustainable environment are identifying the community and predicting the behaviour of each community in neighbourhoods. Many local authorities are eager to overcome these issues to improve their sustainability. The research focuses on ... see more
Nor Eeda Haji Ali,Ho Chin Siong,Halmi Zainol,Nurain Mohd Talmizi
Waste management is one of the most challenging problems. This study investigates the influence of household attributes on waste minimisation behaviour in Shah Alam City, Malaysia. Through a household survey, 300 respondents were randomly chosen. Findings... see more
Norizan Mt Akhir,Siti Rasidah Md Sakip,Mohamed Yusoff Abbas,Noriah Othman
The landscape is important in spatial development for campus space. Fundamentally, planting composition generates a character of the outdoor space. It could offer an enormous influence on visual quality, student performance and quality of life. This paper... see more
Charlie Maturakarn,Chumporn Moorapun
This research aims to explore the aspects of design thinking of students from two different curricula: Interior Architecture (five years) and Interior Design (four years) to see what different aspects of design thinking. The research method is a survey ba... see more
Noor Aziella Mohd Nayan,Ahmad Zamir Che Daud,Tengku Intan Baizura Tengku Jamaluddin,Siti Salwa Talib
This study investigated the occurrence of depression, anxiety and stress; and identified the possible stress factors among clinical dental undergraduates. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 127 dental undergraduates from Universiti Teknologi MARA... see more
Pracha Pijukkana,Yanin Rugwongwan
This research is a qualitative study on basic idea sketches between Manual Sketching and Computer Aided Design Modeling (CAD). The result of this research will be to improve or to lead to design idea transferring process; that presents the product sketch,... see more
Sridara Tipian,Antika Sawadsri
There are 48.37% in Thailand, who use wheelchairs, but they can be learned. The percentage of the disabled who are in higher education system only 1.61%. The result of physical factors where are not ready. This research focused study of physical factors a... see more
Azliyana Azizan,Maria Justine,Noor Amiera Alias
Active participation in exercise may help to improve physical and psychological functions for older people. Regretfully, most of them do not engage in long term exercise due to several barriers. This puts them at high risk of may chronic illness that will... see more
Tulika Suchit Gadakari,Jingjing Wang,Karim Hadjri,Junjie Huang
Ageing-in-place is the most common ageing model in China. Therefore, design of age-friendly residential buildings and neighbourhoods becomes an important factor leading to improvement in older people’s health and quality of life. This paper presents the c... see more
Noor Halilah Buari,Nur Izzaty Dian
The association of the awareness and knowledge of diabetic retinopathy with the age and residential area were investigated among selected Selangor populations. A cross sectional study was conducted using open-ended questions. Only half of the selected pop... see more
Noor Halilah Buari,Muhammad Zahir Nur-Zahirah
As a person read, the eyes move to extract information from the printed text. Reading became disturbed when obstructed by the scotoma. The effect of reading and eye movement were investigated between different locations of simulated central vision scotoma... see more
Maria Myron Charlotta Sengke,Paramita Atmodiwirjo,Yandi Andri Yatmo
This paper study the visual sphere based on a visual surface from a patients' point of view in immobile condition. Capturing image and calculating region were used to identify visual sphere as a collected scene, that established a coordinate system, based... see more
triandriani mustikawati,Yandi Andri Yatmo,Paramita Atmodiwirjo
This paper proposes a spatial narrative approach in understanding the wayfinding spatial experience of hospital visitors in a building environment. Narrative actions involved in wayfinding journeys are explored and analysed using tours and maps reading (d... see more
NUR IDZHAINEE HASHIM,NORAJLIN JAINI,ELY ROUZEE JAMALUDDIN,FIRDAUS CHEK SULAIMAN
Recreation activity based on recreational forest has risen as one of the important industries in the Malaysia economy. This area has a great potential for future development predominantly in this modern trend where people are more concern about living a h... see more
Firdaus Chek Sulaiman,Ely Rouzee Jamaluddin,Norajlin Jaini,Nur Idzhainee Hashim
Marine tourism is one of the main factors contributing to the growth of the tourism sector in Malaysia. Malaysia is among the countries that have the most beautiful islands with diverse marine life. It is attracting visitors to enjoy the beauty of t... see more
Nurhazirah Hashim,Ahasanul Haque
Guest experience studies and the consequences towards behavioral intention play a significant role in the success of resort industry. Hence, this study attempts to investigate the relationship between service experience equity and behavioral intention at ... see more
Ramly Hasan,Noriah Othman,Faridah Ismail
Trees in urban areas are an invaluable resource. Careful consideration and attention should be given to tree species selection. “Right tree at the right place” is the key to get the benefits offered by the tree. Objectives have been formulated as follows ... see more
Nuraisyah Chua Abdullah,Ramzyzan Ramly,Muhammad Izwan Ikhsan
Registration of land title evidences an indefeasible ownership. However, many people have become victims of fraud. Due to the increase in fraud and the weaknesses of the registration system in the country, this study aims to provide solution to the proble... see more
Junainah Binti Mohamad,Suriatini Binti Ismail,Abdul Hamid Bin Mar Iman,Thuraiya Binti Mohd
The current practice of heritage property valuation is using sale comparison approach. However, there is a limitation in applying this approach for heritage property valuation because of unavailability of market evidence. Therefore, the aim of this ... see more
Rozrinda Roslan,Shahrul Yani Said
Fire is one of the horrific events that could lead to death and total destruction of buildings. Many great buildings were lost on fire. Many towns and cities were rebuilt because of great fires. Heritage buildings are recognized as over 50 years of age an... see more
This paper examines the behaviour of vendors and purchasers indirectly through the judicial decisions in Malaysia, Australia, and the United States. The decided cases illustrate that buyers are still indolent in their duty to conduct pre-purchase inspecti... see more
Houses bought through sub-sale contract are of varying quality. The “caveat emptor” doctrine compels the purchaser to make a thorough investigation in a sub-sale house purchase. The “as is” clause posits that the house is sold based on its existing condit... see more
Mohd Azren Hassan,Hazlina Hamdan,Jamalunlaili Abdullah,Yusfida Ayu Abddullah
To have a quality of life is the ability to own a house. Housing affordability affects the quality of life concerning household well-being and economic security. The research sets to evaluate the location housing affordability for the low-income group bas... see more
Jingjing Wang,Karim Hadjri
This paper explored the role of cohousing model in the UK and discussed the benefits and limitations of cohousing model by exploring cohousing residents’ motivation and daily living. Through case studies in the UK, semi-structured interviews were carried ... see more
Anila Ali,Roslinah Mohamad Hussain,Mujid Abdullah
Saliva cortisol response was investigated from the motorcycling exposure for approximately 50 minutes between low and high noise-sensitive (Weinstein Noise Sensitivity Scale) young riders (19-25 years). The results showed significant difference (p < 0.... see more
Mohamed Ikhwan Nasir Mohamed Anuar,Raziah Ahmad
The development of the urban highway in and around the city has created vast quantities of left over spaces that seldom integrated into formal planning and design. Vague on purpose, the interstitial spaces formed from these concrete “rivers” are referred ... see more
Suwaibatul Islamiah Abdullah Sani,Nurhayati Khair,Junainah Mohamad
Infrastructure development is fundamental to the success of a country to achieve the status of the developed nation. However, the development made is deemed to be unsuccessful without a high culture of maintenance to maintain the existing infrastructure. ... see more
Anak Agung Ayu Suci Warakanyaka,Paramita Atmodiwirjo
This paper attempts to reveal the importance of the everyday temporal living space on the street as the agency to improve the quality of life in the city. The temporal living space is the collective public space that is produced by the local inhabitants a... see more
Hazlina Hamdan,Nurul Shakila Khalid,Nurul Faizah Baba
Well-designed of an urban park is one of the best ways to achieve the city sustainable development and contributes to the quality of life in many ways. Central to this argument is the claim that the variables need to be considered and thus, this research ... see more
Olga Nauli Komala,Evawani Ellisa,Yandi Andri Yatmo
This paper explores eating out space by reading urban ingredients. The aim is to understand what characterizes eating out space in urban context. We conducted fieldwork and observing the physical and non-physical elements related to eating out space at Pa... see more
Noriah Othman,Rabiatul Adawiyah Latip,Mohd Hisham Ariffin,Noralizawati Mohamed
Urban farming is seen as a sustainable practice with the social, economic and urban environment benefits. Despite the efforts by the government, there is lack of public participation in urban farming activities and challenges in sustaining urban farming p... see more
Achmad Hery Fuad,Yandi Andri Yatmo
Picnic Activity plays a role in enhancing the quality of life of urban residents. The objective of this research is to reveal spatial mechanism and taxonomy of urban spaces through spatial experience. We use affordances from Gibson (1986) as a theoretical... see more
Nattha Savavibool,Chumporn Moorapun
Colours and the spatial properties of the workplace are primarily visually conveyed. The aim of this study determines how colour, area and height influence space perception. 80 interior designers participated in this experiment to evaluate the sixte... see more
Huichin Huang,Shenglin Elijah Chang
Daxi is a famous historical town of north Taiwan, because of the preservation of the historic buildings of streets. It began to build the home identity of the locals from the 1990s. By the community participation shown the ancient culture of the town succ... see more
Nur Aresya Ahmad Najmee,Noor Halilah Buari,Rabiatun Mujari,Muhammad Irwan Rahman
The number of presbyopia is increasing worldwide with highly reported on an inadequate correction, which can reduce the visual satisfaction. A survey was conducted to study the level of vision satisfaction between the quality of vision and symptoms report... see more
Chanon Tunprawat,Yanin Rugwongwan,Wichitra Singhirunnusorn
This research was to study the environmental perception of the difference of personal factors. Sixteen environmental problem issues were used to study. The research instrument used in this study was the measurement of perceiving levels using Likert scale ... see more
Ahmad Zaidin Othman,Akehsan Dahlan,Suleiman Murad
Flood disaster disrupted routine and performance in daily activities. Disengagement from performing daily activities have a negative impact on health leading to decrease the quality of life. Women were tied with the social norms of having to take care of ... see more