ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Developing New Software to Analyze the Emo-Sensory Load of Language
Technology plays a crucial role in fully understanding all aspects of language and uncovering the hidden patterns, such as sense and emotion density in texts. Yet, it seems that remarkable attention has not been paid to the sensory and emotional loads of learning texts as the primary source of learning. This study attempts to present an objective way of analyzing English learning texts from both emotional and sensory perspectives to provide material developers to measure the emotional and sensory loads of the texts. For this purpose, a new kind of software was developed using two datasets; Sensicon and EmoLex. Then as an example, an English course book series, Interchange (5th ed.), was analyzed by this software to determine any probable pattern(s) concerning sensory and emotional loads. The results showed that the dominant sense in these books is hearing at all levels of language proficiency. In the emotion analysis part, the eight basic emotions were categorized as positive and negative emotions, and the results showed a higher frequency of positive emotions. It was also found that the frequency of negative emotions increases at higher levels, resulting in more authenticity.
https://bctjournal.com/article_1_9f6acd750caec6607aca2eb139fdc80b.pdf
2022-06-01
1
13
10.56632/bct.2022.1101
Sense analysis
Emotion analysis
Emotioncy pyramid
Sensory load
Emotional load
Mohammad Hossein
Akbari
akbari1860@gmail.com
1
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
AUTHOR
Reza
Pishghadam
pishghadam@um.ac.ir
2
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
LEAD_AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Development in Omani Higher Education Institutions from the Perspectives of Software Project Managers and Developers
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have recently gained significance among companies, organizations, higher education institutions, and business owners in Oman. Delving into the implementation and success of ERP systems is a time-consuming process and mostly requires longitudinal research. In line with the significance of such systems, we conducted a qualitative study to understand the practices involved in developing ERP systems from the perspectives of the software project managers and developers. In doing so, we interviewed a software project management and development team. The interview included both structured and semi-structured questions. We focused on three factors, including a) the software project managers’ and developers’ viewpoints about the ERP systems development in the HEIs, b) the methods and processes followed by the team while developing ERP systems for the HEIs, and c) the technical and non-technical challenges encountered within the development, implementation, and deployment stages.
https://bctjournal.com/article_3_8e90637bd4a52776261a2e6e55b88ea9.pdf
2022-06-01
14
23
10.56632/bct.2022.1102
Critical success factors
Enterprise resource planning
Higher education institutions
Software development
Software requirements
Ali
Al-Badi
aalbadi@gulfcollge.edu.om
1
Gulf College, Oman
LEAD_AUTHOR
Ashar
Khan
a.khan@squ.edu.om
2
Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
AUTHOR
ORIGINAL_ARTICLE
Understanding the Challenges of Social Media Users: Management Students' Perspectives in Two Asian Countries
The primary objective of this study is to discover the challenges faced by social media users. To this end, the researchers first designed a scale and then asked 272 individuals from Indonesia and Oman to take it. Frequency, percentile distribution, and weighted mean were used to analyze the data qualitatively. The findings reveal that the respondents in two countries spent five hours on their social media, and with its use, they got more than one hundred online friends. Facebook and YouTube were found to be the most common social media platforms used by the two groups, and keeping in contact with their family and friends was the reason that was common to them. While Indonesian respondents highly rated the majority of the positive effects of social media use, the Omani respondents showed that the use of social media affected a lot on their sleeping patterns. In closing, the two groups of respondents had common ideas in some of the indicators utilized in this study.
https://bctjournal.com/article_2_10cff5bb51d8f12cfd9cf5b3accd1789.pdf
2022-06-01
24
34
10.56632/bct.2022.1103
Social media
Reasons
Dependence
Positive and negative effects
Asian countries
Anna
Bocar
anna@gulfcollege.edu.om
1
Gulf College, Oman
LEAD_AUTHOR
Gina
Jocson
gina@gulfcollege.edu.om
2
Gulf College, Oman
AUTHOR