An Indoor Navigation Support for the Student Halls of Residence using Augmented Reality: A Design Perspective

Augmented Reality (AR) technology has become increasingly popular due to its potential use in an indoor environment. AR technology enables virtual information, such as navigation instructions, to be merged into the actual environment via a mobile screen. Using an AR-based Indoor Navigation speeds uptime while also being interactive in searching for a particular building location. Every year when new semester students enrol in the university, some students will have difficulty finding a particular location on the campus. The most searched for building upon arrival at the university is the student halls of residence. While searching for it, students waste time asking others for information or looking for a nearby campus map. Therefore, this project investigates the requirements needed for an AR-based indoor navigation application to be applied within the student halls of residence and identifies technical issues through a small-scale prototype development within a small navigational area. Seventy-one students participated in the feasibility study by responding to a set of questionnaires related to the Student Residence AR indoor navigation application. At the same time, four users with and without previous experience with AR applications evaluated the prototype application. The results identified that the more the students have difficulty searching, the more they require additional time to reach their destination and seek help from others, an excellent reason to implement the Student Residence AR indoor navigation. In addition, the prototype evaluation results discussed issues related to arrow path confusion, distance accuracy, assistive guideline, and software development challenges in AR development that could be beneficial to future developers and researchers.

Soji Project: Virtual Campaign And Distribution Of Hand Sanitizer From Local Commodities To Street Vendors

The SOJI project is one of activity dealing with community empowering and services with the topic "Training on Local Commodity-Based Hand Sanitizers and Natural Disinfectants". This activity is carried out virtually using online media because it is in a pandemic era and is required to carry out remote activities to reduce social contact. SOJI has three main activities in the form of a virtual campaign which is carried out by educating the public about hand sanitizers through social media, making hand sanitizers natural ingredients from local commodities in each student residence, and distributing hand sanitizers made from natural local commodities for free while also educating the importance of cleanliness hand to the street vendors (PKL). The purpose of this activity is to first increase the knowledge and awareness of street vendors and the community about the importance of using hand sanitizer as an alternative to maintaining hand hygiene, secondly to provide information to the community on how to make hand sanitizers made from natural local commodities. The benefit of this activity is to educate street vendors and the general public so that they are more aware of the use of hand sanitizers as an alternative to hand hygiene supervision and the community can make hand sanitizers made from natural local commodities. The achievement obtained from the virtual campaign was the total number of likes in the form of infographics (4 contents) were 912 likes, while two video contents reached 1171 total views over 1 month period.

Eco-Feedback for Food Waste Reduction in a Student Residence

Eco-feedback aims at increasing awareness of resource use to encourage conservation. A growing area of concern in sustainable living is food waste, and many new institutional waste receptacles incorporate waste sorting and recycling instructions for waste management. However, little attention has been paid to the design of encouraging awareness of waste in the home, particularly at the point of food waste. We explored the design challenges and effectiveness of novel eco-feedback techniques at the point of food waste through an in-situ study in a university residence. Our E-COmate system captures and visualizes domestic food waste data for more readily comprehensible and accessible information within a home environment embedded in an existing waste bin. Four E-COmate smart bins were introduced, deployed and evaluated for 8 weeks at a student residence in Canada. The aim of the study was to see whether a system like E-COmate could impact food waste patterns and awareness, and if so, to what extent it engages consumers. To explore its impact, a mix of methods was adopted. Waste audits were conducted to explore waste changes. Retrospective interviews were carried out to gain insights in residences' reflections and motivations. We show that E-COmate had a positive impact on participants' awareness of and behavior toward their food waste. Participants who had E-COmate installed in their kitchens showed overall a significant decrease in food waste and in particular a decrease of almost 32% in edible or once edible food waste, and a 69% decrease in generated compost waste during the last 2 weeks compared to the first 2 baseline weeks. Furthermore, while our control group showed an increase of 244% of waste of starches and grains toward the last 2 weeks (i.e., the end of term) compared to the 2 baseline weeks, the intervention group only showed an increase of 4.5% in waste of grains and starches. Eco-feedback further engaged residences in reducing food waste practices starting at the grocery store (e.g., by buying in smaller portions). In sum, eco-feedback as provided by E-COmate had positive impacts on reducing food waste. These findings are a result of increased awareness, the constant presence and immediacy of E-COmate served as a reminder, and their understanding of how much they actually waste as a group. Their awareness was reflected in how they adapted their shopping behavior as one way to reduce waste at home.

Sheep and goat welfare in Croatia: Assessing veterinary student attitudes

Research into the veterinary perception of animal welfare is becoming ever more relevant. Following previous studies on Croatian veterinary students? attitudes and opinions towards farm animal and pet welfare, the present study assessed their attitudes towards sheep and goat welfare, focusing on the year of veterinary medicine study and area of student residence. The questionnaire survey involved students of all six years of the integrated undergraduate and graduate study programme at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. First-year students filled out the questionnaire twice, before and after having attended the animal welfare subject. The questionnaire consisted of two sections. The first section included questions on student demographic and experiential characteristics, whereas the second section asked them to define the level of cognition, sentience and welfare compromise in sheep and goats through five-point Likert scale questions. Study results revealed that students agreed that sheep and goats have cognitive abilities and feelings, but they neither agreed nor disagreed about their welfare compromise. There was no significant difference in student responses according to years of study or between first-year student responses before and after having attended the animal welfare subject or according to areas of student residence. These results could suggest poor student interaction with small ruminants and, therefore, help expand the respective curriculum.

Peranan Peserta KKN Tematik Dalam Meningkatkan Kepatuhan Penggunaan Masker Pada Masa Pendemi Covid-19 di Kota Kendari

The use of this mask has an important role in anticipating Covid-19 virus. If the community has knowledge about the use of masks, the community will also be obedient in the use of masks. Compliance is to describe the positive behavior of the people shown by using. Through this Thematic Community Service Program, the community can know the benefits of using masks in preventing Covid-19. the method used in the integrated community service activities of Thematic KKN is the method of socialization, the method for the environment of student residence, the method of media networking and reporting methods.Thematic KKN takes place in the city of Kendari, Sulawesi Tenggara