• A Study of Children Engagement and Focus During Handwriting in VR with a Haptic Device 

      Zakraoui, Jezia; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Salah, Moutaz; Alja'am, Jihad ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Engagement and focus of children during the handwriting process are essential factors for language learning and concepts acquisition. Handwriting for young children is challenging because it needs large motivation, great ...
    • Effects of full/partial haptic guidance on handwriting skills development 

      Teranishi, Akiko; Mulumba, Timothy; Karafotias, Georgios; Alja'Am, Jihad Mohamad; Eid, Mohamad ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      It has been shown in previous studies that haptic guidance improves the learning outcomes of handwriting motor skills. In this paper, we present a comparison between full guidance and partial guidance using a haptic learning ...
    • Tag-based personalized recommendation in social media services 

      Rawashdeh, Majdi; Alhamid, Mohammed F.; Alja'am, Jihad Mohamad; Alnusair, Awny; El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb ( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Article)
      Users of ambient intelligence environments have been overwhelmed by the huge numbers of social media available, thus identifying the social media tailored to the user?s need is becoming an important question to be discussed. ...
    • Toward An Intelligent Informative System to Determine Locations Paths in Doha City 

      Alja'am, Jihad; Hassan, Shagra Ali; Burshaid, Lulwa; Ali, Arwa; Kaseem, Suad ( IEEE , 2008 , Conference Paper)
      Tourists and new comers arriving to Doha city, the capital of Qatar, need always to know about specific locations (i.e., tourist sites, hotels, schools, universities, shopping centers, hospitals, health centres, mosques, ...